Reno company that operates Atlantis resort fights off bad Sierra weather, COVID-19 variant challenges with higher betting limits at its Black Hawk, Colorado casino.
Richard N. Velotta
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.
The $1.9 billion performance venue’s exosphere is about half-completed.
The LVCVA’s board of directors pledged $275,000 to sponsor the USA Volleyball 2024 Girls Junior National Championships at Mandalay Bay June 28 through July 7, 2024.
The Arizona man is collecting his winnings this weekend after Control Board enforcement agents spent two weeks tracking him down as the winner of $229,368.52.
MGM Resorts International, Wynn Resorts Ltd. and Las Vegas Sands Corp. received the recognition in the hotels, resorts and casinos category.
The Las Vegas company that operates downtown Las Vegas properties, locals casinos and several regional resorts across the country continues to deliver profitable results.
Red Rock Resorts, parent company of Station Casinos Inc. achieved the highest fourth-quarter and full-year net revenue for adjusted cash flow in the company’s history.
Nevada Gaming Control Board members held a two-hour hearing before making their recommendation. The state Gaming Commission will consider the board’s recommendation later this month.
Casinos in the Chinese enclave are hoping for 20,000 tourists a day for the Chinese Lunar New Year that began Tuesday as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect Macao.
The event planned at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center has attracted around 25,000 people with 5,000 brands and 16,000 retailers from 70 countries in the past.
The state’s more than 400 largest casinos won more from players in 2021 than in any year in history. But find out which games give players the best bang for their buck.
Several leading tourism industry categories showed improvement over 2020 levels — but not all of them. The LVCVA said visitation and convention traffic was up in 2021.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, the busiest commercial air carrier at Reid International Airport, continues to navigate the effects of the omicron variant that included a flurry of flight cancellations.
Nevada casinos, paced by those in Clark County, extended their record of consecutive months of gaming win exceeding $1 billion to 10 in December, the Nevada Gaming Control Board reported Thursday.
Tourism is down dramatically in Singapore and Macao, where Sands is the market leader, but company executives remain bullish on those markets.