{"id":166781,"date":"2021-03-10T05:19:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T13:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=166781"},"modified":"2021-03-10T08:30:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:30:56","slug":"nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Travel Industry: Tourist Confidence Growing in Face of Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nevada\u2019s travel industry had cause for cautious optimism this week. Stakeholders said there are indications of growing confidence among visitors to the Silver State.<\/p>\n

\"Las
Masked-up visitors to the Las Vegas Strip late last year. There are indications that travelers are becoming more comfortable about visiting the city. (Image: AFP\/Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

AAA spokesperson Sergio Avila told Fox 5 Las Vegas that a shift in customer behavior suggests people \u201care feeling more comfortable with restrictions, and things that are in place already.\u201d<\/p>\n

In late 2020, travelers were making \u201cextreme last-minute decisions\u201d in that they were booking hotels within 24 hours of departure, Avila said. But now, customers are a little more in line with their pre-pandemic behavior, making bookings that are three to seven days out from departure. Avila believes the expanded timeline reflects a growing relaxation around people\u2019s travel plans.<\/p>\n

To me, it tells me people are feeling more comfortable with restrictions, and things that are in place already,” <\/strong>Avila told Fox5<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Avila also believes that because restrictions are beginning to loosen, people are starting to plan more trips because of pent-up demand.<\/p>\n

Hilarie Grey, a spokesperson for Las Vegas-based Allegiant Airlines, said her company was also seeing increased traveler confidence in responses on customer surveys.<\/p>\n

Sobering Reality for Travel Industry\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The news comes despite guidance from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) that Americans should refrain from travel even if they have been vaccinated because they still risk spreading the virus to others who may be vulnerable.<\/p>\n

And while there are positive noises coming from the tourism industry, the latest edition of the Nevada Resorts Association\u2019s Fact Book<\/em><\/a>, published Tuesday, made for more sober reading.<\/p>\n

\n

No industry has been more severely impacted by the pandemic than travel and hospitality, and few economies are more reliant on this sector than Nevada\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Nevada Resort\u2019s Association said it expected key indicators, such as employee earnings and visitor spending for 2020, to be \u201cless than one-half of the 2019 totals.\u201d It added it believed the crisis would \u201cpersist into 2021 and beyond.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vaccination Rebound<\/strong><\/h2>\n

