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 ?
Pls respond
Maybe it would help if our President wasn’t threatening Canadian sovereignty, and the cult wasn’t cheering it on.
Here is my most Canadian reaction.
Bwahahahahahaaaaa… No.
Et pour l’autre langue officielle:
Honhonhonghonhooon… Non.
Je t’ai upvoté dans les deux langues
Merci pour respecter l’autre langue!
If she wants tourism, she must make a promise: that ICE will be arrested on sight, and that the Nevada State Guard will stand strong against any National Guard unit that is enforcing totalitarianism.
Basically the exact opposite statement has already been made
The mayor of Las Vegas is a democrat, not a member of the face-eating leopards party. I’m too busy to look it up right now but I’m going to bet that the Las Vegas City and surrounding county is probably one of the most consistently Democratic parts of Nevada. Of course Canadians should still stay away. Any non-american should just not come, but this is not lamf
Las Vegas is effectively the only part of Nevada with people in it.
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.
Just hold on a bit longer. Trump is desperately trying to turn his shit deals into art.
This will drag down the entire state of Nevada.
Taking a step away from the reasons this is happening, perhaps it’s not a good idea to have a place that’s so dependent on tourism money. Cities should be city first, travel destination second.
You’re way too late to that party.
Perhaps. Progress doesn’t need to be incremental. Vegas has supported the tourism industry for decades. The levers of power could be used to turn the tables and have the industry support the city for a change. It’s not like the money isn’t there.
I’m not Canadian but I’d still like to say go fuck yourself, Vegas mayor
Je ne suis pas Canadien mais quand-même j’aimerais dire va te faire foutre, maire de végas
“We have a number of very high rollers that come in from Mexico that aren’t so keen on coming in right now”
I wonder why. /s
From what I’ve been reading here, sounds a lot that they activelly brought in multiple leopards: an anti-foreigner out of control Fascist regime and very high prices.
That’s like commiting suicide with both barrels of a two barrel shotgun.
Didn’t they vote for trump?
“We love you, we need you, we miss you.” Said the abuser after you start to leave them…
MAGA can make up for it.
Good keep it up.
