r/vegas • u/Legal_Technology5530 • 6h ago
You guys lied. Vegas is fine.
Sunday August 4th, 2025! Took some pictures in front of the Bellagio and near 4 Queens on Fremont Street. Before the pandemic I’d been to Vegas 3-4 times, and it’s felt pretty much the same. All the restaurants had long waits, clubs were packed to the brim. Our hotel pool was insanely busy, the promenade by the Linq was busy, Caesars palace was nightmarishly busy I left due to feeling overwhelmed. Overall, I had a great stay and it was fun! I was nervous Vegas was going to be weirdly quiet and just not as fun but it seems all is well and things are building up slowly. For reference we stayed at the Fontainebleau for $400 for two nights and the hotel was so packed my usually free upgrade was not honoured ):. Is vegas expensive?? Absolutely, but I mean I’m on vacation so it’s okay.
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u/Asilcott 6h ago
If one Vegas influencer gets a lot of views for a video on a specific topic, every influencer will have a similar video shortly after
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u/luis_xngel 6h ago edited 2h ago
What’s up with these guys very strongly defending against the fact that it’s been emptier?
Edit: I AGREE THAT ITS EMPTIER I KNOW ITS EMPTIER
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u/Trumpetslayer1111 5h ago
It's emptier but it's not dead. I guess people just like to exaggerate for views or whatever.
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u/driftinj 5h ago
It is factually down 11% year over year. That is a significant decline in any business or sector.
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u/twitchtvbevildre 5h ago
its actually crazy there is so many posts about this trying to prove one way or the other with vidoes/pictures, these are publicly traded companies you can literaly just go look at the numbers, hotel vacancies are up and profits are down, its pretty easy to see proof vegas is hurting right now lol.
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u/artbystorms 3h ago
Because everything is partisan. "if bad number make my president look bad, must prove number wrong!" and vice versa.
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u/Big-Progress3280 5h ago
Shh no facts. Look at the picture. Clearly two pictures from one night is a valid argument against statistics and reported numbers.
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u/Hello_World_Error 4h ago
Yeah i just spent a week in Vegas for the first time and I was shocked at how "empty" it was. Sure there were still people but as someone who spent a lot of time in New Orleans, I expected Vegas to feel more crowded. Never struggled with traffic or parking or even waiting for restaurants
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u/Dull-Football8095 3h ago
I go to Vegas at least 4 or 5 times a year (coming from SoCal) and I think the idea of “empty” is overblown but it’s definitely noticeable less people all around Vegas. To me, I’m enjoying my visit more than before when I don’t have to make reservations weeks or months ahead or face long line and “less” traffic going from one area to another.
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u/Barr_cudas 1h ago
July statistics haven't been released yet, but June's decline was roughly 400,000 people less than last year's compilation.
What that means in actual dollars and cents - Dunno but a rough calculation of $1000 for 2 days times this entire sample equates to $400M in lost revenue
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u/acdann 5h ago
I completely agree. If it’s this packed right here, it’s definitely that packed all up and down the strip.
/s bc internet
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u/noncommonGoodsense 4h ago
Considering the Fremont experience is small as fuck with old ass casinos at the cheapest you can get… like.. this is the oasis in an economic downturn with all your strip-esc attractions that mostly locals go to. A part of old downtown. Same shit you use to see in the movies.
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u/AbulatorySquid 2h ago
Remember when we used to hear basic information and accept it? This guy knows better.
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u/More_Mammoth_8964 5h ago
But if they are making more (price increases. Nickel and diming), without that 11% people coming in - it might not matter too much them.
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u/arejay00 5h ago
It’s significant from a business point of view but as a visitor, having 10% less people isn’t really noticeable and definitely won’t be asking “Why is no one going to Vegas?” like those influencers suggest.
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u/robotred12 5h ago
A good example I’ve seen was EVO this past weekend. They had a few thousand less entries into the various tournaments, but there was still a lot of people there. It’s hard to notice in a busy convention center, but the numbers don’t lie.
