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Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley issued a heartfelt plea to Canadian visitors this week, acknowledging the city’s tourism-dependent economy is suffering from a dramatic decline in international visitors, particularly from Canada, which represents the city’s largest international market.

“As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,” Berkley said during a press conference this week, where she addressed the multiple challenges facing the entertainment capital’s tourism industry.

The mayor’s latest comments echo concerns she first raised in an August press conference, where she painted a stark picture of the tourism decline.

“International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’

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[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I can't believe that threatening Canadians didn't make them want to come to the US and spend all their money.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

"Come to Las Vegas! Win a free trip to El Salvador if you accidentally get swept up in an ICE raid!"

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Fascism is unpopular.

Shocking I'm sure.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 24 points 2 days ago

Canadian here. Nice try, ICE.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol.

Did they think owning the libs was going to be free?

[–] TotalCourage007@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Must be nice winning so much they went full ouroboros. Fucking simpletons.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Here is my most Canadian reaction.

Bwahahahahahaaaaa... No.

Et pour l'autre langue officielle:

Honhonhonghonhooon... Non.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Je t’ai upvoté dans les deux langues

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 11 points 2 days ago

Merci pour respecter l'autre langue!

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[–] Outlawstar@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I'm American, have never been to Vegas and was planning a trip. Then all my bills went up. My insurance alone tripled. I now fear traveling state to state as I don't trust the police in red states so no driving through them. I no longer trust the TSA to not arrest me for what I post online so no more flying. I think I will stay right here for the foreseeable future as travel just isn't important to me right now. Would I love to travel? Yes. I need to feel safe and secure in it and to not be financially ruined by it. Right now I just need to focus on making sure my housing and food is secured. I don't have time or security to focus on anything else.

[–] Venefica@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Same here. I’m much darker than my own mother and have spent a lot of time during my childhood in the 70s and 80s being asked if my parents had an “interracial marriage”, oh AND I have tattoos ( god forbid, but dark people with tattoos are seen as gang members by the current administration.) I haven’t traveled outside this country since pre-COVID and I believe the next time I’m able to afford it, I’m going somewhere that will allow me to stay permanently. The current administration terrifies and angers me, and the other side not doing anything about it has me wondering why I’m still here.

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[–] etherphon@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Las Vegas is a city built for a different era, and we're not in that era any more. I really don't see it re-surging, at least until Trump allows fights to the death at MGM Grand. Kinda /s.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

It could come back, but it won't be the same Vegas. They're trying hard to pivot.

Gambling needs to take a back seat to entertainment. It's chock full of stuff to do, the Sphere, the Dam, the canyons, the desert, family-friendly shows, Area-15, and they're cleaning up the strip.

They just need the US to be on the menu for tourism again and that's not going to happen with all this motions to everything going on.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

Good. Its working then.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Maybe it would help if our President wasn't threatening Canadian sovereignty, and the cult wasn't cheering it on.

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[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was just in the city. Everyone was telling me how bad it got. I had a great time. Didn’t have to make a reservation for the Wynn buffet. I just walked right in. Then the Uber drivers were telling how bad things have got for them. From 15k a week to maybe 2-3K. Same thing for bartenders and waitresses.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm sure this is not a rare thing on Lemmy, but even as an American sitting in the US I see these headlines and think "lol get fucked."

Probably 100 Million people in this country need to be shocked into global reality. I worry just how bad things will have to get before that happens, though. It would be great to have an economy that would let me retire some day, sure, but the loss of institutions and technological advancement is sad for both us and for people that don't even exist yet.

And I'm not trying to be anti entertainment / gambling / prostitution, but Vegas is pretty low on the priority list of the american institutions trump is disintegrating. It has high international visibility though.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Oh things are going to have to get a whole lot worse before a significant amount of people finally PRIVATELY admit they were wrong and start quietly doing things differently.

Realistically we're going to see a decline in the quality of our lives probably for the rest of our lives before this ship MAYBE corrects course.

America is very, very dumb. That's something that, even under good circumstances, would probably take a generation or two to fix. But our circumstances aren't good and aren't getting better.

I hate to say it, but there are a number of better places to spend your life than the U.S. as it is now and will probably be for years and years to come. It's going to take a looooong time to rebuild what we're losing right now.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 259 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Lol get fucked. Sent with love from Canada.

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 105 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ohhh, oh no! We need your tourism toonies in Las Vegas! We had no idea just how much Canadians spent on American stuff like bourbon and vacations! Ohh no, we're so sorry for those silly things we said, like threatening your sovereignty and being all condescending and dismissive.

