Las Vegas likes foreign visitors because they spend much more than domestic ones
Skift Take
With the average foreign visitor likely to spend nearly triple on everything, the local tourism and convention board wants to nearly double its foreign influx to 30% of the city's total.
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Author: Richard N. Velotta
Southern Nevada has always known that foreign tourism is lucrative. But how lucrative?
Applied Analysis principal Jeremy Aguero cited examples for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors Tuesday, quantifying what most experts have believed all along.
Aguero said there were 6.2 million people who visited Las Vegas from foreign countries in 2011 -- roughly one visitor in six. Yet $1 of every $4 spent by tourists in La
