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 ?
Yah this doesn’t belong here. Berkley never supported trump. Clark County was narrowly won by Harris. I hate MAGA too, but I don’t see how dunking on the collateral damage is helpful.
Edit: and by “collateral damage” I mean the innocent people who get harmed by the actions of the trump voters, not the direct consequences of the trump voters’ actions, which absolutely should be dunked on, early and often.
Because it’s fun, and maybe if enough places see the harm Cheeto Mussolini is doing they will actually do something instead of begging tourists to ignore fascism.
That’s fair, and I’m not saying that Canadians should resume travel to Las Vegas, but it’s still not the very specific phenomenon of someone voting for the Face-Eating Leopard Party expressing surprise that the leopards would eat their face. Maybe I’m too literal.
I just think face-eating leopard type criticism should be confined to individuals who actually brought this horror upon themselves, and not to make fun of entire regions that get caught up in the backlash.