Las Vegas tourism crashes to early 2000s levels as visitors flee the city

Las Vegas continues to spot a tourism slump, echoing numbers that are akin from astir 2 decades ago.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LCVA) released its year-end summary for 2025 this week.  

There were 35,457,000 radical who visited Sin City — down 7.4% from 2024, the study says.

LAS VEGAS TOURISM CONTINUES ITS SLUMP, WITH FLIGHT PASSENGERS DOWN NEARLY 10% EVEN AMID GRAND PRIX

The highest visitation twelvemonth ever recorded successful Las Vegas was successful 2019, with 42,523,700 radical earlier a dip during the coronavirus pandemic, according to LCVA data.

Visitor measurement successful 2025 intimately mirrors the levels seen successful 2000, 2002 and 2003.

Just implicit 35 cardinal radical visited Las Vegas successful 2025. (Michael Anthony for Fox News Digital)

Total occupancy successful 2025 was 80.7%, with mean country rates astatine $183.51 and a normal attendance of 5,682,200.

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In examination to 2024, normal attendance, visitors, occupancy and the regular roommate were each down.

Steve Hill, LVCVA president, reportedly spoke astir the effect that tariffs person had connected some returning and imaginable caller visitors.

In November, planetary visitors were down successful Vegas, with 239,500 tourists. (Michael Anthony for Fox News Digital)

"Some of the decisions our medication has made astir planetary relations [have] caused a driblet successful tourism," said Hill, according to section outlet KTNV Las Vegas.

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The latest month-end summary of November reports that planetary visitors were down, with 239,500 tourists compared to 303,834 tourists past year.

"Our international visitation is flat," said the president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.  (Michael Anthony for Fox News Digital)

Hill added, "Our international visitation is flat, but is making up for a 20+% driblet in tourism from Canada, which is our largest planetary root of visitation."

Circa Resort & Casino CEO Derek Stevens antecedently told Fox News Digital that planetary tourism is down crossed an array of locations.

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"I deliberation everyone is successful a presumption wherever you tin accidental we're missing some of our Canadian friends who aren't visiting this year," said Stevens.

He besides said helium believes the deficiency of international visitors right present whitethorn beryllium owed to the wide planetary system and speech rates.

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Rick Harrison of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop successful Las Vegas antecedently told Fox News Digital helium remains hopeful tourism volition prime up, but acknowledged the metropolis hasn't been getting arsenic galore visitors arsenic it erstwhile did.

"I’d accidental astir apt 40% to 50% of the radical I get are international," said Harrison.