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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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[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm not so sure. The rest of the world is working as fast as it can to extracate itself from any depedence on the US. Here in Canada, we are actively finding new markets for our products and so is the rest of the world.

By the time that the US does implode, nobody will care, and hardly anyone outside the US will notice.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Our country is within range of America as it flails and thrashes on the way down. We can't escape that.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, Canada is probably less able to escape collateral damage from the US imploding than any other country. Sorry about that, you guys don't deserve it!

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t worry we’ll build a wall. America can go fuck itself.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

Just make sure the US pays for it!

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 0 points 22 hours ago

Or care.