I am hijacking my own comment here. Apparently the occupancy of Las Vegas hasn’t really shifted at all since the 90s. What the guy in the video is saying is true enough but I think the video is still a little sensationalised.
https://www.lvcva.com/research/reports/post/historical-visitation-statistics-1970-2024/
https://res.cloudinary.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1740683821/clients/lasvegas/Las_Vegas_Historical_1970_to_2024_143e51ff-0c5d-4878-a682-9a85c2925c59.pdf (check out the occupancy percentage)
Okay final draft: The truth is more complicated than that. Apparently the visitation rates are still the same. It’s the gaming revenue that’s down. Which you can see down here here. Which makes sense I suppose. So apparently people are still visiting Vegas they’re just not gambling as much any more (or people have just gotten more and more lucky over the years 🙃).
https://www.lvcva.com/research/reports/post/lvcva-executive-summary-of-southern-nevada-tourism-indicators/ (check out these excel reports over the years looking at the gaming revenue on the bottom right)
The executive summary for June 2025 says that visitation rates are down 11% YoY.
Canadians have left Vegas in droves. Cancelled flights and hotels all over the place.
No support for fascist dictators and their corporate overlords.
Never understood why you’d go to the desert and throw away your money in tacky motels, but to each their own I guess 🤷🏼♀️.
Hey me either but even some of the rednecks I know cancelled trips. That’s very cool man.
Wonder how many Las Vegas big wigs voted for the Trumpcession.
This shouldn’t be hard for business owners of any size. You look at the stats. You see that our economy always fares better under Democrats, then you vote Democrat because a better economy means people are spending more money at your business.
Stupid is as stupid does, I guess.
It’s always the same answer.
Why aren’t people having kids any more?
Why aren’t people going to bars anymore?
Why don’t people want to work anymore?
Because 8 lazy lucky fuckers own 50% of everything that we’ve built.
Wealth redistribution would unironically fix the majority of social and economic problems
Hell yes.
Every year, we should take the richest person in the country and redistribute half their assets.
Also, if you use unrealized assets as collateral for a loan, you should be taxed on the value of those assets.
Was in Vegas in June to see weird Al concert. Believe the stories about $20 bottled water. Apparently Vegas decided it wanted to be like Monte Carlo and cater to the ultra rich. There is no reason for anyone who doesn’t have oodles of fuck you money to go to Vegas anymore. It’s just not affordable which makes it not fun for normies.
It’s a cesspool in the desert, why would I go there even if I had money?
Canadians: How aboot no!
You ain’t seen nothing yet. The policies of the ignorant, incompetent and fascists haven’t fully kicked in. It will get worse, much worse.
If I bankrupt a casino, I might as well bankrupt every casino!
Yep the guy who bankrupted multiple casinos is running the country now. The economy is gonna crash hard. You’ll be wishing for the 2008 financial crisis.
The Strip has always been the worst part of this city as long as I’ve been here. The weirdest trip is when I worked retail on it, and there was no freaking way you could ever responsibly afford the stuff you sold (even with employee discounts).
I imagine a majority of that area is like that. The rank and file are meant to serve the wealthy invisibly, and get out. The enjoyment is for the oil sheiks and tech bros and other wealthy foreigners who couldn’t tell you what they do for that wealth in under a hundred words.
I’ve been fortunate to see some shows and things here before, but the rest of the city, much as I want to escape, has much more to offer than that nasty den of scum, villainy, and abject misery that is The Strip.
Unfortunately, if the Strip tanks, it’ll likely take a lot of the city with it.
Yea, no one asks “Why doesn’t anyone visit Vegas anymore”.
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Suckers will always go to Vegas
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We don’t care who does/doesn’t go to Vegas
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If Vegas disappeared tomorrow, we’d cheer
Oh some people are.
When you throw on the “They Live” glasses, what you discover is that its just ads by the Las Vegas promotional department.
But also, “Why doesn’t anyone want to go to the desert in the middle of a massive summer heat wave?” should maybe be self-explanatory. That, plus telling all the overseas millionaires “Fuck you, try Dubai instead”.
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He wasn’t satisfied with just bankrupting his own casino. He’s a mission to bankrupt every other casino, too.
He’s going to bankrupt Wall Street the biggest casino in the world
Gambling is also widespread enough now if that’s why you were going to Vegas, you don’t have to anymore. Even in NC we have a pretty sizable casino in Cherokee. And the shows in Vegas seem to really just be the same shit you could see in other big cities, or at least something equivalent.
DraftKings killed Vegas by taking the main money-maker of Vegas and putting it on people’s phones.
Yeah, the Vegas shows are generally residencies where a performer goes after they aren’t popular anymore. I think one of the ‘big headline’ shows is still Carrot Top… for whatever reason…
Why don’t they go to the doctor
Americans can’t afford Vegas, and foreigners who could won’t go until Trump and his GeStaPo is history.
And everyone else fears being arrested and visits other countries.
And the chips are one hundred percent on board with it. Wait until Vegas cops learn who really pays their bloated ass salaries and lawsuits.
How much of the 40 fucking billion ICE dollars is going to end up civil lawsuits?
I’d like it to be plenty, but we all know it’s mostly going to private equity firms that own prisons, food, and nazi guard corporations.
