A high-speed rail project gathered more momentum Friday as a California agency OK’d two agreements for possible extensions that could make linking with Los Angeles a possibility.
Tourism
The owners of Virgin Hotels Las Vegas are “carefully” looking at its scheduled fall opening after the coronavirus pandemic devastated the economy.
The offers come as Las Vegas’ trade show and convention traffic has come to a standstill because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Foot traffic is expected to spike in Las Vegas this Labor Day weekend.
The action comes two years after the state Ethics Commission opened an investigation of Rossi Ralenkotter as he was about to retire from the influential agency.
Hotel owners are facing an “unprecedented wave” of foreclosures, according to a Tuesday letter from the industry to Congress.
The employees who’ve been furloughed since March will be laid off effective Oct. 15 , HMSHost said.
Anticipating that out-of-state travel won’t pick up until a vaccine is widely available, possibly by next April, the Commission on Tourism wants Nevadans to spend here.
LVCVA executives found there would be no financial advantage to extending the completion date of the $980.3 million project, so it will be finished as planned.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s president and CEO said there are still several steps ahead, but that a meeting on the Monorail may be needed soon.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is asking congressional leaders to allow federal funds for grants to promote tourism in states and cities like Nevada and Las Vegas.
A marketing subcommittee recommends that the state’s Commission on Tourism should spend $300,000 encouraging Nevadans to stay at home with their tourism dollars.
Despite significantly lower passenger volumes at airports across the nation, including McCarran International Airport, security agents are seeing more guns in carry-on baggage.
WeChat — one of the apps President Donald Trump believes could be a national security risk — is no longer being used as a tourism guide for Chinese visitors at McCarran International Airport.
The planned high-speed train system set to run between Las Vegas and southern California will no longer bear the Virgin Trains USA name.