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...this feels strange, but not nearly as strange as talking to Robert Goulet about it, especially on three hours of sleep. "You beggar, it's not Sin City," he says. "It's Fun City." He has a point. It's a Vegas where the average tourist gambles only four hours in his four-day stay. That's fine with the casinos, since today they make more on rooms, drinks, food, shopping and entertainment--the stuff they used to give away to get you to gamble...
...County each month, bulging the population to 1.6 million and overstretching the police, fire fighters, hospitals and schools. The unemployment rate is more than a third below the national average, and there's more construction than in any other city in the U.S. It's the country's top tourist and convention spot, with Vegas taking in more money from conventions ($6.5 billion) than gambling ($6.1 billion...
...hotel about 15 minutes from the Strip that is the choice for celebrities who are too cool for the crowds. As in the Palms, the casino--which is on a different floor from the lobby and contains a food court--is for local regulars and the rooms are for tourist regulars. The Fertittas are building an even nicer hotel called Red Rock Station Resort and Casino, which they say will flood natural light into the casino. "It's way too competitive for that old-style casino of no bathrooms in restaurants and no TVs in the rooms," says Lorenzo, referring...
...weirdest part of Vegas, with all its clean bawdiness, is that for a tourist town, it looks as if it might be developing a real urban center, where people not only party but meet, live and perhaps form the kind of community Vegas has never had--one in which people no longer change their cell-phone numbers every six months to escape from attachments, debts and exes. Real estate companies are racing to put up 20-story condo towers near the Strip. "People want to own a piece of Vegas," says Jeff Soffer, 36, principal owner of Miami-based Turnberry...
...house hazing and Mel Gibson films as the world's most homoerotic event. And while the hooting crowd is clearly loving it, my front-row seats are reminding me just how weak my stomach is. With all its clean bawdiness, the weirdest part of Vegas is that, for a tourist town, it looks as if it might be growing a real urban center, where people not only party but meet, live and perhaps form the kind of community Vegas has never had - one in which people no longer change cell-phone numbers every six months to escape from debts...