As much as I find the new synthetic “Disney with slots” Las Vegas annoying and even kind of pathetic, you’ve got to admit that reinvention has worked, and quite possibly saved the city as a tourist destination. With Indian casinos everywhere “come across country to gamble here” is simply not a compelling narrative anymore, and Atlantic City hasn’t found anything else to advertise.
After the casino come tour Soweto across that street!
“As much as I find the new synthetic “Disney with slots” Las Vegas annoying and even kind of pathetic, you’ve got to admit that reinvention has worked, and quite possibly saved the city as a tourist destination.”
Vegas just keeps on morphing. From the late 90s through the GWB years, it was disney with slots.
Nowadays, slots are far from the biggest draw in Vegas. Instead, it’s the nightclubs and the newest invention, the dayclubs.
Younger visitors go to Vegas mainly to spend insane amounts of money to party, and less of it to gamble.
Reinvention is why Vegas continues to thrive.