Posted on 08/01/2025 4:06:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Tourism troubles for Las Vegas continued in June, with estimates showing the number of visitors down 11.3% compared to June of last year, reports released on Wednesday showed.
The trend deepened in June with lower convention attendance adding to the problem. Last month, higher convention attendance (+10.7%) helped cover some of the dip in Las Vegas visitors. But that didn’t happen in June, which had a 10.7% decline in convention attendance compared to June 2024.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitor Authority’s June report showed an estimated 3,094,800 people came to the city, down from 3,490,061 in June 2024.
A separate report from Harry Reid International Airport showed passenger counts plunged by 6.3% in June.
Both reports are signals that travel decisions are still suffering under the weight of economic uncertainty.
“Reflecting the broader backdrop of persistent economic uncertainty and weaker consumer confidence, compounded by a slower convention month, the destination saw a ‐11% YoY (year-over-year) decline in visitation, hosting approximately 3.1M visitors,” according to the LVCVA.
So far this calendar year, visitation is 7.3% lower than last year.
Travel from Canada has not returned to normal levels. Air Canada reported travelers had dropped 13.2% from May to June, and a year-over-year comparison showed totals a third lower in June.
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Bummer.
Good.
Time to bring back the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Vegas.
It’s to expensive end of story. I live 250 miles away and haven’t been there since 2008. I can afford it, but choose to say stuff it out of principle.
They can't say online gambling because that will give away that this visitor count drop is not temporary.
They also can't say that their position as a Los Angeles' getaway is over due to the decline of Los Angeles - again, not temporary.
A secondary reason guess? Fewer freeloaders in the Trump economy translates to fewer gamblers, as those who earn their money tend to be more careful with it.
PRICES ARE OUTRAGEOUS.
I CAN REMEMBER WHEN A COUPLE COULD GO TO LV—SEE 1 SHOW-—EAT-HAVE A DECENT ROOM & THE WEEKEND WOULD COST ABOUT $600.
If gambling is your main reason to visit Vegas, there are more and more Indian casinos that can take care of that pastime. Why spend money to get to Vegas to play Huff ‘n Puff when you can play it locally?
Is MGM hurting for money? No they have made record profits year over year the last 3 years. According to MGM executives Vegas is no longer about hospitality and service. "We are a sports and convention town now." The rooms will fill up no matter how shitty the service is. And they can always raise room rates to makeup for lack of reservations.
There is barely any hotel staff. Security is no where to be found (because their staff has also been gutted). People are beat up or robbed in the main entrance or in the valet and security shows up 15 minutes later and writes a report.
Also Democrats have made Las Vegas LA 2.0. There are fentanyl zombies everywhere. They come into the casinos and yell or assault guests (security shows up 15 minutes after). Everyone smokes weed everywhere. While you are waiting in valet with your family for your car there will be a group of super cool people smoking blunts and blowing the smoke at your kids and laughing (security is no where to be found but will write a report when the show up 15 minutes after they are called if you want). DUI related deaths record high year over year be cause DUI laws are a joke here (once again thanks Democrats).
When Vegas was a bargain to entice people to come and gamble it was always packed. Now the business model is to have as little staff as possible, have less guests than before, and just squeeze and nickel and dime them to make-up for the lower volume. Off the strip casinos and hotels are doing much better than the Strip because they are more like Old Vegas."
And Injun casinos.
Beat me to it.
My daughter, her husband and a couple of friends went for a pro football game a feew years ago. Said everyone smoked dope in LV. Cpuldn’t even walk down the street without getting stoned. Not everyone likes the feeling.
Or, it could be that math proficiency among the general public has risen.
Not sure how sustainable that model is.
LV was fun in the ‘70s and ‘80s. We visited in 1996 and it was so different. Too many kids, for one thing.
I lived in Vegas for 22 years, it is now a shit hole, they got rid of everything that was cool about Vegas and replaced it with nickle and dimeing you, it deserves to suffer, it needs to be a deal not a vacuum on your wallet!
Another thing: do young people still think that going to Vegas is cool?
Want to really have fun Vegas style, go to Branson, MO.
They nickel and dime you at the check out
ridiculous
Drove through LV in the early ‘70s. Stopped long enough to lose $10 in the slots. Camped in the desert that night. Then around 2007 attended a conference there. Roamed the countryside a bit, never went to the strip.
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