Vegas Officials to Unveil Tourism Plan
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Las Vegas tourism officials plan to reveal an outline this week of their strategy to attract foreign visitors who have shied away from the United States since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.Officials are to present the vision Tuesday to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board, which is aiming to boost the share of visitors who come from other countries to 15 percent, up from the current 13 percent, by 2010. The destination's percentage of visitors from abroad have fallen from 18 percent before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, buffeted by tougher visa restrictions, wariness of travel and customs checks. Read more
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British pop star Morrissey will  begin a six week U.S. tour in Las Vegas on September 21, an  outing that includes multiple nights in San Francisco, Los  Angeles and New York.
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MGM Mirage on Wednesday unveiled its largest building project ever, a multibillion-dollar plan to create a high-rise neighborhood on the Las Vegas Strip that keeps up with the city&#39;s growing population and tourist trade.
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MGM Mirage Inc.  is in talks with resort developer Kerzner International Ltd. to develop a multi-billion dollar casino resort on the Strip in Las Vegas, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on Wednesday.
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Political leaders touted yesterday's signing of a deal to build a hotel across from the Washington Convention Center as a significant step in their quest to draw more visitors to the District.
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Singapore asks investors to submit proposals for a casino and leisure resort before decide whether to give permission or not to casino gambling.
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City officials have talked to casino developer Steve Wynn about building an Indian casino and resort just blocks from Disneyland.
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By BRENDAN RILEY  CARSON CITY, Nev. - Four federal agencies dropped their protests to a plan to pipe water to booming Las Vegas from a valley near the Nevada-Utah line, the state water engineer said Monday.
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Rundown land surrounding London&#39;s Wembley Stadium will be transformed into a glitzy $600 million gambling resort in a joint venture between US group Caesars Entertainment and Britain&#39;s Quintain Estates.
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Proposals for changing the gambling industry in Britain are to be published by the government.
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Gaming giant MGM Mirage (MGM) announced plans Wednesday for a $4.7 billion luxury complex of hotels, condominiums and shopping centers on the Las Vegas Strip.
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The glitch-plagued Las Vegas  Monorail, shut down since September, could reopen this week  just in time for the city's biggest surge in tourism, a  spokesman for the $650 million system said on Wednesday.
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Casino giant MGM Mirage is building a $4bn gambling resort complex in the centre of Las Vegas.
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The former governor of Virginia is expected to announce his plans on Thursday.
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Armed guards may become a presence on one of the world's most famous tourist attractions.
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Travel industry leaders meeting in Washington Wednesday said they want the U.S. government to stop treating tourists like terrorists, and to take steps to reverse a steep decline in overseas travel to the United States that followed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Casino operator Stanley Leisure today unveiled plans to bring a slice of Las Vegas to Yorkshire in a move that could also create more than 1,000 jobs.