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. “’
Great yet ?
lol even Americans don’t want to go back. Turns out that tourists don’t like being nickel and dimed just for breathing. Who knew?
I can’t believe that threatening Canadians didn’t make them want to come to the US and spend all their money.
Las Vegas is a city built for a different era, and we’re not in that era any more. I really don’t see it re-surging, at least until Trump allows fights to the death at MGM Grand. Kinda /s.
It could come back, but it won’t be the same Vegas. They’re trying hard to pivot.
Gambling needs to take a back seat to entertainment. It’s chock full of stuff to do, the Sphere, the Dam, the canyons, the desert, family-friendly shows, Area-15, and they’re cleaning up the strip.
They just need the US to be on the menu for tourism again and that’s not going to happen with all this motions to everything going on.
Vegas doesn’t care about anything but their money
Lol get fucked. Sent with love from Canada.
Ohhh, oh no! We need your tourism toonies in Las Vegas! We had no idea just how much Canadians spent on American stuff like bourbon and vacations! Ohh no, we’re so sorry for those silly things we said, like threatening your sovereignty and being all condescending and dismissive.
Echoing your sentiment from the middle of America. Get fucked! Begging for visitors like that before doing anything to make amends, ugh.
And you just know Trump didn’t learn any lesson. He 100% would do it again. I don’t blame Canadians in the slightest bit. Honestly I’m happy they’re voting with their wallets
That’s a given. He’s a demented narcissist.
We’ve proven most of us Americans don’t have spines but I’m glad our northern neighbors can still stand up for themselves.
While I get it, she is a Democrat who is likely a fan of what’s going on as much as you are.
Oh, I did not realize democrats where no longer american. If when a democrat was in power maga people where considered so, then in the current situation I will hold all americans to the actions of their nation.
Don’t like it? Tough. Its the same way americans have treated everyone in the world, so enjoy some of your own medicine.
Oh you want to say that the dems are “fine” and “nothing can be done”? Look at Nepal, and grow a spine. But don’t expect the world to separate one group of americans from the rest without actions done to prove such.
That was a lot of inferring.
Yeah almost as much as assuming that a mayor with a D beside their name means something to the rest of the world.
Not really. I, unlike you, read up on the person mentioned in the article. From an immigrant family, and critical of what’s happening right now.
You also assume my family and friends are all US-based, for which you would also be wrong.
It’s not my fault you want to rag on the US without reading. I’m guessing by the responses you are American despite playing the world view, but if I’m wrong, I’m sure your country has left and right parties, too, so don’t claim to be ignorant to D vs R.
The fact remains that there is a lot to complain about in the US that isn’t someone wishing things were better.
I looked up this mayor too. I can’t find much criticism of the federal admins policies. What I do find is that she is an active supporter of Israel, she voted to invade Iraq, and she has been named as one of the US’ most corrupt representatives.
So, maybe you can reflect a bit on why people aren’t very ecstatic that a politician is a Democrat. As far as I’m concerned, she has aligned herself with the leopard-eating party by begging Canadians to be complicit instead of pushing back against the federal admin.
Not american.
In the context of leopardsatemyface the mayor’s political leanings are quite relevant. It could even be said this whole post isn’t relevant to the community.
But yeah, keep on with your singular attitude.
I don’t have a singular altitude, I’m not sure why you think I would. I merely stating that a rep who has been public about her opinions on the current state of affairs is probably not the best candidate to attack.Edit: Appologies, I thought this was a response to me.
Oh, did the mayor take a stance counter to the current administration? No? Did she just ask the world to keep coming anyway and support her city? Yes?
Seems to me that like most americans she is towing the national party line while wondering why the rest of the world stops supporting the us, just hoping the D beside her name will give her allies. How is this not comeuppance?
Yes, she has. She has publicly talked about her position as coming from an immigrant family.
That’s a fair point, and I found a source for it. It sounds like she is specifically complaining about the National Guard deployment, because of her immigrant background. That’s great. I would like her to push for things which are virtuous even if she isn’t personally connected. For example, stand up for Canada’s sovereignty and decry the threats that the federal government has made, instead of just begging Canadians to come and give her city money.
How is coming from an immigrant family relevant? Most people in north America come from immigrant families (unless you implying that the real fascists are natives).
Big words coming from a country almost as fucked up as the US.
Rare for an american even admit that another nation exists. Look at you go!
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.
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…
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.
(TommySoda was promptly shipped off to a gulag after foolishly venturing into the US)
Trump and his supporters are so delusional, they thought threatening to annex other countries was a compliment
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.
Sorry, but your federal government snatches people off the streets and sends them to concentration camps. We know of at least one Canadian citizen that was kidnapped by ICE, who then died in their custody.
This is in addition to your president threatening to annex us, and starting a trade war for no discernible reason.
No, I will not be visiting. A regime change won’t help either.
It will never go back to the way things were, and that’s on you collectively.
But wait! There’s more! You can also receive a free deportation to a partner country of our choosing regardless of your country of origin!
