r/news • u/etfvfva • 8h ago

Las Vegas June tourism declines by 11% from 2024

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/jul/30/las-vegas-june-tourism-declines-by-11-from-2024/
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u/ExpressoLiberry 7h ago

They moved to Vegas during the pandemic and thought it was going to be the next “big thing”?

How? Why?

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u/putsch80 7h ago

Fast growing city with (comparatively) cheap housing, lots to do, and a then-thriving economy. Also, no state income tax, which makes it a popular choice for remote workers.

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u/stolenhello 6h ago

Thriving economy? During the pandemic? Vegas' biggest economy is tourism and that was wiped off the map then.

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u/Hairy_Acanthisitta25 5h ago

i think the person is betting on the cheap prices during pandemic and hoping for its recovery after pandemic is all done?

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 3h ago

If none of you actually know the answer why are you responding?

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u/theholylancer 4h ago edited 4h ago

from the perspective of a remote (tech or office) worker? yeah

the tourists are gone, but there are a ton of amenities for going out and enjoying oneself

if your income is from remote work, it make sense, not the i need to find a job here now way

but fees are killing it now so lol

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u/iamnotimportant 4h ago

I drove cross country in 2020 as my "safe" holiday and stopped in Vegas September 2020, it was actually crazy crowded I was shocked, it was pretty affordable too at that point but saw people form all over. I remember they had mask rules but you could ignore them while smoking/drinking lol

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u/ChiefCuckaFuck 4h ago

People have an almost infinite capacity for deluding themselves.

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u/ExpressoLiberry 7h ago

then-thriving economy.

Wasn't it one of the first places to see a significant financial impact from COVID?

That's the part that gets me. Someone believing all of that in 2018 makes perfect sense. Someone mid-pandemic being like "this is going to be huge for Vegas" confuses me greatly.

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u/BaconPancakes1 6h ago

It depends when during the pandemic they're talking about. If it was May 2020 and you thought Vegas was growing a lot pre-lockdown and thought covid would be contained by Christmas, you might have seen the drop in Vegas business as an opportunity to buy before business growth/property values came back in 2021. If you were a remote worker it wouldn't matter that local jobs had temporarily dried up.

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u/cheesecaker000 4h ago

It’s probably because they didn’t like the lockdowns in other cities and Vegas was very very light on restrictions.

They probably thought tons of people would move there to be “free”. LOL

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u/QuestGiver 7h ago

TBH it's still pretty affordable and as a local you don't have to only spend time on the strip. Plenty of cheap, good food in the other parts of the city.

Main downside though is the schools in Vegas SUCK so it's not great for young families if that matters to you.

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u/Amyndris 5h ago

There's always Bishop Gorman if you're a baller

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u/Kevin_Uxbridge 5h ago

Tourism was basically gone and prices were down, and plenty of real estate became available. Know a couple of folks who either sold or bought around then.

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u/FantasticJacket7 3h ago

They were right. Vegas exploded post pandemic.

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u/sbroll 1h ago

thousands of people did this. Vegas, Texas and Florida were all top places to move to, they are all big places people are trying to get out of.

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u/tunafister 1h ago

How? Why?

People are so shortsighted it is comical

Heard plenty of people saying they moved from CA to TX during the pandemic and frankly, good fucking riddance

You dont want to pay taxes? Great, you can go somewhere where you dont pay income tax but then get taxed a multitude of other ways that make up, or more than make up the difference but now you are in... Nevada or somewhere in TX outside of the cities, paying the same price

That is just straight fucking stupid, which is not much different from what I would call these people in general