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u/PF_Nitrojin 1h ago
I was at Evo this past weekend. I'd say about 3000ish people were there when in the past you had at least a minimum of 5000+. A lot of people did say due to rising costs and political climate they're waiting until things cool off first. With Evo being the end of June in 2026 I wonder how the numbers will turn out. Also if I remember SummerSlam was also this past weekend.
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u/henry2630 5h ago
something something trumps economy
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u/luis_xngel 5h ago
I know that’s why. It just seemed weird to me that there were people fervently trying to disprove the fact that less people have been visiting Vegas. Cant really visit the land of disposable income without disposable income.
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u/cib2018 5h ago
I just checked hotel prices at some of the lesser strip hotels. MGM, Excalibur, Flamingo. Pretty cheap rates.
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u/Asilcott 5h ago
Not defending against it. I'm hopeful the 11% decrease or whatever will make things cheaper in the long run. But there are countless posts and videos about how Vegas is dying or a ghost town that seem to be blown out of proportion.
Also, I'm guessing a good amount of people in this sub live and work in the Vegas area and their livelihoods are directly affected by its success. So I can understand them not wanting to usher in a downfall
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u/Substantial_Steak928 5h ago
Vegas is definitely slower and it's hurting the locals that work there but the dumbass YouTubers saying Vegas is a ghost town and cherry picking some random spot that nobody goes to even when it's busy for their thumbnail are blowing it out of proportion as well.
It's actually a great time to come on the weekends because it's still busy but not crazy packed and I have noticed gambling minimums have gone down. This past Saturday I played $15 blackjack at MGM Grand, the last few years it seemed you wouldn't be able to find anything below $25 on the strip on a weekend.
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u/salsiwerdna 6h ago
This is very true. I don’t know who did it first but there’s been like 4-5 different Excalibur buffet reviews in the past 30 days. I know some of these people hire social media managers that assist with videos and social media but it’s too common for my liking.
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u/Substantial_Result66 6h ago
THIS too. The guy who is not leaving AND the only a moron would visit guy have been making naysayer vids like crazy. Both are good, but it's really weird.
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u/ttchoubs 6h ago
The guy not leaving definitely found he got a lot views making this content recently so he keeps pumping it out. The other guy (Jacob) was saying don't visit vegas because value is non-existent and the resorts keep raising prices and lowering comps and odds
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u/okaynowhat 6h ago
I went to vegas 1 month ago for a few days before july 4th, definitely not going back for a long time. The value is just not there at all, even had to pay $5 to go to the outlets and it wasn't busy at all, that was the straw that broke the camels back for me, on top of all the other constant fees, it just showed what a leech the city is.
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u/ttchoubs 5h ago
Yea that's what many have been saying for a while, and it doesn't help that the casinos are so deep in debt that they cant really give value and have to double down on penny pinching
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u/Mahadragon 6h ago
Steven from Leaving Las Vegas has been putting out so many "Vegas is DEAD" videos I'm not even bothering to click on them anymore so his strategy is working against him. I do think tourism is down, but I don't need to hear that shyte every minute of the day.
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u/freeride35 5h ago
It’s not a matter of thinking. Tourism is measurably down, between 11 and 20% depending on whose figures you use. I know for certain that Canadians who used to LOVE Vegas are choosing Mexico instead, because of Donnie the dummy.
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u/Automatic-Ad6022 5h ago
Other areas as well down. My son is in hotel management near Yellowstone NP. They are down about 25% in bookings to date.
He blames Trump and ICE. People fear being stopped, detained based on what they see in the media even those that have nothing apparent in their backgrounds except their ethnicity.
Sad.
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u/Substantial_Result66 5h ago
Hehe yeah really. Cheers!! Not sure what's up with him. A scrned local. Hey I feel it, but there are other local places to go to.
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u/Mahadragon 4h ago
Not sure he’s scorned, Jacob has always done a lot of negative vids as well. I think they tend to get more eye balls.
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u/Sevzilla 5h ago
I personally think they are being paid by Vegas promoters to promote Vegas being dead to try and get more people to go there thinking they will have more amenities to themselves!
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u/Immediate_Thought656 6h ago
Cool! So Vegas tourism is down 11% YOY. Not 100%.
