Las Vegas came in as the top destination for singles and No. 2 for couples in a recent TripAdvisor survey.
Tourism
Fashion entrepreneurs, listen up.
After a successful 2014 event, organizers of SHOT Show have decided to further commit to Las Vegas.
When all was said and done, 39.67 million visitors came to Las Vegas in 2013, down 0.1 percent from the 39.73 million people who came to the city in 2012, which was a record. The previous high was 39.2 million visitors in 2007.
Super Bowl weekend is expected to ring up some super numbers in terms of tourism. The game betweeen the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos is expected to draw 292,000 visitors, up 2.5 percent from last year.
Friday is the beginning of Chinese New Year, a 15-day celebration rich with tradition and festivities, and one of Las Vegas’ top three annual celebrations.
A sudden surge in domestic travel helped McCarran International Airport close out the year with a relatively strong 4.1 percent passenger gain in December.
Wynn Resorts Ltd., the casino company that expects to open its Wynn Palace resort on Macau’s Cotai Strip during the first half of 2016, reported fourth-quarter earnings Thursday that easily beat analyst expectations. And the company’s revenues from its two Macau casinos increased by double-digits.
The World Market Center is in the midst of the 2014 Winter Las Vegas Market, bringing together professional buyers and sellers of furniture, gifts and home décor.
Southwest Airlines Co. is expanding beyond the continental United States with flights to the Caribbean beginning July 1.
Call some big cities by their nicknames, and most folks know just where you mean.
This weekend, expect to see costumed sports fans playing loud music amid an array of international flags as the fifth annual USA Sevens rugby tournament rolls through Las Vegas.
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is expanding its relationship with Marriott International, John Unwin, the resort’s chief executive officer, said Thursday.
About 13 Nevada-based companies are putting it all out there this week, in an attempt to catch that special someone’s eye.
The first few months for the UNLV stadium board members have been like a pregame warm-up. But now it’s game time for the 11-member team of hotel-casino executives, university system regents and local officials. Time to start delivering — and absorbing — public-policy stadium hits.