One year after the first COVID-19 case was reported in Nevada, Governor Steve Sisolak<\/a> (D) told the Associated Press last Friday that safety remained the watchword and that Nevada would vaccinate its way to economic recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cMark my words: Nevada will be the safest place to have a convention or to come and visit. It will be safe for the tourists; it will be safe for the hotel operators and for employees and their families … We\u2019re going to continue to have our numbers improve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to vaccinate as many people as we possibly can. And we\u2019ll continue to open our economy back up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nevada\u2019s travel industry had cause for cautious optimism this week. Stakeholders said there are indications of growing confidence among visitors to the Silver State. AAA spokesperson Sergio Avila told Fox 5 Las Vegas that a shift in customer behavior suggests people \u201care feeling more comfortable with restrictions, and things that are in place already.\u201d In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":166782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33810],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNevada Travel Industry: Tourist Confidence Growing in Face of Pandemic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nevada travel industry thinks visitor confidence is growing because they are booking trips further in advance, hopes for Las Vegas tourism.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nevada Travel Industry: Tourist Confidence Growing in Face of Pandemic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nevada travel industry thinks visitor confidence is growing because they are booking trips further in advance, hopes for Las Vegas tourism.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-10T13:19:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-03-10T16:30:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vegas-covid.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1140\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"655\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casinoorgphilc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/\",\"name\":\"Nevada Travel Industry: Tourist Confidence Growing in Face of Pandemic\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vegas-covid.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-10T13:19:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-10T16:30:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b\"},\"description\":\"Nevada travel industry thinks visitor confidence is growing because they are booking trips further in advance, hopes for Las Vegas tourism.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vegas-covid.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vegas-covid.jpg\",\"width\":1140,\"height\":655,\"caption\":\"Masked-up visitors to the Las Vegas Strip late last year. There are indications that travelers are becoming more comfortable about visiting the city. (Image: AFP\/Getty)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Gaming Business\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/gaming-business\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Nevada Travel Industry: Tourist Confidence Growing in Face of Pandemic\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Casino.org\",\"description\":\"Latest Casino and Gaming News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b\",\"name\":\"Philip Conneller\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-5-1-96x96.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-5-1-96x96.png\",\"caption\":\"Philip Conneller\"},\"description\":\"In Philip Conneller\u2019s eight years with Casino.org, he has covered the gaming industry from Las Vegas to Macau and everything in between. He currently focuses his coverage on gaming law, white-collar crime, global money laundering, tribal gaming, politics, and regulation. Philip was the original features editor for poker\u2019s Bluff Magazine and editor for Bluff Europe, which he helped launch. His writing has also been featured in ESPN, Forbes, Time Out, The Sun, and The Daily Star, as well as iGaming Business, eGaming Review, and numerous other industry news and tech websites. His news stories for Casino.org\/news have been linked by The Washington Post, The Daily Mail, People Magazine, and Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, among many others. Philip once won $20,000 with 7-2 off-suit. He has been reprimanded for unwittingly playing Elton John\u2019s piano on two separate occasions on both sides of the Atlantic. He became a writer because he is a lousy pianist. Philip lives outside London with his wife and children, where he spends his time agonizing about Arsenal FC. Contact Philip at philip.conneller@casino.org.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/muckrack.com\/philip-conneller\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/philip-conneller-1495a48\/?originalSubdomain=uk\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/casinoorgphilc\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/phillip-conneller\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nevada Travel Industry: Tourist Confidence Growing in Face of Pandemic","description":"Nevada travel industry thinks visitor confidence is growing because they are booking trips further in advance, hopes for Las Vegas tourism.","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Nevada Travel Industry: Tourist Confidence Growing in Face of Pandemic","og_description":"Nevada travel industry thinks visitor confidence is growing because they are booking trips further in advance, hopes for Las Vegas tourism.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/","og_site_name":"Casino.org","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews","article_published_time":"2021-03-10T13:19:05+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-03-10T16:30:56+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1140,"height":655,"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vegas-covid.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Philip Conneller","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@casinoorgphilc","twitter_site":"@Casino_Org","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Philip Conneller","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/","name":"Nevada Travel Industry: Tourist Confidence Growing in Face of Pandemic","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vegas-covid.jpg","datePublished":"2021-03-10T13:19:05+00:00","dateModified":"2021-03-10T16:30:56+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b"},"description":"Nevada travel industry thinks visitor confidence is growing because they are booking trips further in advance, hopes for Las Vegas tourism.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vegas-covid.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vegas-covid.jpg","width":1140,"height":655,"caption":"Masked-up visitors to the Las Vegas Strip late last year. There are indications that travelers are becoming more comfortable about visiting the city. (Image: AFP\/Getty)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/nevada-travel-industry-tourist-confidence-growing-in-face-of-pandemic\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Gaming Business","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/gaming-business\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Nevada Travel Industry: Tourist Confidence Growing in Face of Pandemic"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/","name":"Casino.org","description":"Latest Casino and Gaming News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b","name":"Philip Conneller","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-5-1-96x96.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-5-1-96x96.png","caption":"Philip Conneller"},"description":"In Philip Conneller\u2019s eight years with Casino.org, he has covered the gaming industry from Las Vegas to Macau and everything in between. He currently focuses his coverage on gaming law, white-collar crime, global money laundering, tribal gaming, politics, and regulation. Philip was the original features editor for poker\u2019s Bluff Magazine and editor for Bluff Europe, which he helped launch. His writing has also been featured in ESPN, Forbes, Time Out, The Sun, and The Daily Star, as well as iGaming Business, eGaming Review, and numerous other industry news and tech websites. His news stories for Casino.org\/news have been linked by The Washington Post, The Daily Mail, People Magazine, and Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, among many others. Philip once won $20,000 with 7-2 off-suit. He has been reprimanded for unwittingly playing Elton John\u2019s piano on two separate occasions on both sides of the Atlantic. He became a writer because he is a lousy pianist. Philip lives outside London with his wife and children, where he spends his time agonizing about Arsenal FC. Contact Philip at philip.conneller@casino.org.","sameAs":["https:\/\/muckrack.com\/philip-conneller","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/philip-conneller-1495a48\/?originalSubdomain=uk","https:\/\/x.com\/casinoorgphilc"],"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/phillip-conneller\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}