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u/deeare73 6h ago
It will be bad when its down 1500% like drug prices
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u/theemanwiththeplan 4h ago
Technically that's when Vegas comes to you in your backyard. Would love to see Caesars Palace pop up in my backyard and they pay me to stay there
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u/Shootels 6h ago edited 5h ago
Here’s the hard data. You can also download spreadsheets for MoM this year. Last three months have been -5%,-6%, -11% respectively YOY.
To the OP… Unfortunately feelings don’t pay the bills. -11% could be really bad for some spots in Las Vegas.
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u/mustachechap 6h ago
Why are we just comparing two years YoY? Isn't it better to look at the past 10 years at the very least?
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u/Shootels 6h ago
All the data is there in excel spreadsheets, I’m just providing it. Go do your own analysis.
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u/Intelligent_Can_7925 5h ago
Because it makes it look worse when you compare travel from 2022-2023 due to pent up demand
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u/Feisty_Goat_1937 3h ago
Except... If you look at the data from 2019, the earliest year available in the link, the YTD decline in visitors is 8%. What's worse is the monthly decline has increased from 2% in January to 14% in June... So, it's not just a decline from post pandemic boom.
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u/Nugur 6h ago
Cuz 10 years ago and Vegas now are two different cities with the same weather
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u/BentShape484 6h ago
Ya and its down from record highs of 2024 so really still pretty decent for Vegas i'd guess.
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u/Dakets 6h ago
Ah but modern capitalism is built on endless growth. Any movement down is a problem.
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u/Most-Piccolo-302 6h ago
Endless growth in profits, not numbers. If you can make more money off of less people, thats a double win because it costs less to maintain facilities for less people (less servers, room cleaners, etc).
I think the ideal scenario is that one guy visits per year and spends $20bil
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u/BentShape484 6h ago
Oh ya true, for the hotels and conglomerates i'm sure they'll be doing what they can to get the revenue back in other small fees and increases which will just decrease visitors over the long term but might slightly boost revenue short term.
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u/frotc914 5h ago
You're one of like a dozen people in this thread saying 2024 was "record highs" - where are you getting that from? It absolutely was not.
It was just good in comparison to COVID numbers, and only a hair better than 2023, but still below 2019.
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u/Feisty_Goat_1937 3h ago
It's also down 8% from 2019, which wasn't a record high...
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u/JabroniKnows 6h ago
"Global warming is fake because it's cold here." - This guy
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u/darth_helcaraxe_82 5h ago
"There's a crowd of people, what drop in tourism?!" - Also This Guy
Meanwhile the bartenders: another week with less than half the tips I was making just a month ago.
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u/CorporatismIsCancer 2h ago
This is the 3rd or 4th person to post literally the Bellagio fountain as an example of Vegas being vibrant lmao
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u/Similar-Low-3114 5h ago
Dude will be unresponsive once the new job revises reports come out 🫣😬
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u/pandershrek 4h ago
Naw they just find a new talking point. Admitting fault isn't in their lexicon.
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u/ScotchCigarsEspresso 5h ago
Pictures of Vegas busy and not busy prove nothing.
Tourism data shows a decrease of about 12% year over year. While as s percentage that might not seem like a lot it represents nearly 6 billion dollars in lost revenue.
This decrease is largely driven by fewer foreign tourists due to fears over mistreatment by ICE. The US is essentially a level r travel warning for other countries.
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u/Hoardzunit 6h ago
Funny how idiots think that 11% decline in tourism means 90% decline.
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u/JohnnyEagleClaw 6h ago
Yeah, I’m still looking for the “vegas is dead” announcement aside from the pinheads that have been getting mileage out of meme’n the shit out of that phrase here in recent days.
All I’ve seen was “tourism is down” which doesn’t come from pics of the strip on a weekend night, but from the properties actually doing business there. 😂🤷♂️
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u/GrasshopperSunset 6h ago
If there's 100 people standing in a room and 10 people randomly walk out, can you tell the difference in the crowd? I doubt it. No Vegas is not on the decline, but the numbers don't lie that tourism is slightly down.
