A state board on Tuesday approved a $20.2 million contract with an out-of-state firm to market Nevada to tourists.
Tourism
Lost in the shuffle of Las Vegas’ record-setting visitor volume of 2014 was another trend important to the city: The meetings and trade show industry is back.
More than 300,000 tourists are expected to begin pouring into Southern Nevada Friday night for Super Bowl weekend.
The Nevada Tourism Commission is revamping its annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism into a shorter, meatier annual event focused on attracting international visitors.
This week, nearly a quarter-million people will be in Southern Nevada for 20 events, six of which forecast attendance of 24,000 people or more.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority isn’t satisfied with attracting a mere 40 million visitors to the city in 2014.
One of the nation’s top commercial real estate conferences is renewing a contract that will keep the show in Las Vegas through 2019 with an option to continue through 2022.
The World Financial Group Continental Cup, which set an attendance record of 51,215 over four days at The Orleans Arena in January 2014, will return to the same venue next year.
Las Vegas visitor volume grew 1.4 percent in November, but it seems like a moot point.
Passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport increased for the 15th straight month in November, driven again by double-digit percentage increases in international traffic.
These days, it may not be enough for those in the hospitality industry to simply attempt to broadly market to gay tourists. It’s more complicated than that because of the various niche groups within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
Visitors may see a lot of things in Las Vegas, but Heidi Klum’s naked body on the walls of McCarran International Airport won’t be one of them.
For the past two years, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has said that it would attract a record-breaking 40 million tourists to Southern Nevada, toppling a record that has stood since 2012. Now it’s happened
Nightlife operator Hakkasan Group announced Tuesday it will acquire The Light Group for $36 million, giving the company control over more than a half-dozen Strip nightclub operations.
Several Southern Nevada tourism enterprises got early Christmas presents Wednesday when the Nevada Tourism Commission unanimously approved $414,854 in grants for programs and activities designed to deliver more tourists to rural Nevada.