Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: 'We need you, and we miss you' | Fortune

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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 - SLRPNK

>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 ?

I’m American, have never been to Vegas and was planning a trip. Then all my bills went up. My insurance alone tripled. I now fear traveling state to state as I don’t trust the police in red states so no driving through them. I no longer trust the TSA to not arrest me for what I post online so no more flying. I think I will stay right here for the foreseeable future as travel just isn’t important to me right now. Would I love to travel? Yes. I need to feel safe and secure in it and to not be financially ruined by it. Right now I just need to focus on making sure my housing and food is secured. I don’t have time or security to focus on anything else.
I can promise you TSA doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything besides the water bottle in your backpack. Other agencies, sure, but the TSA itself is only concerned if you’re trying to bring a prohibited item through security. Unless the FBI has tagged you as a terrorist or something they could care less.
Wrong, almost missed my flight out of Kansas once because the guy checking IDs pulled the person I was with aside for a full search, because they looked Latina. She had to stand there for 45 minutes waiting to be searched, no one would help her or search her. Finally I pitched a white woman tantrum at another older white woman and she got her out ASAP. Her ID and everything was fine. He was just racist and wanted to harass her because he could. What a fucker