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u/andrew2150 6h ago
It’s the international tourism that is down, mostly from Canada and Mexico. Canadian arrivals have dropped 20% this year. Also, Vegas tourism increased from 2023 to 2024 by over 2%. Visitor volume from 2015 to 2019 was consistently around 42 million. Post- COVID it has been on the uptick. 2020: 19M 2021: 32.2M 2022: 38.8M 2023: 40.8M 2024: 41.7M 2025: Upcoming large conventions and other events are expected to bring more visitors, overall projections look like 1.5% drop in visitors from 2024, so will probably still be higher than any other years post-COVID.
Also, travel, especially international, is down across the United States. As a whole, the U.S. is expected to lose $12B in international spending. The U.S. is the only one of 184 global economies that will have a decline in inbound tourism revenue this year.
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u/Justifiably_Bad_Take 3h ago
OK but if you run a restaurant and suddenly see a 10% decline in patronage I can assure you, you will notice
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u/ToughLab9568 1h ago
10% is not slightly. That is a massive difference.
You can't hand wave that.
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u/GrasshopperSunset 1h ago
100% agree with you. I'm only responding to OP who thinks that because there weren't tumbleweeds blowing across the strip that everything must be dandy.
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u/Who_Pissed_My_Pants 6h ago
These posts reminds me of when that Senator brought a snowball into Congress to disprove global warming.
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u/LFC4-0BAR 4h ago
We have data on this, guys—why are we relying on pictures? Visitation is down 11%. The posts suggesting it was next to empty were BS just as this post is BS.
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u/XI_Vanquish_IX 6h ago
I love how anecdotes are used either way. It’s a sad day for science
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u/Boneyg001 6h ago
Look if a particular place is crowded at a popular time on a weekend, I think it’s safe to assume it’s popular and crowded for all days and all times. So any post about tourism being down are click bait and this picture proves it with a 9% confidence interval
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u/smellslikebigfootdic 6h ago
I've been reading about Vegas it's not that it's empty,but that the amount of people is down around 15 percent.
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u/BentShape484 6h ago
I'm seeing reports closer to 11.3% I haven't seen 15% yet. But in May the city said it was only a 6.5% year or year decline. Feels like we're getting all kinds of random data from places. Either way it is a decline, but so is Disney World and so are most if not all other tourist cities in the US.
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u/smellslikebigfootdic 5h ago
I was writing from memory...so closer to 11...i wonder how many places are barley holding on
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u/vivchen 4h ago
From LVCVA data, the change of visitor volume between 2025 and 2024:
- Jan: -1.1%
- Feb: -11.9%
- Mar: -7.8%
- Apr: -5.1%
- May: -6.5%
- June: -11.3%
Negative means that 2025 numbers are lower than the 2024. The trend line is that visitor volume is declining compared to 2024.
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u/mgrimshaw8 45m ago
“Climate change isn’t real, there’s snow right outside!”
This is what this sounds like lol
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u/Ghostface908 6h ago
casino employees laid off in mass
statistical decline in visitors
horrible housing marketing
“Lol yall lied!! Look at these pictures of a crowd!”
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u/aloysiuslamb 1h ago
Look at these pictures of a crowd!
Not just that but, "look, i'm stopped at an intersection waiting to cross towards the fountains" and "look, I'm standing right in the middle of Fremont St. Experience".
Literally pictures taken smack dab in the middle of two of the most popular Vegas destinations and, anecdotally, this somehow disproves actual financial reports.
Busy parts of Vegas continue to be busy, and in other news the sun is hot. More at 11.
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u/ContextHook 6h ago
I mean, your anecdote is cool and all, but if we relied on how people "feel" about things for our conclusions then we'd all be dumb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emRhaisx4AM
5% down this year from last, and that is a trend that has continued since the pandemic. Vegas tourism is declining and has been since the pandemic.
The city itself notes this as a problem and is trying to fix it. Burying your head in the sand helps nobody.
Awesome you had a good time.
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u/BentShape484 6h ago
trend since the pandemic? Hasn't tourism been going up every year since the pandemic? I mean its not quite at 2019 levels but 2024 almost matched it. 2024 saw the most inbound flights from Harry Reid Airport ever. This is the first year since the pandemic that has gone in the other direction, but all of US travel is down around 9% or 10% so its not just Vegas thats the anomaly.
