![]() ![]() Hotel occupancy and average daily room rates remained strong. NDOT does not differentiate between vehicles with tourists and local traffic.Įvery other category in the report showed double-digit percentage increases, including a 51.1 percent bump in convention attendance to 663,400 - which was higher than January’s total of 513,900. ![]() Both figures were higher than totals from February 2019. Average traffic on Interstate 15 counted at the California-Nevada border was 38,414 - down 8.5 percent. The Nevada Department of Transportation reported an average 116,017 vehicles on highways, a 3.7 percent decline from February 2022. While domestic traffic brought 3.9 million passengers to the airport in February, international arrivals more than doubled to 202,998.Īccording to the LVCVA’s report issued Tuesday, tourism indicators were up in all categories but one - the number of vehicles on major highways to Las Vegas. The airport has been working with airlines to schedule flights away from peak periods to keep traffic at the airport flowing evenly. Rosemary Vassiliadis, Clark County’s director of aviation, has said Reid’s capacity is around 65 million to 67 million passengers a year. The 4.2 million passengers using the Las Vegas airport was a 24.9 percent increase over February 2022, according to the Clark County Aviation Department.įor the first two months of the year, passenger levels are up 31.9 percent and on pace to bring more than 51 million passengers for the year, which would be a record. Reid officials reported late Monday that more passengers used the facility than in any February in history. That airport isn’t expected to be built until 2037 at the earliest. He was referring to a planned reliever airport south of Las Vegas expected to be built in the Ivanpah Valley. ![]() “While the current pipeline of hotels will give us room for the current growth that is expected, we need to start looking at long-term infrastructure and this chiefly is why we need to get the second airport back on track to support current and future demand.” “We are reaching a point that we need to look at future growth ability,” Bussmann said. “With major events and MICE (Meeting, Incentive Travel, Conferences and Exhibitions) still recovering, tourism numbers should continue to climb especially over the next 12 months.”īut Bussmann added that it will be important for public infrastructure to keep up with resort growth - particularly with Harry Reid International Airport having a record February and airport capacity gradually reaching toward its maximum. “While there is a symbiotic relationship with tourism and gaming, each has their own segment of drivers,” Brendan Bussmann, industry analyst with Las Vegas-based B Global, explained in an email. Visitation to Southern Nevada continued to take double-digit percentage strides toward pre-pandemic levels, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported Tuesday.īut an analyst in tourism and gaming says the city needs to look at long-term infrastructure improvements in order to sustain the growth that’s on the immediate horizon. People arrive to the baggage claim area of Terminal 1 at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Jan. ![]()
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