{"id":30536,"date":"2021-12-29T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T20:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=30536"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:15:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:15:27","slug":"las-vegas-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/las-vegas-explodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Caesars-Palace-fireworks.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7059\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">But in a good way. Despite having one less weekend in which to gamble than in 2019, gaming revenues were off the charts last November. The <strong>Las Vegas Strip<\/strong> vaulted 46% to $755 million and locals revenues, expected to level off, instead catapulted 45% to $263.5 million. Some of the latter was fattened by end-of-October slot win, not tallied until the following Monday. Statewide, the leap was 41% to $1.3 billion. The magic number for the Strip was a 45% increase in baccarat win (remember, more international players were allowed into town) on 35% more wagering plus tighter hold. Strip slot win\u2014$408 million\u2014was a 47% jump on 31% more coin-in (and 9% hold), while non-baccarat table games rallied 45% on 35% larger betting and tight hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Downtown<\/strong> revenues rocketed 59% to $83 million ($30 million better than <strong>Circa<\/strong>&#8216;s first month, a year earlier) while the <strong>Boulder Strip<\/strong> enjoyed a 61% moonshot to $93.5 million. <strong>North Las Vegas<\/strong> climbed 21% to $23.5 million, <strong>Laughlin<\/strong> eked out an extra 5% to reach $43 million and miscellaneous <strong>Clark County<\/strong> climbed 40% to $146.5 million. <strong>South Lake Tahoe<\/strong> recovered well from the <strong>Caldor wildfire<\/strong>, up 31% to $18 million and <strong>Reno<\/strong> hopped 19% to $60 million. As for the Vegas area, its recovery was accomplished in spite of a 4.5% declivity in passengers passing through what was still <strong>McCarran International Airport<\/strong>. 119,000 of them were aboard international flights, down 61% from 2019 but a comeback has to begin somewhere. As for domestic carriers, <strong>Southwest Airlines<\/strong>&#8216; 1.3 million passengers crushed all competitors. Now back to our doctor-mandated bedtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in a good way. Despite having one less weekend in which to gamble than in 2019, gaming revenues were off the charts last November. The Las Vegas Strip vaulted 46% to $755 million and locals revenues, expected to level off, instead catapulted 45% to $263.5 million. Some of the latter was fattened by end-of-October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1728],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}