Vegas Visitation Falls 11.3% in June, First Double-Digit Decline Since Pandemic

Visits to Las Vegas declined for the sixth consecutive month in June, but the loss was significantly more severe, recording its first double-digit drop since February 2021.

In June, there were 3.1 million visitors, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA).  This represents an 11.3% decrease, or 394,900 persons who choose not to travel to Las Vegas.

As per the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), the number of visitors has decreased by 7.3% on average per month since 2024.  In just the first half of 2025, that translates to a reduction of 1.5 million tourists.

Placer.ai's phone-tracking data also shows a decrease in foot footfall on the Strip.  Additionally, according to CoStar data, hotel occupancy decreased 14.6% last month as compared to June 2024.

A Particular Sort of Unfavorable News

Since only 1.5 million tourists visited in February 2021, a 53.8% year-over-year fall, June's visitation decline is the first to reach double digits.

Cancellations of conventions have some of the blame.  Because InfoComm and Cisco Live chose to invite their roughly 50,000 combined attendees to meet in Orlando and San Diego instead, convention attendance dropped 10.7% in June.

"The broader backdrop of persistent economic uncertainty and weaker consumer confidence" is the reason given by the LVCVA for the decline.

The general opinion also points to gaming companies nickel-and-diming, the availability of casinos in almost every state, and a decline in Canadian visitors who are afraid of (or politically opposed to) visiting the US.

Canadians made up 1.49 million of the 41.7 million visitors to Vegas in 2024, or 3.6% of the total.

In June, there were about one-third fewer Canadians traveling to Harry Reid International than the previous year. All international arrivals decreased by 9.8%, and even domestic passenger numbers decreased by 6.1%.

Overall, June had 400K fewer flights to Las Vegas than the same month in 2024.  The overall number of passengers has decreased 4.1% so far this year.  In comparison to the first half of 2024, that represents 1,191,377 fewer arrivals from Las Vegas.

"I was planning to attend a trade show there early next year, not anymore,” read a July 31 post from X user @spetersaunders, a Toronto resident who blamed “politics and border hassles.”

Additionally, 5.8% of the workforce in Las Vegas, a town that depends on tourism for its operations, was unemployed in June, which was the second monthly increase and made Nevada the state with the highest unemployment rate in the country. This is an indirect but telling indicator of the downturn.