Posted on 08/12/2025 7:49:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Trump administration’s immigration policies are affecting workers and driving, in part, a decline in tourism, including international tourists, to Las Vegas, according to workers and the largest labor union in the state of Nevada.
Visitors to Las Vegas overall dropped 11.3% in June 2025, compared to the same month last year. According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, international visitors to one of the world’s largest tourist destinations dropped 13% in June.
“A lot of departments are having a lot of layoffs,” said Norma Torres, a housekeeper for eight years at Mandalay Bay and a member of the Culinary Union, who has worked in the hospitality industry since she was 18 years old. “In the housekeeping department, the people on call are barely called into work.”
Canada is Nevada’s largest international market. Flair Airlines, a Canadian airline, reported a 55% drop in passengers compared to last year. Air Canada reported a 13.2% drop in passengers from May to June this year to Las Vegas, and one third lower compared to last year.
Trump administration officials have reportedly pushed for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents to arrest 3,000 people a day as part of their anti-immigration agenda. They have subsequently denied that those quotas exist. But they have continued to revoke immigration statuses, delayed action for childhood arrivals, and other humanitarian immigration programs.
“If you tell the rest of the world you’re not welcome, they are going to listen. Our members are telling us that they’re quite nervous, and that’s why they’re calling it a Trump slump,” said Ted Pappageorge, secretary treasurer of Culinary Workers Union Local 226.
But the Ice raids, trade wars with trading partners and fears that rising tariffs will hit the finances of potential visitors are all having an impact...
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I forgot to add, conventions.
Corporations and groups are basically eliminating costly conventions.
They have nice resorts in Oklahoma for the DFW people to go to.
I have read elsewhere that younger people (the ones who spend $) have little interest in the antiquated Vegas schtick. The Rat-pack days are long gone. Sin City has run its course.
Same goes for the impact of the COVID BS on both Vegas and US amusement parks. The chores related to travel are a factor. Vegas is another burgeoning nest of crime (which is apropos, given that the Mob more or less created it), and overbuilding with much more expensive new facilities contributes to all of the rising costs to visitors and the undercapacity problems that lead to financial losses. In the Mob days, their tax evasion from skimming made for a succession of corrupt owners, all of whom claimed to be losing money. Now, they often do lose money, but on a boom-bust cycle.
If you were going to launder money, a Casino is the perfect way to do it..................
Vegas is too expensive and getting to be not very safe. Reason enough not to go there.
Yes, they are not interested in old-fogey singers and that kind of stuff these days...............
Plus, If I want to gamble, I can drive to my local Indian Reservation about and hour away and gamble all I want then go home...........
And they have a motto: Ain't no love in Oklahoma.
Almost makes you think Labor Unions are not for the working man and woman after all.
Oopsie.
I would make the case that Oklahoma could become the new Vegas. It’s more centrally located in the country. A lot of the land is run by the Indians, so you could see a big expansion over what they already have there.
I sense that you are exactly right: there is a general shift in taste, away from Las Vegas-style entertainment and resorts, not only among the younger generations, but others as well. What follows will not be necessarily better, but it will be different.
Not the 115 degree heat everyday …. Definitely not
This article is a stinking pile of lies.
The Sphere is cool. Saw Kenny Chesney there.
Also Vegas is not sustainable. Water is going to become a big issue.
Thats the problem. Fees for everything. Literally everything. Word of mouth and online chat talks about this all the time.
It’s because Las Vegas has become unaffordable.
It is, parking is awful, prices high, and when I saw the U2 3d movie it was about 90% empty. I went just to see how it worked, not for U2 :)
You think it’s bad now in Vegas, wait until Trump frees Cuba, and Havana opens up.
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