{"id":115491,"date":"2025-08-28T05:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115491\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:16:07","slug":"las-vegas-tourism-industry-awaits-new-visitor-numbers-amid-economic-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115491\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas tourism industry awaits new visitor numbers amid economic challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 The local tourism and hospitality industry is eagerly anticipating the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/news3lv.com\/news\/local\/passenger-numbers-continue-to-trend-down-at-harry-reid-airport#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/news3lv.com\/news\/local\/passenger-numbers-continue-to-trend-down-at-harry-reid-airport#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new visitor numbers<\/a> this Friday, which will indicate whether the region is experiencing a rebound or if the current tourism slump persists.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Wolford, who hosted a tourism town hall earlier today, gathered industry insiders to discuss the reasons behind the slump and potential recovery strategies.<\/p>\n<p> Among the participants was Jeremy Aguero from Applied Analysis, who has collaborated with major entities like Allegiant Stadium and T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Aguero emphasized the resilience of Las Vegas, noting, &#8220;This is not close to the most difficult period we&#8217;ve had, but it&#8217;s certainly a new one, and that period is immediate, and I think everybody wants to find the cause, right? The single thing that&#8217;s causing it to happen. And I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s even such a thing out there. I think there&#8217;s a multitude of factors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He identified factors such as record-high debt levels among Americans and low consumer confidence since the onset of the pandemic. Additionally, international and geopolitical conflicts are influencing travel decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Feldman, a 30-year veteran of MGM Resorts and now the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the International Gaming Institute at UNLV, echoed Aguero&#8217;s optimism about Las Vegas&#8217;s ability to recover. Feldman said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve heard this before. Somewhere here around me, I can&#8217;t access it right now, I have a Life magazine from like 1947 that has &#8211; on the cover &#8211; is Vegas dead? Is Vegas done? One of the things that Jeremy has noted very specifically, we&#8217;ve had these dips and downturns periodically, but if you take a look at the last 80 or 90 years, anyone who has bet against Las Vegas has lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The town hall also included insights from R-J columnist Johnny Kats and Heather Collins, known as RaisedInVegas, who shared perspectives on the local entertainment industry and feedback from locals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 The local tourism and hospitality industry is eagerly anticipating the release of new visitor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,20235,75046,101,53895,75048,2114,75047,6808,75045],"class_list":["post-115491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-consumer-confidence","tag-economic-challenges","tag-economy","tag-hospitality-industry","tag-international-conflicts","tag-las-vegas","tag-recovery-strategies","tag-tourism","tag-visitor-numbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}