Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley issued a heartfelt plea to Canadian visitors this week, acknowledging the city’s tourism-dependent economy is suffering from a dramatic decline in international visitors, particularly from Canada, which represents the city’s largest international market.
“As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,” Berkley said during a press conference this week, where she addressed the multiple challenges facing the entertainment capital’s tourism industry.
The mayor’s latest comments echo concerns she first raised in an August press conference, where she painted a stark picture of the tourism decline.
“International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’
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Same here. I’m much darker than my own mother and have spent a lot of time during my childhood in the 70s and 80s being asked if my parents had an “interracial marriage”, oh AND I have tattoos ( god forbid, but dark people with tattoos are seen as gang members by the current administration.) I haven’t traveled outside this country since pre-COVID and I believe the next time I’m able to afford it, I’m going somewhere that will allow me to stay permanently. The current administration terrifies and angers me, and the other side not doing anything about it has me wondering why I’m still here.