Las Vegas-based GES has acquired an Atlanta-based audio-visual production company to expand its ability to produce live events in conjunction with conventions and trade shows or stand-alone entertainment events.
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Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority President and CEO Rossi Ralenkotter will receive a $166,200 bonus for the work he did in the last fiscal year following a unanimous vote Tuesday of the organization’s board of directors.
McCarran International and Henderson Executive airports will receive federal grants that will go toward improvements at their respective airfields, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced Friday.
Guy Seeklus owns nearly 30 camels. About half of those live on his new ranch in Bunkerville, where he operates the recently opened Camel Safari.
Earlier this month, the traveling public was shown once again that it doesn’t take an act of terrorism to create havoc on a city’s tourism economy.
More than 4.1 million airline passengers passed through McCarran International last month, marking the airport’s best June performance since 2007, the Clark County Department of Aviation will report Thursday.
The Nevada Commission on Tourism is embracing a show called “Temporary Australians” as a means to show off Nevada to thousands of viewers half a world away at relatively low cost.
The number of seats airlines fly into McCarran International Airport grew by 1.4 million in the recently ended 2016 fiscal year — sixth best among peer U.S. markets.
Disney World firefighters have been reprimanded for feeding gators in months before deadly attack on toddler.
The top executive of the association that conducts the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is concerned that high hotel rates for the 2017 show could price some conventioneers out of the market.
Gov. Brian Sandoval will extend the life of the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee so that the 11-member group can further evaluate a proposal for a 65,000-seat domed football stadium.
At a special tourism infrastructure meeting intended to narrow the field of prospective stadium sites, the list of potential locations instead grew on Monday.
Going into Monday’s special meeting of the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committeeat UNLV, there’s no panic. But there also isn’t a lot of confidence that everything will get done by July 28.
Rural airport managers strategized Thursday on how to preserve the limited commercial service they have and how to recruit airlines to connect their cities to McCarran and Reno-Tahoe international airports.
Southern Nevada visitor volume showed its first decline in 14 months in May as the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported Thursday that tourist stays for the month were off 3.9 percent to 3.6 million people.