MGM expects Super Bowl to be even bigger for the company than F1.
Richard N. Velotta
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Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
Executives said some areas of the property weren’t ready in time to properly train staff members to provide the level of service it wanted to for guests.
A Chicago-based company says it is buying Vegas.com because it believes in the Las Vegas live entertainment market.
When thousands of race fans converge on Las Vegas later this month, it presents a huge economic opportunity. But some local residents still hate the idea.
The Venetian and Palazzo are modifying their table game smoking policies to something similar to what Wynn Resorts Ltd. has been doing for years.
With the Formula One course just two miles from the airport and multiple road closures expected, Reid officials are urging travelers to arrive hours before flight time.
Tourism leaders hope the gathering will spur future meetings of multinational corporations here in the future.
Bally’s Corp., which operates the Tropicana, sees short-term pain, but long-term gain with its stadium project with the relocated Oakland A’s baseball team.
Nearly two decades after the start-up, Fontainebleau is on the verge of being licensed to operate on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip.
Checkers, Monopoly and Clue trail chess in Nevada, according to a study of Google searches by World of Card Games.
Crews at The Venetian are building a special platform for guests to view this month’s Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix, but gondoliers are still performing inside.
Somebody ripped some holes in screens attached to the overpass glass designed to block views of the Formula One race course.
Hotel occupancy dropped from the same month last year, but room rates remained high and convention attendance continued to soar, the LVCVA said.
While several Southern Nevada gaming submarkets showed declines from a year ago, the Strip gaming win continued to churn by collecting $741.2M from gamblers.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority board approved the special temporary surcharges for the day surrounding next month’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.