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The average rate of a three-night stay in Las Vegas for the Formula One race weekend is $1,372, according to Vegas Insider, a website that provides gambling odds and trends. Last year, it was $2,314.
It’s hard to imagine Las Vegas casino behemoth MGM Resorts International associated with failure. But the company’s 33-acre MGM Grand Adventures theme park, which first opened Dec. 18, 1993, and closed less than seven years later, has to qualify as one of the city’s historic flops.
It’s hard to imagine Las Vegas casino behemoth MGM Resorts International associated with failure. But the company’s 33-acre MGM Grand Adventures theme park, which first opened Dec. 18, 1993, and closed less than seven years later, has to qualify as one of the city’s historic flops.
More and more places around the world are struggling with overtourism and are thinking about new strategies to avoid being overrun by the masses season after season. On the one hand, tourists bring money into the region, but on the other hand, they harm the environment. Because where there are a lot of people, there is usually a lot of garbage. And it remains, even when the travelers are long gone.
Every year, the Fodor’s No List aims to shine a light on destinations suffering from untenable popularity. These locations are popular for good reason—they are stunning, intriguing, and culturally significant. However, some of these highly coveted tourist spots are collapsing under the burden of their own prominence.
The statistics are startling enough. Average menu prices increased more than 27 percent from February 2020 to June 2024, according to the National Restaurant Association. Nevada ranked fifth nationally for restaurant inflation from November 2022 to June 2023, according to U.S. Census Bureau data analyzed by USA Today.
A headline initially used in a Las Vegas Review-Journal online story implied that a UNLV professor was endorsing Donald Trump for president.
A headline initially used in a Las Vegas Review-Journal online story implied that a UNLV professor was endorsing Donald Trump for president.
Las Vegas’ recent emphasis on sports tourism and the apparent reversal of a common visitation trend are keeping Southern Nevada’s tourism economy healthy, a UNLV expert said Tuesday.
The Tropicana collapsed with a bang. The iconic casino was demolished early Wednesday to make way for a baseball stadium, part of a shift that Las Vegas officials hope will boost the city's economic future as concerns about affordability mount on and off the Strip, the iconic thoroughfare home to the city's most celebrated hotels.
The Tropicana collapsed with a bang. The iconic casino was demolished early Wednesday to make way for a baseball stadium, part of a shift that Las Vegas officials hope will boost the city's economic future as concerns about affordability mount on and off the Strip, the iconic thoroughfare home to the city's most celebrated hotels.
Five red roulette numbers hitting in a row doesn’t mean a black one is more likely on the sixth spin. Even if you recognize the truth of this statement, whenever that sixth spin lands on black, it can still be difficult to resist learning incorrectly from the experience.
