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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Wrong, almost missed my flight out of Kansas recently because the guy checking IDs pulled the person I was with aside for a full search, because they looked Latina (he said he thought her ID was fake). She had to stand there for 45 minutes waiting to be searched, no one could help her or search her. Finally I pitched a white woman tantrum at another older white woman working and she got her out ASAP. Her ID and everything was fine. He was just racist and wanted to harass her because he could. What a fucker