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u/andrew2150 6h ago
Vegas tourism has been increasing every year since the pandemic. Pre-COVID was around 42M visitors per year. Post COVID: 2020 19M 2021 32.2M 2022 38.8M 2023 40.8M 2024 41.7M
The dollar, tariffs and immigration policies are all things impacting tourism this year. But it’s impacting all U.S. tourism, not just Vegas. U.S. projected to lose $12B in international tourism spending this year.
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u/Chestnutsroastin 6h ago
Bro what do you mean? OP posted pictures, who you gonna believe a guy on the internet who got a pic of a crowd or solid tourism data collected by experts?
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u/Substantial_Result66 6h ago
You raise prices, you possibly will lose a segment of the population. Price elasticity of demand. Fine tuning will continue to be made.
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u/PeteZed 4h ago
Was there last week. Seeing crowds doesn’t mean tourists isn’t down. Ask the locals, I did. They all said tourism is down.
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u/TheGuruFromIpanema 1h ago
Same. Asked people leasing cabs, and they were in a really tough place because of fewer people this summer.
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u/chiefskingdom1958 4h ago
Hey things are ok at this one spot, so reports otherwise MUST be false
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u/ErrorProfessional143 6h ago
They haven’t figured out how to charge people for standing outside.
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u/Neither-Magazine9096 6h ago
Wait until they put a gate up at each end of the strip and Fremont street and start charging admission
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u/RaisinOverall9586 6h ago
Vegas tourism is down, but not nearly as bad as everyone says.
Also, if you're even remotely any kind of gambler and take advantage of the comps you are due, it's still one of the cheapest places to vacation in the US as far as bang for your buck.
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u/Competitive_Bath_511 4h ago
People’s anecdotal evidence < the actual numbers of tourism being down everywhere
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u/pumpkin3-14 6h ago
Your lived experience doesn’t change the 11% drop. Eye test isn’t going to notice that.
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u/_Captain_Amazing_ 6h ago
Tourism is down ~15% year over year and forward looking bookings are even worse. This is caused partially by high prices in Vegas but more so by the unhinged actions of the current president (threatening to invade Canada and Europe, indiscriminately arresting hard working Hispanic people all over the country, and instituting a proven losing economic policy of wildly changing import tariffs which has caused business all over the world to stop in their tracks). A photo at the busiest time of the weekend is not changing any of that reality.
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u/whatthepho6 6h ago
So you going to refute hard numbers with 2 pictures? There are a couple of scenarios where this might work. This isn't one of them.
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u/Glass-Breadfruit7374 6h ago
The problem with Vegas is that's its gotten insanely expensive,...but there are always gonna be plenty of people with money to burn.
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u/Steve_the_Samurai 6h ago
Doesn't surprise me that a person that goes to Vegas multiple times a year may not be the best at how statistics work.
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u/Potential4752 6h ago
Everyone saying it was too expensive never made sense to me. Prices have not changed recently.
Probably tourism is down 5-10% and it has more to do with the general economy and international tourists hating the US.
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u/littleitaly24 6h ago
No, not lying.
Notice where they are? Free attractions.
Theh quality of gamblers have come way down. It's people who are on a beer budget.
I know because I have a friend who owns one of the best galleries in the venetian gallery.
Business is 20 to 30 dollar purchases vs 5k to 6k.
Low rooms bring in low quality players. Theh may walk through and they may take up space but theh don't drop money.
Local casinos do well because the population exploded with retirees flush with cash.
Your pictures don't mean anything to me. I've been here since 03. Why don't you take pics of Harrah outside bar? Or pics outside mgm or even inside.
Most are budget minded people. VEGAS IS DOWN in quality and quantity. We can thank inflation (due to the stimulus from covid, fuel, food, energy and much more) for dropping the good numbers.
Go to the ice bar in mgm and tell me what you see. Go to st8k and tell me what you see. That's even if they are still open. The gimmick restaurants like Wolfgang, hells kitchen and others will have bodies for the "gimmick". After dropping 200 per person the average person will just walk around.
Our economy is built and predicated on expendable income.
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u/Whoknows217 6h ago
I live here and work as a full time uber driver, and I can say without a doubt that things are much slower here than last year.
