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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Tunica, MS tried that and it worked for a little while, till move gambling options opened up. Now you can gamble almost anywhere and the casinos trying to get every penny out of you before you even gamble ain’t helping.
You don’t need to go to Las Vegas anymore to gamble.
DOUBLE BS
TRIPLE BS
THE COST OF GOING TO VEGAS HAS SKYROCKETED
NOT FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON ANYMORE
Thanks
I lived in Vegas for 22 years, I thought the drop was do to it being a dirty shit hole that now charges for parking and 22 bucks for a bagel but I guess it could be......
It wasn’t THAT long ago that we would get songs about Vegas or movie about Vegas and all the crazy adventures you could get into , tv shows about Vegas like celebrity poker
Used to see ads all the time for “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”
Now ? I see nothing
No wonder tourism is down. I wonder how bad it has to get for the investors who run the casinos to finally drop their prices to a more reasonable level or are we just going to get endless articles blaming Trump on why people don’t go to Vegas anymore ?
I can think of another reason to stay away from Las Vegas, and it has nothing to do with Mr. Trump. They renamed their airport after Harry Reid, a scoundrel if ever there was one!
Good call.
It is indeed BS.
Vegas has gone full Disney, video at the link...
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This is why Vegas tourism will stay down
American shows that in his Vegas hotel you can’t even use the mini fridge anymore. They have equipt it with sensors and if you put anything inside you’ll be charged $50 per day
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NEVER go full Disney.
I recall that there were frequent tours by chartered planes of Hawaiian Asians who’d fly to Vegas to gamble. It was like a religion; they were embarrassingly enthusiastic about their junkets.
In the ‘70s and ‘80s we loved visiting Vegas. Went back in the ‘90s and it had changed too much — never went back. Too many kids, and prices were too high. The whole atmosphere was yukky.
I heard it was butthurt Canadians with TDS that were taking credit
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