Vegas is losing their monopoly on Gambling. It’s easier to do it on your phone rather than fly cross country, spend $500/night at Caesars, $200 for a steak dinner, $75 for lunch and $200-300 for a show or $500 for a sphere concert.
And if you can afford anything in the Forum shops you can probably afford to have the items flown in for a private showing.
You couldn’t pay me to go to Vegas, but none of the factors you mentioned can explain a 2025-specific decline in Las Vegas tourism.
I just got back from Iceland and am going to Brattleboro in about a week and I can report to you that businesses in Vermont are suffering as Canadian visits have withered.
Here in the Memphis area, they opened up one in Ark, right across the river, but no free alcohol drinks. You got to pay for them. And the pit bosses don’t give you comps on the spot, like in Tunica.
If I was a drinking man, I would never go there.