Most Canadians are actively boycotting the US because of the felon president who keeps opening his yap about the 51st state.
Boomers and giant corporations: That's weird. We've been hoovering up real estate and jacking up prices on rent and food, but our entertainment/tourism portfolios are now underperforming... Damn millennials, killing off all the industries!
Plus you know the whole if you're from a foreign country they'll arrest you and throw you in a concentration camp.
Not surprised given how Vegas has evolved in the last 10-15 years. Most of the casinos are run by MGM or Caesars so there is zero incentive to compete any more. It's all expensive - the rooms, the meals, the shows. They slap bullshit like "resort fees" on everything. The comps / drinks are minimal. The table limits are ridiculous. Most of the public attractions are shut down or dialed back. The public transport is abysmal. Oh and Donald Trump has basically told the world that tourists aren't welcome any more. I'm surprised anybody bothers going there any more quite frankly.
Went there for a baseball tournament. What a shit show A 20oz can of beer was $19. Margarita $35...Not surprised in the least that place is dying. Felt like they're trying to make everything 'new york' exclusive with prices to match. Dumb place.
Hmm, I can't think of anything in the US that may be affecting tourism right now. Anyone else drawing a blank?
Well it can't be hostility to foreigners or the cost of living skyrocketing to the stratosphere, because there's no way that could ever happen. Must be the Democrat's fault. Thanks Obama.
Yeah that happens when you take away people's financial stability and/or money in general. No one plans to spend it they plan to save it.
Don't forget the collapse of international tourism as well. It's a double whammy.
But, we’re glad those blue strong holds are hurting, and not us! /s
When wil they realize "blue strong hold" is just another term for city.
13.2% fewer international travelers visited Las Vegas in June compared to last year.
I'm surprised it only declined that much....
I think a partial explanation can be that for most international tourists a visit to the USA is a major trip that gets planned well in advance. Easily half or even a full year ahead. Things only really got bad in the last few months, so we might still see many holidays that were planned before the madness fully set in. If that is the case I'd expect a continued decline in the future, where people choose another destination when deciding their next itinerary.
Lol trump killed the US tourism
add it to the list of moronic shit he's done that's bankrupting the USA
He's killed the US business like he's killed every single business is greasy ass fingers have strangled
We were in Las Vegas a couple of months ago and the prices were beyond belief. Two pastries and a bottle of water at the Bellagio were $27. Ferris wheel tickets were $30 each. A movie at the Sphere was $95. The food, even at highly rated restaurants wasn't all that good while still being very expensive. We're happy to spend more while on vacation, but there is no way this place is worth anywhere near what they are charging.
Las Vegas is now a prime example of enshittification. The Bellagio's fountain show has been shortened to 6 minutes and is a shadow of the previously impressive show. They've removed the lighting from their famous Chihuli glass ceiling. The city and the hotels have removed all public seating so you can't just wander around without spending hours on your feet or visiting one of those expensive, mediocre restaurants. (The Venetian was a welcome exception to this.)
Las Vegas used to be a fun place to do a bit of gambling while enjoying lots of other activities without being fleeced. Not anymore.
At some point they broke the compact. You come, you get a $30-per-night hotel and a $8 steak dinner because the rest of the money is going into the machines/tables. That's why so many of the attractions used to be the gawkable buildings and public shows-- you could still enjoy them if you had blown your budget.
I guess they pivoted away, but to what? There are whales who want a $5000-per-night suite but you can't fill an entire 30-story building with them (especially when there are 50 such buildings within walking distance all chasing them)
I went in May and even cheap meals were over $10, the low-mid priced Fremont Street hotel was around a hundred bucks a night, and the one show I went to was 1/3 full probably because it was $75 for an act that's been running for decades. I budgeted $1000 to gamble but ended up only dropping 350 because it felt like it wasn't much I couldn't see in the local Native-reservation casino.
I will say nothing but good things for the Pinball Hall of Fame though.
It became corporate thats what happened. About 15 years ago I took a cab in Vegas. My driver was a long since retired back up singer. He told me stories of working with all sorts of Vegas acts, Sinatra and so on.
He then got a bit wistful about the old times. He said he missed old Vegas. He missed the mob. He said when the mob ran Vegas you knew where you stood and the mob knew to simply take a little off the top year after year.
Then he said the corporations moved in. And everyyear they squeeze. Take more and more, it never stops. They are the ones who invited families in and squeezed some more. Raised the prices on everything, made the odds worse if the could on slots, built giant building and increased the prices for rent and nickle and dimed every single service they could.
And year after year it was never enough, they just kept squeezing and increasing prices.
That didn't happen in 4 months though. I wonder what changed, hmmmm.
That didn’t happen in 4 months though.
I think a tipping point has been reached.
