Jeff Bliss, Las Vegas Tourism Decline and Anaheim Development Jeff Bliss reports a significant decline in Las Vegas tourism, with a 12% drop in visitors, which he attributes to the city's nickel and diming practices by major corporations like MGM and Cae
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
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Jeff Bliss reports a significant decline in Las Vegas tourism, with a 12% drop in visitors, which he attributes to the city's nickel and diming practices by major corporations like MGM and Caesar's Palace, coupled with the rise of online gambling. Despite increased gaming revenue, the broader city economy, including restaurants and hotels not part of the strip, is suffering. Vegas resorts are now offering discounts and food credits to attract visitors. Nevada's unique lack of a state lottery, forcing residents to cross state lines for games like Powerball, also highlights a peculiar disadvantage. In Anaheim, a proposed skyway/gondola system aims to connect Disneyland, hotels, and sports venues
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:39.8 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch. Vegas report immediately to Las Vegas. Jeff, for some weeks, months now, you've been identifying nickel and diming, |
| 0:46.3 | keeping people away from Las Vegas. Apparently, it is now too big a problem to ignore, and the tourism is so severely off. |
| 0:57.4 | Let us begin with, first you have to admit you have a problem. |
| 1:00.6 | Are they admitting it or are they trying to mask it as something to do with the economy? |
| 1:05.6 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:07.4 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:08.0 | They are trying to mask it as any other reason except the nickel and diming on their side. And, you know, there's some truth to the fact that the economy and the ubiquity of gambling, online gambling, especially, and, you know, Indian gaming around the country, you know, it's everywhere. So that all cuts into it and the economy. |
| 1:28.3 | But, you know, really, Vegas has been slitting its own throat because of these corporations |
| 1:32.7 | that are very short-minded, you know, short-term-minded. They're looking at the quarterly |
| 1:37.8 | results rather than the long-term health of Vegas and the strip and it's a lure. And so it's |
| 1:44.0 | really been kind of, you know, shooting itself in the foot. |
| 1:46.9 | It's starting to admit it short, you know, in bits and pieces by saying things like, |
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