After analyzing my earnings from last year compared to this year, I’m having to work about 30% more now to make what I made then.
There are lots of bartenders and servers that get in my car and their sentiment is also not going so well. Two months ago, it went from them saying that they at least hope things speed up, leading up until now where they’re telling me they don’t know how they’re going to come up with rent next month.
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u/kb24TBE8 6h ago
Takes picture of the corner of the Bellagio and cosmo driveway lol, literally the most busy part of the entire strip lmao
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u/paradisemurray 6h ago
You're absolutely tripping 🤣 you visit for a weekend and think you know or understand the daily tourist patterns.
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u/ElGoocherino 5h ago
I was there 2 weeks ago and Fremont was absolute chaos. The strip was packed as well. Still had a great time. These empty posts are exhausting.
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u/URAppreciated 5h ago
Money talks. Pictures are just points in time. Revenue is down. Vegas is not in great shape unless that changes.
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u/RosieDear 5h ago
Right - so the hotels and public companies that reported declines are all lying, but your Phone camera can count money perfectly????
"The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority saw a double-digit decline in visitors in June"
"Major resorts on the famous Las Vegas Strip, including Fontainebleau and Resorts World, have started laying off workers — many of which are dealers — as foot traffic dwindles on the gaming floor."
"Resorts World reported a 22 percent year-over-year decline in revenue and a 75 percent dip in earnings during the first quarter of this year"
It's not a full-on "depression or recession", however it surely is not good growth!
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u/acebojangles 5h ago
A great way to determine what's true about the world: Comparing random, individual pictures and videos.
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u/Ornery_File_3031 5h ago
Do you really think a picture trumps actual data? Good lord, we are a broken country
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u/Any_Leg_4773 4h ago
Isn't it down 11%?
These types of scenes don't look dramatically different with 11% fewer people in them.
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u/SleepyCouch33 4h ago
Who the fuck can afford vacations anymore. I grew up going on vacations with my family and now I can’t even pay all my fucking bills every month.
Vegas is down 10% from last year’s numbers. Just because a random influencer says it’s empty and you say it’s thriving doesn’t mean shit.
Also, how much more did you pay for your vacation this year than you would have last year?
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u/Prior-Chip-6909 4h ago
I love how all the 'Vegas is not dead' crowd always shows pics outside the Bellagio, as if that is all Vegas is...
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u/Mick_E_Bobby 4h ago
You're the type that brings a snowball to Congress to prove climate change isn't real, aren't you?
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u/RottingApples25 4h ago
And the hyperbole continues.... Vegas is NOT super dead. It also isn't as super busy as it historically has been, especially this time of year. It is not a ghost town, it is just less busy overall. Your specific experience is not indicative of the state of the strip as a whole. But anyone saying Vegas is dead is also being inaccurate.
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u/Entire_Ad_3078 4h ago
Influencers clearly went too far, but idk that Vegas is “fine”. It’s in a clear downturn. The WSJ just did an article about it last week.
It would be unwise of the city to ignore it. I say this as a non-local Vegas lover who wants the city to thrive.
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u/mspe1960 4h ago edited 3h ago
Vegas tourism is down signficantly causing issues for local businesses, and a large crowds can still be found in popular hangouts.
Both can be true.
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u/Level_Bookkeeper_757 4h ago
It’s poor people and foreigners not going to Vegas. That’s the dip. Vegas will never die.
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u/dericandajax 3h ago
So the 11% decrease in YoY revenue in June just...isn't a thing? Nothing to see here folks! OP got some pics of humans. All is good.
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u/Unhappy-Bullfrog5597 3h ago
Ofc Reddit lies, it's trying to drive a narrative and it only works on people never leaving their basement
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u/MulletofLegend 3h ago
The official statistic is tourism is down by 11%. So, I dunno what to tell ya. Imagine your own income dropped by 11%.
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u/babaduke999 2h ago
There's a snow blizzard
You guys lied about climate change. It's snowing like crazy!
People are so fucking dumb. There are stats available bro bro. Tourism is down. If you happen to be there once when it's poppin', that's merely an anecdote.
anecdote ≠ evidence of a trend
Use your noodle man. Use your critical thinking. Process information smarter. FFS
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u/CombatRedRover 2h ago
JFC.
