Tourism: Then & Now
6,700 and 150,000
What is the number of Las Vegas Valley hotel rooms in the 1950's and 2018?
48
What is the number of U.S. States that have some form of legalized gambling?
Table game with a wheel and ball.
What is roulette?
Brand USA
What is the marketing organization for the U.S. to global travelers brining in millions of additional international visitors?
The organization that helps drive tourism by marketing Las Vegas and running the Las Vegas Convention Center.
2 million and 42.2 million
What is the number of visitors to Las Vegas in 1950 and 2017?
Nevada, New Jersey, Delaware, West Virginia, Mississippi and New Mexico
What are the states that have legalized sports betting?
Table game with dice.
What is craps?
Under this program, travelers from 38 approved countries can travel to the U.S. for tourism or business for <90 days without obtaining a Visa.
What is the Visa Waiver program?
Sam Boyd founded this gaming company.
What is Boyd Gaming?
59,000 and a record setting 6.6 million
What is the number of Las Vegas convention attendees in 1960 and 2017?
Four
What is the number of states that have legalized online gaming?
DE, NJ, PA and NV-poker only
Table game with a river.
What is Texas Hold 'em
10 AM - 11 PM
What are the hours of operation for Custom and Border Protection at McCarran International Airport? Despite being the 8th busiest airport in the nation, McCarran's CBP offices open hours after most airports.
The first casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
What was the El Rancho Vegas?
15,000 and 3.2 million
What is the square feet of meeting and convention space in 1959 vs. 2018 at the Las Vegas Convention Center?
$261 Billion
What is the size of the U.S. casino industry?
This game is said to have originated during the Franco-Italian war.
What is baccarat?
Allowing international carriers to add new flights into the U.S.
What is Open Skies?
When was Las Vegas founded?
24 straight years
What is the number of times Las Vegas has earned the number one spot on the Tradeshow News Network's top Tradeshow Destination List?
334
What is the number of casinos in Nevada?
Birthplace of the slot machine.
What is San Francisco?
100 miles from Las Vegas, bringing nuclear waste here would negatively impact tourism.
What is Yucca Mountain?
The hotel Howard Hughes lived in.
What is the Desert Inn?