The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is trying something it’s never tried before — reaching out to potential visitors with humorous Thanksgiving and Christmas TV ads.
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Beginning in 2021, organizers of the Las Vegas Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon will add a spring race on a Saturday night in April and expected to draw more than 15,000 participants.
Within walking distance of 20,000 Caesars Entertainment hotel rooms, the new Caesars Forum, capable of accommodating 10,000 people, will open its doors in March.
The $32 million in renovations on the Fremont Street Experience’s Viva Vision canopy are set to debut on New Year’s Eve during the “America’s Party Downtown” event.
The Madison Square Garden Company is spinning off its sports business, but the corporate restructuring won’t have any impact on the MSG Sphere at The Venetian project.
The former Las Vegas tourism boss and two others in the Southwest Airlines gift card investigation were never processed at the Clark County Detention Center.
A second Rock ’n Roll Marathon appears to be heading to the Las Vegas Strip in 2021.
While the record for visitor volume set in 2016 is safe, three other tourism indicators are close to historic highs in 2019 with three months of data to go.
For the more than 160,000 expected to attend the SEMA show, it’s all about cars, but vehicle data gathering will be a hot topic at the co-located AAPEX show that begins Tuesday.
The twice weekly flights are carried out on an Airbus A330-200 aircraft which fits 293 economy and 21 premium economy seats.
Nevada casinos had luck on their side playing baccarat and statewide gaming win eclipsed the $1 billion mark for the fifth time this year.
Some properties are charging three times as much for a room the night of Dec. 7 compared with just two weeks later on Dec. 21.
The new three-times-per-week flights launched Sunday, with the maiden flight from Frankfurt Airport arriving to McCarran International Airport to a ceremonial water arch.
The Commercial UAV Expo Americas opens a three-day run in Las Vegas starting Monday at the Westgate. The event focuses on commercial UAS integration and operation.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority gave a hard-hat tour of the construction site at Paradise Road and Convention Center Drive to showcase the building that 14½ months from now will be teeming with thousands of people attending CES in 2021.