Coming in this week’s Las Vegas Business Press

HOSTEL MAKEOVER: With traditional tourists growing scarcer in Las Vegas, several local hotels and motel chains are positioning themselves as hostels. In this niche hospitality segment, rooms are cheap and dorm-style and customers are mostly backpackers, typically young international travelers.

TUNNELING VISION: Call it Tonka trucks for grown-ups. A New Zealand-born entrepreneur has launched Dig It, a business that lets customers operate earthmoving machinery for a fee.

EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT: Carter Powersports owner Dave Carter explains why bikers get a bad rap and describes the joy he gets working with the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation and the Las Vegas Ride for Kids.

THIS WEEK'S BUSINESS PRESS POLL QUESTION

An executive from the Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association recently predicted that gasoline prices will continue to rise in Nevada.

Do you think gasoline prices will reach $4 a gallon by Memorial Day?

Answer at www.lvbusinesspress.com/poll

(Polling closes at noon March 9).