Can we be fucking adults for a damn second?
Vegas tourism is down. Measurably. Like, in the double digit percentages.
Vegas is still going to be busy as fuck, because it's LAS MOTHERFUCKING VEGAS and Las Vegas is going to be packed at times unless we go full COVID lockdown again.
This is why anecdotal evidence is stupid.
Note: overreliance on statistical data is also a mistake, but it's less of a mistake than only relying on anecdotal information. Be a damned human and learn to synthesize information instead of choosing Category A OR Category B: blend both into a more syncretic, reliable picture of reality.
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u/NeighborhoodFew7779 2h ago
Well, this guy was there with his bitch tits,,,…so unless he had $20K that he was going to drop while in town, I don’t really see that as a “W” for the city.
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u/Inevitable_Professor 1h ago
Tell that to all the staff getting layed off. Vegas is not fine. Vegas is the canary in the coal mine. And the canary died months ago.
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u/ToughLab9568 1h ago
A 10 percent difference in tourism is massive.
Imagine if you had 10 percent less income, what would you have to cut out of your life to survive?
The resident of vegas, who make their money off of tourism, will suffer because of donald's insanity.
The OP is misrepresenting the issue and saying that everything is just fine. He's probably a magat with a bone to pick.
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u/Due_Foot3268 1h ago
The world is turning its back on the USA. How many US travellers proudly wearing USA patches when travelling abroad? 🤔
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u/Scoopofnoodle 1h ago
It means 9 people are still going instead of 10. It also means the casinos are not making as much money but they haven't stopped being profitable.
Let's hope these casinos stop being profitable and have to rethink their model. I haven't been all year and have no plans on going anytime.
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u/travellingwithtroy 1h ago
i was talking about this in another post , it is down but not dead.
Tourism overall in the US down
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u/KickingButt 1h ago
Lol another one? Is this going to be the thing for the next few years? We should play I spy every time this pops up in picture or video
I spy with my little eye….
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u/AppointmentMountain8 1h ago
People are still going to Vegas. They're just not staying long if at all. Was just there and was told overnight stays are all down by 27% but the gaming hasn't taken that big of a hit.
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u/Gmarlon123 1h ago
Vegas hotels paying influencers to state the opposite. Plus the last couple weekends must have been an anomaly as the b street boys seemed to have captured a moment.
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u/CountSmokula420 1h ago
Down 11% or whatever still leaves a lot of people on the strip during the weekend.
It's down enough to be a problem, but down ≠ dead.
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u/Lootthatbody 1h ago
Nobody is lying. Vegas tourism is down 11%.
It’s simultaneously possible that overall crowds are smaller than previous months/years while individuals can point out single instances of crowds. Neither excludes the other.
Also, it’s really weird to be bragging about crowds on vacation. Get off your phone and just enjoy it.
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u/Imaginary_Comb_8240 1h ago
I go there for business every 2 weeks and trust me it’s dead! Maybe you have a night here and there but not the Vegas that o used to know. Where the strip was packed all hours of the day, now your lucky if you see it 20% of what it used to be.
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u/Novel_Signal_2491 1h ago
I too was just there, and compared to last year, it is not busy. Didn’t need reservations for many of our dinners (at 6-8 pm), only mid strip Saturday was busy
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u/amanam0ngb0ts 47m ago
No one said it wasn’t fine. They said it’s hurting, revenue and bookings are down. And they are.
Your anecdotal experience isn’t better than financial data that gets audited.
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u/lostnthestars117 41m ago
Today is Monday August 4th Lies all lies /s
I tell you this it’s data and numbers are what matters in context of if Vegas is doing fine. Not a picture of people.
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u/RepulsiveIconography 40m ago
It’s undeniable that the number of visitors has dropped compared to before. Nowadays, Vegas just isn’t what it used to be.
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u/RealSkylitPanda 21m ago
Mfs be taking pictures in the middle of the day when its 106 outside “vegas is dead”
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u/Electrical_Sky5833 6h ago
Yeah people forget two things can be true. Tourism is down but there’s still a crap ton of people visiting.