While COMDEX was the dominant convention in the 1990s and CES has been huge for gadgets since then, the city’s largest trade show now deals with the automotive industry.
Conventions
The fast-rising sport gets its moment in the sun with its own convention in the convention capital of the world.
Open to the general public and set to take place from July 11 to 17, the convention will be held at the newly renovated Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
The nearly 2-year renovation of 2.1 million square feet of convention space added new tropical designs and technology.
DesignerCon attracts more than 70,000 attendees each year and hundreds more artists and vendors.
Delta Air Lines will introduce an airport signage system that will provide personalized flight information to every individual, thanks to parallel reality technology.
The 315,000-square-foot Expo at World Market Center was topped out by contractors Thursday and is about seven months away from opening for the Summer World Market.
Now that the entire length of a 300-foot drill is in place underground, The Boring Company can churn through dirt at about 100 feet per day as it builds its twin tunnels.
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company switched on its tunnel-digging boring machines Friday to begin work on a $52.5 million people-mover project.
Within walking distance of 20,000 Caesars Entertainment hotel rooms, the new Caesars Forum, capable of accommodating 10,000 people, will open its doors in March.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority gave a hard-hat tour of the construction site at Paradise Road and Convention Center Drive to showcase the building that 14½ months from now will be teeming with thousands of people attending CES in 2021.
To assure the Las Vegas Convention Center expansion will be completed by CES 2021, the LVCVA board of directors approved a contract amendment that increases the cost.
The $935.1 million west exhibition hall under construction at Convention Center Drive and Paradise Road is getting close to its peak of construction.
The organization’s board on Wednesday voted 13-1 to approve a $48.7 million contract with The Boring Company for an underground people-mover transit system.
Attaching a hotel-casino to a convention center was a money loser. That was the conventional wisdom before The Venetian opened on the Strip 20 years ago this week.