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Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: 'We need you, and we miss you' | Fortune (archive.is)

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Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley issued a heartfelt plea to Canadian visitors this week, acknowledging the city’s tourism-dependent economy is suffering from a dramatic decline in international visitors, particularly from Canada, which represents the city’s largest international market.

“As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,” Berkley said during a press conference this week, where she addressed the multiple challenges facing the entertainment capital’s tourism industry.

The mayor’s latest comments echo concerns she first raised in an August press conference, where she painted a stark picture of the tourism decline.

“International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’

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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 175 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine treating your friends like garbage and then being surprised when they don't wanna hang out anymore. My country literally threatened to invade both of our closest neighbors and friends and are now shocked that they hate us. Americans are the neighbor that constantly blasts music with their windows open and steals everyone's shit and then bitches when they don't get invited to neighborhood parties. The man-child of the Americas.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shut up and fuck off, TommySoda!

I was right to yell at TommySoda; they don't visit me anymore ever since I told them to fuck off. The dirty non-visiting bastard...

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please come back TommySoda and teach me how to do manufacturing so that my threats and tariffs can hurt both of us instead of just me. I probably won't arrest you a second time.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

(TommySoda was promptly shipped off to a gulag after foolishly venturing into the US)

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump and his supporters are so delusional, they thought threatening to annex other countries was a compliment

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Well it made them feel like their pee pees were big for a little while, so they liked that.

Because we're led by incompetent morons whose daddies didn't love them.