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The Venetian, Palazzo, and Sands Expo and Convention Center are re-instituting face mask requirements for employees following new recommendations from the Southern Nevada Health District.
Less than five years after bringing the NFL’s Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, Southern Nevada is dancing with Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics, the Northern California city’s last professional sports franchise, which is seeking to flee the crumbling Oakland Coliseum for possibly a new multi-billion stadium in the desert.
Tourism industry analysts say it’s going to be hard to put the genie back into the bottle when it comes to revamping health and safety regulations addressing COVID-19.
As players grow increasingly antsy about the lack of poker at Massachusetts casinos and the vague timeline for a decision on its fate, regulators and lawyers from the Gaming Commission are looking for answers from gaming executives.
A recent focus group study conducted by Ball State University and the University of Nevada Las Vegas has revealed that consumers are generally ambivalent to having robots in restaurants.
Typically, the week following a three-day weekend there is a tourist truce. But, as everyone knows, 2021 is far from normal, and the weekend after the three-day July 4 vacation has the makings of a Las Vegas blockbuster.
The odds are more than 1 in a million that you’ll be the one to take home the $1 million grand prize in the “Nevada Vax Days” raffle. Or, to be more precise, about 1 in 1.6 million, according to mathematician Ashok Singh, a professor at UNLV’s International Gaming Institute.
Normally, there’s a tourism lull the week after a three-day weekend. But as everyone knows, 2021 is far from normal, and the weekend after the three-day Fourth of July holiday has the makings of a blockbuster for Las Vegas.
Hotels across the U.S. have shifted away from automatic daily housekeeping services in recent months, driven by federal COVID-19 safety guidelines and labor shortages.
The odds are more than 1 in a million that you’ll be the one to take home the $1 million grand prize in the “Nevada Vax Days” raffle.
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. recently changed its housekeeping policy to an opt-in model, which meant that for the latter part of his stay, Ryan Pulliam would return to a room with no clean towels, a disheveled bed and sandy floors.
With casinos launching fireworks throughout the Independence Day weekend, Las Vegas police are out in “full force” patrolling the streets, according to Capt. Dori Koren.