Las Vegas is on pace to break its visitor volume record, and a new survey forecasts the city’s travel fortunes will brighten further.
Tourism
The Neon Museum’s new and larger gift shop opens Friday.
Nevada will have an advocate in the American Gaming Association against any effort to revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository northwest of Las Vegas.
Calling the Seven Magic Mountains public art display south of Las Vegas “an incredible boost to tourism,” the Nevada Commission on Tourism voted unanimously Wednesday to spend an additional $150,000 to support it.
For a second consecutive year, McCarran International offered the third-best customer experience among the 31 largest airports in North America, according to the J.D. Power 2016 North America Airport Satisfaction Study released Thursday.
MGM Resorts International has announced the name and opening date of the MGM Grand’s new 12,000-square-foot space designed by and for the millennial generation.
The $1.4 billion Las Vegas Convention Center expansion and improvement project authorized in a special session of the Nevada Legislature in October took a big step forward Tuesday.
Las Vegas tourism officials are about to get cozier with the federal government, angling to get more nonstop airline routes between China and Las Vegas.
A growing number of tourists appear to be dropping two bus lines running along the Strip and hopping aboard rides offered by transportation network companies Uber and Lyft.
Tourism is a copycat business world with few original ideas so it isn’t hard to look at what airlines have done over the past decade to see the Strip parking correlation.
Dragon and lion dancers danced and marched past baccarat players to a staccato beat of drums and cymbals while gamblers snapped cellphone pictures Saturday as Las Vegas’ newest boutique hotel property, Lucky Dragon, celebrated its grand opening.
With nonstop service between Las Vegas and Beijing now available, many in the Chinese community are eagerly preparing for investment opportunities
Hainan Capt. Zhao Zhi Long guided the airline’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner into McCarran International Airport nearly an hour ahead of schedule on Friday and once the nearly 300 Chinese travelers, media and tourism leaders arrived, they were treated to champagne, cake, gift bags, a brief performance by some of the Cirque du Soleil “Ka” cast and a welcoming ceremony.
The inaugural Hainan Airlines flight servicing Beijing to Las Vegas nonstop arrived Friday morning with about 200 Chinese travelers, Chinese media and tourism officials. For many aboard, like Sun Jing Yi, it is their first time coming to the United States.
The inaugural nonstop Hainan Airlines flight from Beijing to Las Vegas that departs Friday is the culmination of many years of ongoing discussions that included branding Las Vegas to Chinese officials in the most tactful way possible, Las Vegas tourism officials say.
