Tourism may be booming in Southern Nevada, but is the authority’s wild spending the reason Las Vegas is able to benefit?<\/p>\n
Las Vegas consistently ranks among the top travel destinations in the country. The LVCVA says that for every $2 it spends on marketing, it brings in $12 in return.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re No. 1, and we continue to be No. 1 because we continue to do it bigger and better than anyone else, and we have a great destination,\u201d Noonan said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A record 42.3 million people travelled to Las Vegas last year. Visitors spent an average of $827 per trip on hotels, restaurants, souvenirs, and tours in 2016. According to Business Insider<\/em>, Las Vegas is the fifth most popular travel destination in the US for 2017.<\/p>\nFollowing a breakout year for tourism like they saw last year, the authority wants to keep the ball rolling and beat last year’s numbers. But after the final results of the LVCVA\u2019s audit are in, they may have to do it all with a little less cash flying around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
They invested more than $10,000 to fly a group from Latin America to Las Vegas. Nothing less than a thousand-dollar bottle of wine would do when the Las Vegas Convention and Visitor\u2019s Authority entertained guests at lavish hotel bars. These were just some of the questionable expenditures found by an exhaustive review conducted by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":61687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3313,10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Las Vegas Tourism Board Faces Tighter Budget Prospects after Audit<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n