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. “’
Great yet ?
Las Vegas is a city built for a different era, and we’re not in that era any more. I really don’t see it re-surging, at least until Trump allows fights to the death at MGM Grand. Kinda /s.
It could come back, but it won’t be the same Vegas. They’re trying hard to pivot.
Gambling needs to take a back seat to entertainment. It’s chock full of stuff to do, the Sphere, the Dam, the canyons, the desert, family-friendly shows, Area-15, and they’re cleaning up the strip.
They just need the US to be on the menu for tourism again and that’s not going to happen with all this motions to everything going on.