The Entertainment Capital of the World hopes to get back to what it does best in the near future. Las Vegas tourism experts believe it will sooner rather than later. (Image: Fox News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIndustry analysts say that the act of a lone shooter won’t scare away visitors in coming months. They also believe the incident will not define Las Vegas or the Strip’s southern end.<\/p>\n
Talking with the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/i>, University of Central Florida economic professor Sean Snaith compared the mass killing with one that occurred very close to his campus, the Pulse nightclub shooting attack in 2016.<\/p>\n\n
At that time, tourism experts voiced concerns about the Orlando area\u00a0facing a decline in tourism. Orlando has\u00a0the second-most hotel rooms of any US city behind only Las Vegas. But in the year following Pulse, the Disney and family-oriented area didn’t see any change to its overall visitation numbers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Snaith pointed out, however, that Pulse was located away from Orlando’s main tourism hotspots, while the Las Vegas massacre took place on the Strip, the city’s predominant attraction.<\/p>\n
Terror’s Impact on Tourism<\/b><\/h2>\n
Along with Snaith, the Word Travel and Tourism Council, a London-based forum made up of global tourism leaders, said in a note that it too believes Las Vegas will recover and be just fine in the long term.<\/p>\n
\n“Visitors are resilient when it comes to this kind of isolated incident and do not relate it to the destination,” the group’s note said. “Although this attack is unprecedented in its scale and tragic impact, we believe that travel and tourism to Las Vegas will hold up.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
That, of course, is dependent on keeping Las Vegas free of a similar events for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
In Paris, tourism fell more than six percent in 2016 following coordinated attacks in November 2015 that killed 130 victims. And despite terrorist attacks taking place in other parts of Europe, most notably Germany and Spain, as well as in England, Paris has largely remained safe since that horrifying day, which has led slowly to a return in tourism.<\/p>\n