An MGM Resorts spokeswoman said, “MGM Resorts is updating many of our offerings as we prepare to welcome guests back, and that includes implementing free parking.”
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MGM Resorts has terminated positions heading up esports, marketing and advertising.
MGM Resorts International has reportedly laid off several high-level executives in sweeping moves Friday, including a quartet of hotel presidents.
MGM Resorts International is converting the Las Vegas Village and Route 91 Harvest music festival site into parking for events at Allegiant Stadium, and also a community and athletic center.
Jenn Michaels, MGM Resorts International Senior Vice President of Public Relations, was inducted among a field of 100 nominees across the country.
Mandalay Bay President Chuck Bowling says, “For every bad story you heard there are three stories about the humanity of Las Vegas.”
MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren’s position remains that if Park MGM is successful (and he expects it to be), “We might look at doing similar things, but there is not any specific project in the works yet.”
Derek Stevens has gained priceless promotional value with his NCAA Tournament gambit. Before the tournament, the aggressively loyal Michigan grad bet $25,000 on the Wolverines to win the championship at 40-1 odds.
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson announced Friday that his partnership in Virgin Hotels had snapped up the Hard Rock Hotel.
In his reign as the architect of the Vegas mega-resort, Wynn merged his personal wealth and his zeal for business with his passion for live entertainment.
Jon Gray was known to hang with such stars as Kanye West and Jay-Z at the Palms a decade ago. Today he’s responsible for reenergizing the hotel-casinos nightlife spaces.
Scott Kreeger worked at resorts on and off the Strip for more than two decades, opening Red Rock Resort and steering SLS Las Vegas for more than two years.
Lady Gaga has played Cosmopolitan with Tony Bennet in December 2014, and Wynn Las Vegas as part of a CBS-TV special honoring Frank Sinatra. She’s back at Wynn again Dec. 30.
Saying it is tired of being used as a free self-parking garage for competing hotels, the officials at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas have announced they, too, will charge guests to park at the resort.