What will be the top tourism and gaming headlines of 2020? Read on for predictions about opening Allegiant Stadium, visitation records and what lies ahead for Las Vegas.
Richard N. Velotta
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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.
Sports betting was one of the few bright spots in November as another decline in baccarat play decreased casino gaming win on the Strip, in Clark County and statewide.
New Year’s Eve rooms are generally the most expensive on the Strip, where eight minutes of fireworks will be launched from the rooftops of seven resorts.
Knowing your mass transportation options, understanding that limited parking will cost a bundle and being prepared to walk a lot will be important to those going to CES.
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.
Following an hour-long hearing, the Nevada Gaming Commission agrees that Steve Wynn remains within its jurisdiction on a five-count sexual harassment complaint.
The MSG Sphere at The Venetian performance venue has the foundation of a stage, seven seating levels and will hit the “equator” when it reaches 108 feet next year.
Jan Jones Blackhurst and Tommy White on Tuesday were reappointed to the Las Vegas Stadium Authority, disappointing dozens of Culinary Union members who supported Geoconda Arguello-Kline.
The chief operating officer of the Raiders subsidiary building Allegiant Stadium had a wide-ranging conversation with Republicans about the venue opening next year.
Terry Miller, who has headed the project management company working with the LVCVA since the project’s inception, thinks it’s important for his name to be on the company.
Robert DeSalvio has been named to lead Genting Group’s two New York properties.
With a Gaming Commission hearing on Steve Wynn scheduled Thursday, questions answered in early 2018 are bound to be asked again: Should Wynn Resorts change its name?
The Nevada Commission on Tourism has recommended two candidates from Northern Nevada to direct the agency that has been without a leader for more than two years.
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.
MGM executive Michael Neubecker, who spent more than eight years in Las Vegas before becoming a top MGM Grand Detroit executive, is returning, replacing Trevor Scherrer.