After months of delays, MGM Cotai, the 1,390-room hotel casino just off Macau’s Cotai Strip, has opened its doors and is expecting massive crowds for Chinese New Year in the next few days.
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The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors on Tuesday unanimously approved a $9.5 million contribution to a $28.5 million upgrade to the Fremont Street Experience video canopy.
If the allegations against Steve Wynn are just the tip of an iceberg, it could create a very tough balancing act for Southern Nevada’s tourism bureau and its use of the familiar slogan “what happens here, stays here,” according to several marketing experts.
Steve Wynn is a smart and charismatic speaker who can paint a vivid landscape of words from his imagination. How could somebody that smart allow himself to be cornered into the position of having to quit now?
More than any other casino developer, Steve Wynn shaped the look and feel of today’s Strip. He brought size and luxury to the corridor, boosted tourism, sparked a megaresort building boom and accumulated billions in wealth.
Steve Wynn’s alleged sexual misconduct will keep some away from staying at his hotels. For others, it won’t make any difference at all.
Eleven Las Vegas resorts made U.S. News World Report’s list of the world’s top hotels, the Washington-based organization reported Monday.
Las Vegas and its $1.9 billion stadium project won’t be forgotten when nine NFL owners and team presidents, together wielding influence over an adjusted Super Bowl bid-selection process, meet in the coming months.
Pat Christenson expects when the Raiders get to Las Vegas, every home game is going to be like Super Bowl Sunday with parties that could include appearances by Raider legends and massive screens showing the action.
Xanterra Parks Resorts is completing the largest upgrade of The Oasis at Death Valley in decades.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority predicts 311,000 people for Super Bowl weekend.
Officials at Muller Construction and the Nevada Foundation for Fair Contracting have argued for weeks whether workers on a Las Vegas Strip construction project were underpaid or overpaid.
Riding a one-time tax benefit of an estimated $74 million, Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co. reported its most profitable quarter, beating Wall Street analysts’ expectations.
It seems that every corner of U.S. Bank Stadium has some meaningful function that provides an advantage to the hometown Minnesota Vikings. It should be no different at the 65,000-seat Las Vegas stadium for the Raiders and UNLV Rebels.
The adult film star who reportedly had a sexual relationship with Donald Trump in 2006 is helping draw more visitors and media to town for the annual AVN Adult Entertainment Expo.