Vegas hitting jackpot as pandemic-weary visitors crowd back

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Las Vegas has been jammed with pandemic-weary tourists looking for entertainment. Casino capacity limits on the Strip will increase again on Saturday, to 80%. Casinos have also reported four slot jackpot winners worth upward of $1 million in the last week.

People ride an escalator along the Las Vegas Strip, Saturday, April 24, 2021, in Las Vegas. Las Vegas is bouncing back to pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, with increases in airport passengers and tourism.

Among the first arrivals were people ages 60 and older who were recently vaccinated with time and disposable income, he observed. Economic markers now are ringing up a revival on the resort corridor that was was ghostly quiet a year ago. Every Sunday, another weekly measure of demand arrives: A nearly 20-mile line of vehicles jamming southbound Interstate 15 near the Nevada-California state line. Lanes reduce from three in Nevada to two in California.

Casino day clubs and nightclubs can open, but designated dancing areas remain closed until a specified community vaccination rate is met. That will let the convention authority host its biggest event since March 2020 — the World of Concrete trade show beginning June 8 — and debut its nearly $1 billion Las Vegas Convention Center expansion.

More than three-quarters of diagnosed coronavirus cases and deaths in Nevada have been in the Las Vegas area, where almost three-fourths of the state population lives. “The last week, the best way to describe it is like a light switch,” Richard “Boz” Bosworth, president and CEO of J.C. Hospitality, the property owner, said Friday. “You could just feel the energy rebuilding.”At least 50 resident shows have resumed, including mainstays such as David Copperfield, Fantasy revue, Carrot Top, Penn & Teller and the Laugh Factory. But not all acts at all venues are going forward.

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