Whether an uptick in violence will have a direct impact on visitor volume is tough to say, Stutz said. “We’ll see if these new measures work,” Stutz said.
Resorts like the Wynn Las Vegas and Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas have put in metal detectors and are screening guests. Stutz said the industry is worried, but the resorts are working with Las Vegas Metro Police to beef up security and improve safety. Anything happens on the Las Vegas Strip, it is going to make national headlines, good or bad,' Howard Stutz, executive editor of CDC Gaming Reports, told KNPR's State of Nevada. Violence remains a weekly problem on the Strip, and that could scare visitors from filling all those new rooms.
It will also mark the debut of the tribal gaming industry in the Las Vegas market.īut not all is rosy. Next week, Derek Stevens’ Circa will be downtown Las Vegas’ first new resort in 40 years.Īnd Virgin - which will take over the former Hard Rock Hotel just east of the Strip - is set to open in January. In fact, despite reduced operations, properties new and old are opening up.
Tourists may not be flooding Nevada casinos like it used to, but that doesn’t mean the gaming industry hasn’t had its hands full.
