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 ?
Fascism is unpopular.
Shocking I’m sure.
Well, what did you expect people to do when your president started questioning Canada’s sovereignty? To roll over and keep giving you money?! Get rid of the infestation of fascists all over the place, burn it all down, and then, maybe then people might think about returning to the USA.
But I do find it funny that in Youtube comments on channels like Guard The Leaf or “Not Leaving Las Vegas” there were idiots claiming that Vegas doesn’t run on income from foreign visitors, that it mostly runs on domestic tourism, despite showing them actual numbers from the Las Vegas airport.
Canadian here. Nice try, ICE.
“Come to Las Vegas! Win a free trip to El Salvador if you accidentally get swept up in an ICE raid!”
Was just in the city. Everyone was telling me how bad it got. I had a great time. Didn’t have to make a reservation for the Wynn buffet. I just walked right in. Then the Uber drivers were telling how bad things have got for them. From 15k a week to maybe 2-3K. Same thing for bartenders and waitresses.
Lol.
Did they think owning the libs was going to be free?
Must be nice winning so much they went full ouroboros. Fucking simpletons.
I’m American, have never been to Vegas and was planning a trip. Then all my bills went up. My insurance alone tripled. I now fear traveling state to state as I don’t trust the police in red states so no driving through them. I no longer trust the TSA to not arrest me for what I post online so no more flying. I think I will stay right here for the foreseeable future as travel just isn’t important to me right now. Would I love to travel? Yes. I need to feel safe and secure in it and to not be financially ruined by it. Right now I just need to focus on making sure my housing and food is secured. I don’t have time or security to focus on anything else.
Same here. I’m much darker than my own mother and have spent a lot of time during my childhood in the 70s and 80s being asked if my parents had an “interracial marriage”, oh AND I have tattoos ( god forbid, but dark people with tattoos are seen as gang members by the current administration.) I haven’t traveled outside this country since pre-COVID and I believe the next time I’m able to afford it, I’m going somewhere that will allow me to stay permanently. The current administration terrifies and angers me, and the other side not doing anything about it has me wondering why I’m still here.
I can promise you TSA doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything besides the water bottle in your backpack. Other agencies, sure, but the TSA itself is only concerned if you’re trying to bring a prohibited item through security. Unless the FBI has tagged you as a terrorist or something they could care less.
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*couldn’t care less.
This means they are at the bottom of the care barrel and that thing is dry.
Compare “couldn’t have any less money” with “could have less money”.
TSA just loves to power trip. Last trip my pre check got messed up so my wife and daughter went through and got on the plane, and I got sent to the 45 minute other line. They let a handicapped person go right ahead of me and skip the line when I finally got to the front (normally okay, but now I had 10 minutes left to run to the plane for final boarding). They flagged my bag for extra checking because there were baby wipes in there, and when I asked if they could check mine first before the guy who got placed in front of me, he yelled at me that I should have been at the airport 2 hours ago and it wasn’t his problem if I missed my flight and my wife and daughter flew without me.
Maybe today but do you think Orange Man won’t weaponize the TSA given a reason or opportunity?
They’re already so desperate to have the power of real cops, that’s a terrifying thought
I’m Canadian, and this year I went to Florida to fulfill a life-long (I’ll be 60 next year) dream to visit the Kennedy Space Center. One thing I noticed, beyond getting “randomly secondarily” screened at EVERY security checkpoint, was that there were no wait lines for anything anywhere.
No lines at NASA, no lines at restaurants, no lines at Orlando attractions. At least nothing more than a couple of minutes, at most. Even the beaches were mostly empty…
Las Vegas is having the day Nevada voted for…
Can we please stop acting like the 2024 election results were legitimate and not a hostile corporate takeover? Every time this dumbass shit is uttered, especially about a blue state, all it does is aid the fascists in legitimizing their ill-gotten positions of power.
The results were legitimate though. Too many people didn’t bother to go out and do their civic duty. And it helped the fascists in performing their hostile takeover.
So, yes, Las Vegas is reaping what Nevada sowed.
Noviello’s death marks the eighth known immigrant detainee deaths this year.
https://www.foxla.com/news/canadian-ice-custody-death
There’s a non-zero chance the American government will find you and kill you.
Even if Trump was gone, and the damage was repaired, it’s so fucking expensive there now.
The only reason I’d go now is if there’s something there I can’t realistically see/do otherwise, or if the flights are so much cheaper to get there (and flights there can be cheap) that it makes up the cost of potentially seeing / doing that something elsewhere.
Otherwise, I’ve been there enough now, I don’t need to go again.
Maybe it would help if our President wasn’t threatening Canadian sovereignty, and the cult wasn’t cheering it on.
Donald Trump’s incessant goading of Canada—threatening steep tariffs, and urging it to become the 51st state was only earlier this year.
What’s your point? These declining tourism numbers aren’t from last year or something, but from this year.
Here is my most Canadian reaction.
Bwahahahahahaaaaa… No.
Et pour l’autre langue officielle:
Honhonhonghonhooon… Non.
Yup bout sums it up….
Je t’ai upvoté dans les deux langues
Merci pour respecter l’autre langue!
Pls respond
The mayor of Las Vegas is a democrat, not a member of the face-eating leopards party. I’m too busy to look it up right now but I’m going to bet that the Las Vegas City and surrounding county is probably one of the most consistently Democratic parts of Nevada. Of course Canadians should still stay away. Any non-american should just not come, but this is not lamf
Las Vegas is effectively the only part of Nevada with people in it.
Reno is the other but the area is a lot of billionaire bungalows and I dunno if I’d call them “people” so it’s mostly just a big trailer park
Now I’m curious, why would Las Vegas be inclined to vote Dem?
A lot of union jobs work at the casinos. You also have a higher than average performance sector.
A huge proportion of the actual residents of Vegas and the surrounding areas are service workers, since it’s a tourist hub. Because of this, service worker unions in the area have a pretty sizable influence, and they tend to endorse Democratic candidates. In the most recent election I suspect that this influence was partially offset by (1) COVID tourism revenue loss being blamed on Biden and (2) Trump’s illusory promise of no tax on tips.
