MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment Inc. and Station Casinos are the latest major companies to have gaming floor capacity and social distancing restrictions waived by Nevada regulators. Silverton also got the green light.
Reopening Las Vegas
Wynn Resorts Ltd.’s Las Vegas gaming floors have been given the green light to operate at full capacity, effective Monday.
The Consumer Technology Association announced CES 2022 will take place for four days starting Jan. 5.
Capacity and social distancing rules would be completely lifted once 60 percent of eligible residents have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Two of the shows in the upcoming Broadway Las Vegas series are holdovers from what would have been the 2020-21 season.
Another Las Vegas hotel-casino is getting ready to expand its hotel operating hours.
The state reports that as of July 25, at least 347 visitors had tested positive for the coronavirus either while in the state or soon after returning home.
Cinemark, which operates locally under the Century banner, announced Friday that it will resume business in the valley Aug. 14.
In the month that casinos and resorts were allowed to reopen, leisure visitors arrived, but there were still 70.5 percent fewer of them than in June 2019, the LVCVA said.
“Now that the merger has closed, our operating teams are fully engaged with integrating the two companies and executing on the synergy plans,” CEO Tom Reeg said.
Full House Resorts, a small Las Vegas-based regional casino company, said despite limited offerings due to COVID-19, its Silver Slipper property in Mississippi had the best month in its 14-year history in June “on several metrics.”
The Bellagio and Aria are offering a change of scenery for those sick of working at their kitchen table.
“There’s a lot of moving parts,” CEO and President Jay Snowden said in an earnings call Thursday.
The company is ramping up departments that are “essential to run (the) business,” an executive said.
Gaming regulators noted a gathering in excess of 50 people and a lack of social distancing enforcement at slot machines and table games in the complaint signed Monday.
Ross Mollison says, “The message to the public is, I’m not going to be a problem for you, I’m not going to be a problem for employees and patrons and the governor.”
CBS confirmed that Season 2 of the reality show will air six nights a week from The Cromwell, beginning with a two-hour premiere.
Casinos in Las Vegas were closed most of the second quarter, Encore Boston Harbor was shuttered the entire quarter, while Macao endured stifling border closures.
Red Rock Resorts reported a 77.5 percent drop in revenue for the second quarter but said its properties in Las Vegas have been performing well since reopening.
Having both shows filmed here will remind national audiences that Las Vegas is open for business — and pleasure.
Signs trumpeting coronavirus-safety protocol line the MGM Grand’s 12th-floor hallways: “You may not leave the bubble!” is one.