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Benjamin Spillman Gaming Guru - Page 16Study suggests more taxes for road upgrades17 March 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Taxes or traffic. It's that simple.
If Americans don't pony up more of the former, they better get used to more of the latter.
That's according to authors of a massive report on the state of the nation's roads, rails and ports.
The bad news is the country's infrastructure ... (read more)
ConExpo-Con/Agg the biggest of the big17 March 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The best way to grasp the magnitude of the biggest convention in Las Vegas is to look down at it from the sky.
Fortunately, the ConExpo-Con/Agg show at the Las Vegas Convention Center includes a few dozen cranes parked in the parking lot to provide such a view.
The ... (read more)
Back to school, major in slots17 March 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Even with nearly 40 million visitors a year, the casino floors of Las Vegas can be lonely places. Just ask Richard Gomez, a slot-machine attendant at a Euro-themed Strip resort since 1999.
Gomez, 70, watched casinos trade coin-operated slot machines for ticket-based devices. ... (read more)
Expo examines how trade shows can get a little greener14 March 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Imagine furnishing hundreds of thousands of square feet of space with carpeting, furniture and decorative screening.
Now imagine doing it dozens of times annually at sites as far-flung as Orlando, Fla.; Seattle and Las Vegas.
That's how the trade show and convention business works. ... (read more)
Authority pushes impulse in ad blitz12 March 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- It's hard to think about gambling, boozing and eating at fancy restaurants with bills piling up and creditors circling the neighborhood.
That's where the Las Vegas marketing machine steps in.
On Tuesday, Las Vegas boosters announced they will spend as much as $12 million to keep ... (read more)
Deal puts Binion's in local hands11 March 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel is back under local ownership after the close of a deal that netted more than $28 million for the Fremont Street property's former owners.
On Monday, TLC Casino Enterprises, a company run by Four Queens owner Terry Caudill, announced it had ... (read more)
Travel and tourism: Monthly airport traffic decreases5 March 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Early evidence of Las Vegas visitation levels in 2008 shows fewer people coming to Las Vegas, at least by air.
Traffic at McCarran International Airport fell 2.8 percent in January to about 3.6 million arrivals and departures.
The starkest decline among the top air carriers in ... (read more)
Airports facing rising costs see no relief ahead4 March 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- America's airports shouldn't look to Congress for help solving air travel problems that could cost billions of dollars to fix, at least not this year.
That was the message Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., sent a group of airport officials meeting this week in Las Vegas.
The ... (read more)
Las Vegas downtown snaps long slide3 March 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Gamblers lost nearly $632.9 million in downtown Las Vegas casinos in 2007, slightly more than the year before, ending a three-year slide for the historic Glitter Gulch gambling market.
But the operator of the Golden Nugget, the biggest and fanciest casino in the Fremont Street ... (read more)
Backers pitch redevelopment of neglected Moulin Rouge26 February 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Backers of a proposal to revive the long-defunct Moulin Rouge casino said Monday they are undaunted by the prospect of placing a $700 million bet on a troubled Las Vegas neighborhood.
The project is an attempt to revive a casino that operated for less than a year in 1955, but ... (read more)
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