Posted on 09/12/2025 2:33:07 PM PDT by Libloather
Las Vegas tourism continues to decline as fresh numbers reveal that fewer visitors are traveling to Sin City.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) recently released its numbers for July visitors, noting a 12% drop from last year.
There were 3,089,300 visitors this July compared to over 3.5 million last year, while occupancy on the Strip dropped 7% from 86.5% last year.
The tourism decline has been attributed to a combination of factors, including the impact of tariffs, the seasonal summer slowdown, and a surge in online gaming.
Most recently, the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino announced it will be forgoing live dealers, shifting to electronic table games (ETG).
Owner and CEO Derek Stevens told Fox News Digital about ongoing evolutions and shared updates.
"I think things continue to change. I remember that at one point in time, people played sic bo [a fast-paced dice game with Asian origins]," said Stevens.
"Remember, there are a lot of different games that had their eras and their run, whether it's in Vegas or anywhere around the world," he added.
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One of Caesars big properties is in the midwest. Something like #2 in revenue or profit.
And some Vegas “influencers” attribute the decline to the tariffs and unwelcome atmosphere due to political leaders.
They ignore the 109 pound elephants in the room (skyrocketing prices, fees out the wazoo, lousy gaming rules).
Nothing like piling seven of us college boys into one room at the Imperial Palace and dining in those cheap buffets so we could play blackjack all weekend and drive back through the desert to Los Angeles with brutal hangovers.
I bet they still have a tip screen on the games.
Eagles tickets at the Sphere are ridiculous. I am not paying $946 just to see Glenn Frey and some substitutes.
The whole idea of Las Vegas or “Vegas” (as we know it) is in decline.
I am not paying $946 just to see Glenn Frey and some substitutes.
If Glenn Frey was there, it would be worth a lot more than $946.
Well you got to use the system without paying for it. Now less are gambling so the prices have to rise. And you’re complaining about it.
I live in Memphis. I can go to Tunica, MS or West Memphis, AR.
Sams Town is closing in Tunica in Nov. That will leave just 5 left in Tunica. It has been a weak casino for many years now and isn’t even open 24 hours a day anymore.
We used to pay twenty bucks a head to see my wife’s favorite country music stars.
Of course that was thirty years ago...
It is a chicken and egg problem.
If you raise prices less people will come.
If you lower prices more people will come.
I forgot to mention the free drinks—though of course you tipped the cute waitress.
Those were the days...
My daughte, SIL and another couple went to Vegas a few years to see a football game. The enjoyed the game but hated being in LV. Everyone smoking tope on the sidewalks and even inside casinos.
If you’re not a lady, stay away.
The Hoover Dam tour is well worth the time. Do it.
Also plenty of hiking in the desert ... Red Rock Canyon is worth at least a day. Frenchman's Mountain is a nice climb, just off Lake Meade Blvd. Other areas exist farther away.
Vegas itself, particularly the "Strip" and immediate surroundings, is vile.
No it’s not. Vegas was cheap because everything was subsidized by gambling, to encourage more gambling. People don’t gamble like they do anymore. No more $1 prime rib or whatever.
Me, too. But business called.
We just hiked across 45 miles of Ireland, Scotland and England. It was wonderful.
Well, a few places have charm and it is possible to have fun there - with a few caveats. I have been there 400 times at least, going back to the early 1970s actually. Though mostly for conventions but occasionally for fun. A few bachelor parties and weddings. I once pooled a couple hundred bucks from 15 people and sat at a machine for hours running the money up and down. I got a pile of “points” and was able to parlay those points into free nights at the Cosmopolitan (this was before COVID) and had a concierge contact number. He scored my wife and I seats at their venue - which is a small theater maybe a few 1000 people max - we saw Sting from a cocktail table on a platform up near the stage. We also saw Duran Duran and the Foo Fighters. Those were nice perks. We saw Elton John but to me it wasn’t very special. I’d seen him a few times 40+ years ago he was much better back in those days. It changed a lot, they blew up all the old joints and built palaces while the culture shifted into slovenly attire and rudeness.
We still take an annual pilgrimage “boys trip” but it’s starting to degrade into nothingness. This last trip was just no fun at all. Free rooms but everything else was just ridiculously expensive. $55 a night for things that everywhere else in the world is free - wifi, TV, and a pool. Went off strip a few times there are some decent place - but there are decent places near my home too. The whole point is supposed to be an experience and its become a mostly unenjoyable experience overall.
The high end hotels are ridiculously overpriced and the low-end places are total dumps. Really, they should go back and make jacket and tie mandatory. I was at several of the fanciest swankiest joints on the strip and they were full of zhlubs in bathing suits and flipflops meandering around.
Yes,
I am free to take advantage from any sale or promotion.
And, I am also free not to go to Vegas when they took those promotion away.
I am not complaining, I am just explaining, why I do not go there again.
I have read in several articles that the youngest generational cohort (Gen-Z?) is drinking less and going to church more. I wonder if that correlates to less trips to Vegas.
Tariffs? Oh come on Fox. What the hell? Do they buy their cards from overseas? Chips?
Ridiculous.
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