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. “’
Great yet ?
Now I’m curious, why would Las Vegas be inclined to vote Dem?
A lot of union jobs work at the casinos. You also have a higher than average performance sector.
A huge proportion of the actual residents of Vegas and the surrounding areas are service workers, since it’s a tourist hub. Because of this, service worker unions in the area have a pretty sizable influence, and they tend to endorse Democratic candidates. In the most recent election I suspect that this influence was partially offset by (1) COVID tourism revenue loss being blamed on Biden and (2) Trump’s illusory promise of no tax on tips.