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The clock was ticking on his speed date, but Justin Fantozzi looked cool and relaxed Friday at the Encore at Wynn Las Vegas. Fantozzi wasn’t looking for love. The Goodyear marketing manager was looking for a fruitful business relationship.
Even with increased convention attendance, January’s Las Vegas visitation was slightly down. During the first month of 2013, 3.13 million people came to Las Vegas, down 0.7 percent from January 2012’s total of 3.15 million visitors, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s monthly count.
A day after a mediation session went nowhere, both sides in the taxi drivers strike ratcheted up the pressure amid indications that another cab company also faces labor difficulties. Yellow Checker Star Transportation’s chief operating officer said the company, with the second-largest fleet in Las Vegas, would take a couple of days to identify drivers who walked out and replace them.
Allegiant Travel Co., the parent company of Allegiant Air, said its passenger count on scheduled flights in February was 541,000, up 8.2 percent from a year earlier.
Rosemary Vassiliadis will rank below average among her peers when she becomes Clark County aviation director on June 3 despite a promotion that comes with a nearly 36 percent pay raise.
Speedway Motorsports Inc., parent company of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, saw 2012 fourth-quarter revenues drop nearly 8 percent from the previous year and plans to focus on attracting more families and kids to increase revenue in 2013.
Both sides have been called back to the bargaining table in the third day of the drivers strike against Las Vegas’ second-largest taxi company.
If “The Bachelor” TV show can post Twitter feeds from viewers during broadcasts, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway figures it can offer instantaneous social networking quips at a social media nerve center at this weekend’s NASCAR weekend, featuring guests from Team Lowe’s Racing, NASCAR, Sprint and media churning out real-time comments.
The taxi drivers strike against Yellow Checker Star Transportation entered its second day Monday with no reports of service disruptions amid a relatively light week for conventions.
Representatives of Malaysia-based Genting Group were so sure about spending $2 billion to $7 billion to develop Resorts World Las Vegas on the 87-acre Strip site of the unfinished Echelon, they visited all ends of Nevada to make their pitch.
Consumer confidence in the overall economy and sentiment toward technology both fell again in February, the latest figures released by the Consumer Electronics Association show.
Ads luring tourists for a Las Vegas vacation can show up just about anywhere in America — including near the dugout at historic Wrigley Field in Chicago or behind home plate at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
The Las Vegas arena race drew a new deep-pocketed private competitor Friday when MGM Resorts International said it will partner with a powerhouse arena builder and break ground late this year for a new 20,000-seat arena on the Strip without a nickel of public money.
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