Hotel occupancy was at 72.8 percent last month, a falloff of 6.6 percent from July, the newspaper reported. The average daily room rate of $140.32 in August also was down from July\u2019s rate, by 7.8 percent.<\/p>\n
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The airport, located just east of the Strip, also experienced lower numbers last month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nThis year in August, 3.8 million arriving and departing passengers made their way through McCarran, down from 4.15 million in July. The number of International travelers remained low in August. International travelers are seen as vital to the Las Vegas economy, especially in filling up hotel rooms during the slow mid-week days.<\/p>\n
Vehicle traffic on Interstate 15 at the Nevada-California border was down almost 13 percent in August, with just 49,375 vehicles traveling that route. The Los Angeles area is considered important to Las Vegas tourism, contributing about 20 percent of the visitors to the casino-oriented city.<\/p>\n
Big Wins at Casinos<\/h2>\n
One indicator pointed to brighter days ahead for Las Vegas and the entire state.<\/p>\n
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In August, casinos statewide posted a total win of $1.165 billion. That figure marks six months in a row that Nevada’s casinos have won at least $1 billion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Statewide in July, casinos won $1.35 billion, the highest monthly gaming revenue number<\/a> in state history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of tourists visiting Las Vegas fell in August. This happened as the area experienced an increase in delta variant infections, officials said In August, 2.9 million visitors made their way to the Las Vegas Valley, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority website. That figure is below July\u2019s tourism total of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":187637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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