Tourism and Gaming
Tourism, Gaming, and Entertainment, Nevada’s largest employment sector, continued to improve in the first quarter of 2013 by adding 3,700 jobs. Currently there are 386,900 jobs with average annual earnings of $31,400.
With the star power of Las Vegas and the diversity of natural settings, Hospitality and Tourism is the state’s iconic consumption-oriented industry and a major economic engine that creates tens of thousands of jobs for Nevadans.
Given its leadership, Nevada is focused on leveraging its intellectual capital in hospitality, tourism and related leisure services to diversify the traditionally service-oriented industry into higher-value and innovative activities that would create higher-skill and higher-paying jobs, expand the state’s exports, and even open up new opportunities for IT-based activities.
Central to that goal, the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, ranks as one of the country’s top two college hospitality programs. The school’s faculty has written more than 30 textbooks that are used in hospitality programs all over the world.
With more than 150,000 hotel rooms, Las Vegas is the ideal living laboratory for
the study of hospitality. Programs include hotel administration; culinary arts and beverage management; service, lodging and resort management; recreation; professional golf management; meetings and events management; and sports and leisure services.
The research institutes, centers, journals and data collections of the College of Hotel Administration make it a trusted resource of hospitality and gaming information that people and governments draw on as they research the best policies and practices for their states or countries.
Tourism and Gaming In The News
First Legal Online Poker Site Launched in Nevada
Nevada has become the first state where residents can legally play poker online for money. Station Casinos went live with UltimatePoker.com after Nevada legalized online poker in February. Read the full story....
LVRJ: Genting buys Echelon for $2 billion Resorts World Las Vegas
BY HOWARD STUTZ LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL Posted: Mar. 4, 2013 | 1:00 a.m. Updated: Mar. 4, 2013 | 7:05 a.m. Malaysia-based Genting Group today will announce acquisition of the Echelon site on the Strip and...
VegasInc.com; First Phase of Convention Center Overhaul Approved
By Richard N. Velotta (contact) Tuesday 26 February 2013 10:37 a.m. Updated 26 Feb. 2013 6:30 p.m. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority today approved the concept and the...