Echoing your sentiment from the middle of America. Get fucked! Begging for visitors like that before doing anything to make amends, ugh.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And you just know Trump didn't learn any lesson. He 100% would do it again. I don't blame Canadians in the slightest bit. Honestly I'm happy they're voting with their wallets

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 21 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The mayor of Las Vegas is a democrat, not a member of the face-eating leopards party. I'm too busy to look it up right now but I'm going to bet that the Las Vegas City and surrounding county is probably one of the most consistently Democratic parts of Nevada. Of course Canadians should still stay away. Any non-american should just not come, but this is not lamf

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 132 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Sorry, but your federal government snatches people off the streets and sends them to concentration camps. We know of at least one Canadian citizen that was kidnapped by ICE, who then died in their custody.

This is in addition to your president threatening to annex us, and starting a trade war for no discernible reason.

No, I will not be visiting. A regime change won't help either.

It will never go back to the way things were, and that's on you collectively.

[–] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 52 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But wait! There's more! You can also receive a free deportation to a partner country of our choosing regardless of your country of origin!

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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 175 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Imagine treating your friends like garbage and then being surprised when they don't wanna hang out anymore. My country literally threatened to invade both of our closest neighbors and friends and are now shocked that they hate us. Americans are the neighbor that constantly blasts music with their windows open and steals everyone's shit and then bitches when they don't get invited to neighborhood parties. The man-child of the Americas.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 62 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Shut up and fuck off, TommySoda!

I was right to yell at TommySoda; they don't visit me anymore ever since I told them to fuck off. The dirty non-visiting bastard...

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Fuck off America. 🇨🇦’s not coming back. You’re too dumb to even know why. 🖕🖕🖕

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[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago

"We have a number of very high rollers that come in from Mexico that aren’t so keen on coming in right now"

I wonder why. /s

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 86 points 3 days ago (6 children)
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[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Las Vegas is having the day Nevada voted for...

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

If she wants tourism, she must make a promise: that ICE will be arrested on sight, and that the Nevada State Guard will stand strong against any National Guard unit that is enforcing totalitarianism.

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[–] madjo@feddit.nl 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Well, what did you expect people to do when your president started questioning Canada's sovereignty? To roll over and keep giving you money?! Get rid of the infestation of fascists all over the place, burn it all down, and then, maybe then people might think about returning to the USA.

But I do find it funny that in Youtube comments on channels like Guard The Leaf or "Not Leaving Las Vegas" there were idiots claiming that Vegas doesn't run on income from foreign visitors, that it mostly runs on domestic tourism, despite showing them actual numbers from the Las Vegas airport.

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We need you...r money!! And we miss you...r money!!

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[–] Worstdriver@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I'm Canadian, and this year I went to Florida to fulfill a life-long (I'll be 60 next year) dream to visit the Kennedy Space Center. One thing I noticed, beyond getting "randomly secondarily" screened at EVERY security checkpoint, was that there were no wait lines for anything anywhere.

No lines at NASA, no lines at restaurants, no lines at Orlando attractions. At least nothing more than a couple of minutes, at most. Even the beaches were mostly empty...

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

“International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’

I guess international travelers don't like being assaulted by Trump's Gestapo and disappeared into a gulag. Who knew?

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"We love you, we need you, we miss you." Said the abuser after you start to leave them...

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 65 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Most of the comments are talking about ICE and Canadians disliking the current American regime, which is true. But also Vegas isn't fun anymore. It's so overpriced for what it is. The ruthless corporate nickel and diming exploitation has ruined Vegas as a destination.

If the mayor of Las Vegas wants people to visit, instead of begging Canadians to come back, try telling MGM and Caesars to entice visitors with some deals and value for their money.

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Have the day Nevada voted for.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 67 points 3 days ago

So much of Nevada is a handful of mobbed up white nationalists and ultra-conservative Zionists profiteering off the sweet and tears of a migrant Latino working class. The city is a hive of scum and villainy kept afloat by the hard work of the large, active, and occasionally quite radical labor left.

If it wasn't fully immersed in US military bases and California Techie Fascists, it could be ground zero for a full blown socialist movement. Instead, it's just a pit where natural resources go to burn, so that a few dozen oligarchs can be billionaires and a few million service sector workers can enjoy above average wages.

Maybe we just push the whole thing off the Hoover Dam already.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

From Canada with love: fuck you

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago

Good keep it up.

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