Southern Nevada’s tourism economy took the foot off the gas in September, improving at a rate that wasn’t as robust as it had been in recent months.
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Denver-based Frontier Airlines announced Tuesday that it will start nonstop service between St. Louis and Las Vegas three times a week in January.
Downtown Project Tuesday morning unveiled a new 44-room, nongaming boutique hotel named Oasis at its Gold Spike property, creating the first hotel in its development portfolio.
Eight-year-old Bushwacker, 1,750 pounds of bucking bull, is retiring this year and this week’s 2014 World Finals at the Thomas & Mack Center is the bull’s swansong.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority will embark on a new strategy next year to target three markets expected to be most relevant to the city in the next decade.
Travel industry leaders aren’t hitting the panic button just yet over the Senate’s failure to reauthorize legislation that provides a funding mechanism to market the United States to the world.
In the mood to rent a Tesla Model S? Or the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray? Enterprise Rent-A-Car, the No. 5 car rental car company at McCarran International Airport by revenue in 2014, is expanding by adding a unit of its Exotic Car Collection to McCarran’s Airport Rent-A-Car Center.
Kampgrounds of America is moving its designated recreational vehicle park in Las Vegas from the Strip to the Boulder Highway. KOA and Boyd Gaming Corp. announced an agreement this week to re-brand the Sam’s Town RV park as Las Vegas KOA at Sam’s Town.
A new year’s event, called Evolve Vegas NYE, is 20 months in the planning and has been about all her four-person staff has worked on since the doors of the Las Vegas Gay Visitors Bureau opened in mid-2013.
After more than an hour of debate laced with Old School vs. New Wave marketing strategy, the Nevada Tourism Commission voted 4-2 to recommend Las Vegas-based B&P Advertising and Public Relations to run a $1.75 million winter marketing campaign.
The state’s August gaming revenue numbers may have been lackluster, but at least the tourists came to Las Vegas last month. And in record numbers.
Representatives of the Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort are going to have to wait a few more days for the Nevada Tourism Commission to iron out the details of its $1.75 million winter marketing campaign.
Josh Ripple has been around the sports and entertainment block. Now at 55, Ripple, of Las Vegas, might have his most intriguing position of all — chief operating officer of Life is Beautiful, the three-day music/art/culinary/learning festival in downtown Las Vegas set for Oct. 24-26.
Tesla who? That appeared to be the message at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority meeting.
The Las Vegas marketing communication firm R&R Partners is going international with plans to open an office in Mexico City.