And they’ll jail/deport/unalive you if you’re gay, trans, Brown, Black, Indigenous, a woman, not MAGA.
partner country of our choosing
There is genuine freedom to choose the partner country… though
Fine print on the choices: Uganda, Swaziland, or El Salvador.
That’s going to be generational trauma. Trust will have to be built with the youth, as adults have already said no.
That’s going to be generational trauma. Trust will have to be built with the youth, as adults have already said no.
Ending this regime is meaningless if the machinery that enabled it remains intact. The ICE agents that are lustily performing their duties will still live there, and will absolutely vote for more of the same.
There’s a segment of the population that still won’t get off their asses to vote as though their way of life depended on it.
Passage of time alone, is woefully inadequate to repair what was vandalized.
My kids don’t believe me that Canada and the United States used to be friends. Maybe their kids will consider it.
Gee…
Wonder why people wouldn’t think Vegas is safe…
Mayor Shelley Berkley reiterated Thursday that Las Vegas is not a sanctuary city, one day after House Republicans grilled four Democratic mayors and accused them of impeding federal immigration enforcement.
"The city of Las Vegas is not a sanctuary city,” Berkley said in response to a question during a bimonthly press conference.“We follow federal law, and we will do everything that we are supposed to under the law in order to comply with it.”
Like, she acts like people can’t just look up what she was saying six months ago…
“We have a responsibility, if someone comes into the municipal jail, to notify ICE, and then it’s their responsibility to take it from there,” Berkley said. “As long as the sheriff is comfortable with that and is using the resources he has to do the job that the city of Las Vegas and the county has tasked him with, then I’m very comfortable with that.”
Why risk going to Vegas when a drunk and disordly could cause you to be held by ICE for months? Even if you legally crossed the border, ICE is detaining actual US citizens too.
Anyone with shitty enough risk management for that to seem like a safe bet, either isn’t a gambler or already lost all their money on other stupid bets.
I wish I was Canadian just so I could use this.
Just channel Letterkenny.
Pitter patter, lets get at her!
I’ll grant you the title of a honorary Canadian, so you can use it. You can anoint yourself with maple syrup at your earliest convenience.
Honk
So much of Nevada is a handful of mobbed up white nationalists and ultra-conservative Zionists profiteering off the sweet and tears of a migrant Latino working class. The city is a hive of scum and villainy kept afloat by the hard work of the large, active, and occasionally quite radical labor left.
If it wasn’t fully immersed in US military bases and California Techie Fascists, it could be ground zero for a full blown socialist movement. Instead, it’s just a pit where natural resources go to burn, so that a few dozen oligarchs can be billionaires and a few million service sector workers can enjoy above average wages.
Maybe we just push the whole thing off the Hoover Dam already.
Most of the comments are talking about ICE and Canadians disliking the current American regime, which is true. But also Vegas isn’t fun anymore. It’s so overpriced for what it is. The ruthless corporate nickel and diming exploitation has ruined Vegas as a destination.
If the mayor of Las Vegas wants people to visit, instead of begging Canadians to come back, try telling MGM and Caesars to entice visitors with some deals and value for their money.
It’s ridiculously overpriced there now.
A high chance of being shipped to an Alligator Auschwitz Concentration (soon to be death) Camp and treated like what happened to the South Koreans. No thanks.
Also you americans seem to have forgotten that your fascist child rapist president threatened to annex Canada and continues to do so.
Get bent.
Yeah I agree on it being overpriced. Visited Vegas last year and it was rough.
- No cheap eats, buffets are all gone post-covid.
- Tables have $25 minimums
- Blackjack dealers have auto-shufflers for cards
- $2 buy in to lose money at 000 roulette
- Hotels are all crammed with service and resort fees
- Majority of casino floor space is now dedicated to slots
Since your last visit there now exists 0000 roulette, pushing the house edge to 10%.
Best I can do is a giant stupid sphere you can gawk at and a tunnel to nowhere
Vegas was enshittified before the web.
Yeah, for me, the current political situation means I wouldn’t go there even if everything was free.
And the current Vegas pricing means I wouldn’t go there even if it was safe.
Though even if it was free and safe, it would still require some thought.
Here is my most Canadian reaction.
Bwahahahahahaaaaa… No.
Et pour l’autre langue officielle:
Honhonhonghonhooon… Non.
Je t’ai upvoté dans les deux langues
Merci pour respecter l’autre langue!
Yup bout sums it up….
We need you…r money!! And we miss you…r money!!
Fuck off America. 🇨🇦’s not coming back. You’re too dumb to even know why. 🖕🖕🖕
We know why and the majority of us are depressed about it. But yeah, do not come here until the US remembers that we’re part of a global community. We’re not gonna get better without some hardship first.
Please let me in. Let me in!!!
As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love your money, we need your money, and we miss your money,” Berkley said during a press conference this week
This is what I read
Like a fascist american is going to actually care about anybody but themselves.
It’s nothing but give me money whining.
Go back to being a desert. Be better for all concerned.
I mean, it’s Vegas.
