Casinos brace as Las Vegas tourism plunges 7.5% in sharpest annual visitor decline outside COVID pandemic

While the Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) is reporting a caller record, tourism numbers successful Las Vegas stay connected the decline.

Nearly 55 cardinal passengers traveled done LAS successful 2025, giving the airdrome its third-highest yearly total.

While rider numbers inactive declined from the anterior year, the airdrome attributed its 2025 occurrence to assorted changes, specified arsenic TSA hold times connected formation accusation show screens, a caller airdrome website and 2 caller lounges.

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James Chrisley, manager of the Clark County Aviation Department, told Reuters, "Our peaks are inactive peaks, and our valleys are softer."

Meanwhile, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LCVA) released its year-end summary for 2025 arsenic good — and those numbers are worrisome to many. 

Nearly 55 cardinal passengers traveled done Las Vegas, mounting a grounds for the airport’s third-highest yearly total. (Ashley J. DiMella/Fox News Digital)

There were 38,545,700 radical who visited Sin City — down 7.5% from 2024, the study said. 

The highest visitation twelvemonth ever recorded successful Las Vegas was successful 2019, with 42,523,700 radical coming by. 

That was earlier a dip during the COVID pandemic, according to LCVA information posted connected its website. 

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The noted visitant measurement successful 2025 intimately mirrors the levels seen successful 2000, 2002 and 2003.

Total occupancy successful 2025 was 80.3%, with mean country rates astatine $196.54 and a normal attendance of 5,988,200.

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

There were 38,545,700 radical who visited Sin City past twelvemonth — down 7.5% from 2024. (Ashley J. DiMella/Fox News Digital)

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

"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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Many officials, edifice owners and question experts are citing a driblet successful Canadian tourism arsenic a large crushed that tourism numbers person been down.

Now, Circa Resort & Casino has launched an "at par" promotion — making the speech complaint for Canadians adjacent astatine its properties.

Total occupancy successful 2025 was 80.3%, with mean country rates astatine $196.54 and a normal attendance of 5,988,200. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

"Canadian [visitors] are down anyplace from 20% to 50%, depending connected what period you look astatine implicit the people of the past year," Casino proprietor Derreck Stevens antecedently told Fox News Digital.

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Reuters called Las Vegas "a metropolis powered by leisure spending that conscionable posted its sharpest yearly visitant diminution extracurricular the pandemic."

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Meanwhile, a circuit usher told the outlet that travelers are bristling astatine however pricey Las Vegas has become. 

"Ten bucks for a vessel of water," said the guide. "People don't spot a woody anymore."

Reuters contributed reporting.