Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley issued a heartfelt plea to Canadian visitors this week, acknowledging the city’s tourism-dependent economy is suffering from a dramatic decline in international visitors, particularly from Canada, which represents the city’s largest international market.

“As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,” Berkley said during a press conference this week, where she addressed the multiple challenges facing the entertainment capital’s tourism industry.

The mayor’s latest comments echo concerns she first raised in an August press conference, where she painted a stark picture of the tourism decline.

“International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’

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  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    I think that if we don’t have civil war, the political sea change will come from Boomers dying of old age, allowing younger generations to slot into their evacuated political and fiscal offices.

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      23 hours ago

      And Gen Z is heavily right-leaning due to the piss-poor quality of education and all the manosphere propaganda over the last several years. It’s going to continue to get worse for a very long time before it gets better.