{"id":97167625,"date":"2010-07-09T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/las-vegas-tourism-up-for-may\/"},"modified":"2010-07-09T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T12:02:00","slug":"las-vegas-tourism-up-for-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/las-vegas-tourism-up-for-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Tourism Up for May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Las Vegas sees increase in tourism<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe tourism promoters of Las Vegas say the city experienced more than 3.2 million visitors in May, a two percent increase over the same month a year earlier.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, this was the ninth straight month in which the year-over-year visitor numbers increased.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to the visitors&rsquo; authority, gaming revenue for Clark County dropped 4.4 percent to $714.7 million from May 2009 to May 2010.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRoom inventory increased by over 5.5 percent to around 148m000 rooms, city wide occupancy fell by 1.8 percent in May. The average daily room rate rose 2 percent, to nearly $99.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConvention attendance increased more than 3 percent to more than 353,000 even though the number of conventions and meetings decreased by 4 percent.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/38149657\/ns\/travel_news-destination_travel\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Associated Press<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Las Vegas sees increase in tourism &nbsp; The tourism promoters of Las Vegas say the city experienced more than 3.2 million visitors in May, a two percent increase over the same month a year earlier. &nbsp; According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, this was the ninth straight month in which the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97167625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}