The Nevada Gaming Control Board is pushing licensees to get workers vaccinated quickly, and they’re responding with some offering incentives like gift cards and paid time off.
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Older gamblers have started to return to casinos as vaccines become more widespread.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board wants casino workers to get vaccinated before occupancy restrictions lift.
Four major Las Vegas casino companies are expanding vaccine efforts. One, Station Casinos, will begin offering vaccines to employees and their families next Tuesday,
Caesars Entertainment will join rival MGM Resorts in offering COVID-19 vaccine to employees on the Las Vegas Strip.
Public health officials have earmarked half of Southern Nevada’s weekly COVID-19 vaccine allocation for public events for workplace clinics to inoculate hospitality workers.
A new Nevada Gaming Control Board notice to licensees reminds resort owners they still have to follow social distancing rules and enforce facial coverings.
Reduced COVID cases, increases in vaccination numbers and the relaxation of restrictions are producing greater optimism that visitors will have fun in Las Vegas.
Some of the casinos are holding out for looser operating restrictions, or more foot traffic. Others have shuttered their doors permanently.
Apollo Global Management is making a multibillion-dollar wager on America’s casino capital and hoping it’s rolling the dice on the way out of a national crisis, not on the way in.
Caesars Entertainment Inc. plans to resume hotel operations seven days a week at Planet Hollywood and The Linq, the company announced in a statement Friday.
It seemed 2020 was going to be a transformative year for Southern Nevada. Then, the pandemic hit. But there’s much to look forward to in the months ahead.
The testing protocols are meant to strengthen health and safety standards and assist tourists from states with strict travel restrictions, according to the companies.
Metrics like foot traffic, gaming revenue and occupancy rates in the Reno area are closing in on pre-pandemic levels ahead of Clark County.
Hotel workers should get an early shot at COVID-19 inoculation, according to the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.