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Plus you know the whole if you're from a foreign country they'll arrest you and throw you in a concentration camp.

Not only that but you could wind up in a concentration camp as several people already have from Canada and the EU.

Pretty sure this is almost entirely about current US government. I seriously considered touring US this year, but for obvious reasons I feel safer travelling to China.

Well it can't be hostility to foreigners or the cost of living skyrocketing to the stratosphere, because there's no way that could ever happen. Must be the Democrat's fault. Thanks Obama.

Don't forget the collapse of international tourism as well. It's a double whammy.

13% fewer international travelers, potentially (but unlikely) larger number in total

I think a partial explanation can be that for most international tourists a visit to the USA is a major trip that gets planned well in advance. Easily half or even a full year ahead. Things only really got bad in the last few months, so we might still see many holidays that were planned before the madness fully set in. If that is the case I'd expect a continued decline in the future, where people choose another destination when deciding their next itinerary.

I wouldn't be surprised if Vegas wasn't a huge international destination except for the super rich. It's a really long way to go to gamble, and there's a good or better attractions in other US cities.

After bankrupting his own casinos he's expanding his reach.

add it to the list of moronic shit he's done that's bankrupting the USA

He's killed the US business like he's killed every single business is greasy ass fingers have strangled

Call me crazy but we shouldn’t be building cities in the middle of the desert anyway.

At some point they broke the compact. You come, you get a $30-per-night hotel and a $8 steak dinner because the rest of the money is going into the machines/tables. That's why so many of the attractions used to be the gawkable buildings and public shows-- you could still enjoy them if you had blown your budget.

I guess they pivoted away, but to what? There are whales who want a $5000-per-night suite but you can't fill an entire 30-story building with them (especially when there are 50 such buildings within walking distance all chasing them)

I went in May and even cheap meals were over $10, the low-mid priced Fremont Street hotel was around a hundred bucks a night, and the one show I went to was 1/3 full probably because it was $75 for an act that's been running for decades. I budgeted $1000 to gamble but ended up only dropping 350 because it felt like it wasn't much I couldn't see in the local Native-reservation casino.

I will say nothing but good things for the Pinball Hall of Fame though.

That didn't happen in 4 months though. I wonder what changed, hmmmm.

Right now they're trying to bulldoze Coney Island, aka "The People's Playground" and a historic icon, to replace it with a shitty casino. No one wants it, but the money must flow. The parent corp is paying off people and using shitty tactics to try to fake support for it, but they've also pissed off a massive community of artists and activists who have been fighting tooth and nail against it.

We already lost the streets. The city gave them to a greedy corporation that has bought and ruined multiple historic buildings over the last two decades. Eric Adams has a hand in all of this.

Below is their plan. See the little building circled in red? That's home to a museum, a theater, a cultural pillar and events organizer, and the last permanently housed circus sideshow in quite possibly the world. It's got historic protected status. They're trying to engulf us.

If you've read this far, please spread the word. This is my performance home. If you live near NY, sign the petition

50 is insane already, these are cancelled non-refunded holidays.

I just spent a week there for work and I can't think of a reason to ever visit it's so ludicrously expensive. Anything that would cost $10 in normal society and that's overpriced by $5 is at least 20 in Vegas.

Edit: It’s funny, I’ve noticed they’ve really seemed to prioritise hiring Canadian developers in the last few years. I’ve always wondered if it’s because they feel they can pay us less

I have no idea why, but Canadian IT professionals earn a fraction of their US counterparts. I can tell you its not a skill gap either. I've worked with many amazingly brilliant Canadian IT professionals. Its a great untapped market for global talent. Prior to trump, I saw it as a huge asset to American companies to have access to such a highly skilled work force, working in our same time zones, speaking the same language, but costing half of an American salary (or less!). However, trump killed that. I very much miss my Canadian brothers and sisters in IT.

They’re also replacing table games with slots and even making craps and roulette better for the casinos.

I didn’t want to go to Vegas before, but now? Never.