Business-to-business transactions will be the focus of Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s new venture into digital gaming and the company has hired Davis Catlin to lead the effort.
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Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
If the A’s ultimately move to Las Vegas, the team likely will need to draw from the millions of visitors who annually come to Las Vegas to assure the team’s financial success.
LVCVA President and CEO Steve Hill is likely to get a $15,292-a-year raise at Tuesday’s meeting of the agency’s board.
A colossal entertainment lineup is giving Las Vegas the opportunity to have big tourism weekends back to back. But how long can it be sustained?
LVCVA President and CEO Steve Hill, who didn’t get a raise or bonus last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, will be considered for more compensation Tuesday.
After a competitive bid process. R&R was selected for the lucrative five-year contract, but it will get an assist from New York-based Grey Global for social media work.
Critics of Gov. Steve Sisolak’s COVID-19 health and safety policies enforced by gaming regulators spent 45 minutes urging board mask and vaccination policies be rescinded.
The 323,000-panel array located in the desert north of Las Vegas will supply electricity for 36,000 rooms in 13 Strip resorts when it’s activated Monday.
It’s unclear whether more rooms, a hotel tower, food and beverage or something else will be added to the $4.3 billion resort and when it will be built.
With the luck of dragons and lions behind it, Resorts World Las Vegas is ready to achieve even greater heights for the resort that opened its doors Thursday night.
Thousands celebrated Thursday during the opening of the newest hotel in Las Vegas, the $4.3 billion Resorts World Las Vegas. It’s the first new resort on the Strip since The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas opened in 2010.
The Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday unanimously approved fines against Mohegan Sun Casino Las Vegas and Country Club Auto Spa and also OK’d Elko and Ely race dates.
President Scott Sibella says Resorts World Las Vegas is Asia-influenced, but not Asia-themed and surprises await guests when they visit the property.
Architect Paul Steelman says there’s a lot to love about the design of Resorts World Las Vegas, but credits customers, associates with making the finished project shine.
Resorts World Las Vegas will feature a cash-free casino management system and a video wall that can be seen for miles.