Zachary Conine stood among employees, reporters and curious onlookers Tuesday wearing a blue pinstripe suit and bow tie as he cheered the latest step in the two-year redevelopment of the Downtown Grand, formerly the Lady Luck.
Tourism
While Las Vegas marks the Year of the Snake with Chinese New Year celebrations all week, travel officials look to mainland China as a prime target.
Nevada’s average gasoline price has shot up 38 cents in a single month.
At best, it could be another 18 months before any ground is broken on the XpressWest project – the same time frame backers gave the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2009.
CityCenter’s new legal team recast the massive construction defects litigation surrounding the unfinished Harmon Hotel by pulling an architectural and an engineering firm into the case for the first time.
So you’re planning a trip to Las Vegas, but resorts on the Strip, their poorer cousins downtown or one of the scores of name-brand, cookie-cutter places in scattered commercial zones around the valley are not your cup of tea.
Las Vegas, we didn’t quite make it to 40 million visitors in 2012, but we came close.
When all was said and done, 39.7 million people came to the city in 2012, up 2.1 percent from 2011’s final total of
38.9 million visitors, according to the monthly Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority count released Friday. And even though it’s not quite 40 million, 2012 still was a record year for Las Vegas — the previous high was 39.2 million visitors in 2007.
Allegiant Travel Co. continued its patterns in recent months of expanding its flight schedule faster than it attracts passengers.
Frontier Airlines will farm out about 40 full- and part-time employees, its entire presence at McCarran International Airport to a contract vendor.
Southwest Airlines, the market leader at McCarran International Airport, will add a new destination with a once-daily nonstop flight to Flint, Mich., on Aug. 11. Currently, there are only connecting flights between Las Vegas and Flint.
With most of its taxi drivers positioned to go on strike at any time, Yellow Checker Star Transportation has launched a recruiting campaign promising an “exceptional opportunity for career-minded individuals.”
Caesars Palace announced nearly two years ago that it would renovate the second-oldest tower at the Strip resort into a luxury boutique hotel with the help of Nobu Hospitality. The construction walls finally came down this week.
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