The US government threatened to annex Canada, violently or by economic blackmail. Fuck them. I would like to cordially invite Trump to shit out his own liver.
If Vegas is a casualty, then let it die.
Call me crazy but we shouldn’t be building cities in the middle of the desert anyway.
It's gambling in airconditioned shitty hotels, a miracle anyone wants to go in the first place.
Right now they're trying to bulldoze Coney Island, aka "The People's Playground" and a historic icon, to replace it with a shitty casino. No one wants it, but the money must flow. The parent corp is paying off people and using shitty tactics to try to fake support for it, but they've also pissed off a massive community of artists and activists who have been fighting tooth and nail against it.
We already lost the streets. The city gave them to a greedy corporation that has bought and ruined multiple historic buildings over the last two decades. Eric Adams has a hand in all of this.
Below is their plan. See the little building circled in red? That's home to a museum, a theater, a cultural pillar and events organizer, and the last permanently housed circus sideshow in quite possibly the world. It's got historic protected status. They're trying to engulf us.
If you've read this far, please spread the word. This is my performance home. If you live near NY, sign the petition
They're gonna build over it? That's whack. Is that allowed?
Vegas fucking sucks though, honestly.
Canadians visits are down by 50+ points.
Not sure why it's not 95+.
50 is insane already, these are cancelled non-refunded holidays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ2PadOPpW8
Basically a video on the whole topic. I went last December for a wedding and had a good time but it was hell a expensive and we did the cheapest stuff. Id go back if it was cheaper. But its only gotten more expensive in the half year since.
We went around Christmas. Took all the money we would spend for Christmas presents and just took a family trip.
Stayed at the Linq for $50 a night, ate at In and Out burger three nights. Walked Fremont Street, visited the neon sign museum. Red Rock and Calico basin. Dorked around on the light rail and oogled the outside of the sphere, visited the speed cube shop.
The most expensive thing we did was Area15 four people. The whole thing came to about $2500 including flights and car.
That said, there was no gambling, We didn't go see any shows, We didn't eat any fancy meals. From a Las Vegas tourism standard, they didn't really make much off of us.
I just spent a week there for work and I can't think of a reason to ever visit it's so ludicrously expensive. Anything that would cost $10 in normal society and that's overpriced by $5 is at least 20 in Vegas.
Just went to Vegas for the first time in a decade, it’s painful how expensive it’s gotten. A single G&T cost 20 bucks.
Hope Miriam Adelson is happy, she got what she paid for.
Can you elaborate? I'm out of the loop.
Adelsons own a ton of stuff in Vegas and they donate heavily to Republicans. The drop in traffic is definitely going to affect her business.
Who cares. I hope it turns back into a desert. Fucking fascist us. Getting worse by the hour.
Edit: some reindeer try to obfuscate by nit picking the point. It now says desert. My point still stands.
I went to Vegas (from Canada) in November for a company convention sort of thing right after Trump got in and felt off about it then but like actual fuck I'd go now. My company is actually struggling to find somewhere to go next year since, while they're a US based remote-first company, a LOT of their employees are outside of the United States.
Edit: It's funny, I've noticed they've really seemed to prioritise hiring Canadian developers in the last few years. I've always wondered if it's because they feel they can pay us less
Edit: It’s funny, I’ve noticed they’ve really seemed to prioritise hiring Canadian developers in the last few years. I’ve always wondered if it’s because they feel they can pay us less
I have no idea why, but Canadian IT professionals earn a fraction of their US counterparts. I can tell you its not a skill gap either. I've worked with many amazingly brilliant Canadian IT professionals. Its a great untapped market for global talent. Prior to trump, I saw it as a huge asset to American companies to have access to such a highly skilled work force, working in our same time zones, speaking the same language, but costing half of an American salary (or less!). However, trump killed that. I very much miss my Canadian brothers and sisters in IT.
This is what Vegas looked like 6 years ago, when I decided I would never go again, at least not to the strip. Wall-to-wall fucking people on every square inch. You used to get comped things to encourage you to gamble. Those days are past. Now, you can't even park in the hotel garage at the hotel you are staying at without paying extra.
It is so tedious to listen to complaints about the "worst ever" anything when it represents a 4% fluctuation in a trend that has positively RUINED Vegas as a destination due to constant double-digit year-over-year gains.
They’re also replacing table games with slots and even making craps and roulette better for the casinos.
I didn’t want to go to Vegas before, but now? Never.
Vegas is an entirely man made vacation destination, there is no natural reason to visit. It used to be that only Nevada and New Jersey had gambling but now you find gambling towns everywhere.
I think this has less to do with prices or quality and more to do with a reduction in international tourism across the board.
I visited Vegas last year. Regardless of any sort of economical or political issues, it was some of the most miserable heat I've ever experienced. Standing outside for only a few minutes exhausted me.
I'm guessing half of the drop is Canadians
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