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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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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Oh things are going to have to get a whole lot worse before a significant amount of people finally PRIVATELY admit they were wrong and start quietly doing things differently.

Realistically we're going to see a decline in the quality of our lives probably for the rest of our lives before this ship MAYBE corrects course.

America is very, very dumb. That's something that, even under good circumstances, would probably take a generation or two to fix. But our circumstances aren't good and aren't getting better.

I hate to say it, but there are a number of better places to spend your life than the U.S. as it is now and will probably be for years and years to come. It's going to take a looooong time to rebuild what we're losing right now.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

hate to say it, but there are a number of better places to spend your life than the U.S. as it is now and will probably be for years and years to come

If only most americans knew this, it might actually self-correct!

But in a world with incredible, downright magical access to global communication and human knowledge, millions continue to choose folk wisdom and confirmation bias.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

Oh I know. The only reason I'm still here is that I can't afford to leave.

[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

I heard mars is nice this time of year....

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 0 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I think that if we don't have civil war, the political sea change will come from Boomers dying of old age, allowing younger generations to slot into their evacuated political and fiscal offices.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago

And Gen Z is heavily right-leaning due to the piss-poor quality of education and all the manosphere propaganda over the last several years. It's going to continue to get worse for a very long time before it gets better.

[–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 7 points 18 hours ago

Don't underestimate how stupid gen z is.