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This is CBS, I in the world. I'm John Bachelor. To Las Vegas with Gene Marks, the small business columnist for the Guardian newspaper,

UK and US edition, for our hometown newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquire, and second only to the Architects Index

is the measure of Vegas visitors for Gene Marks, a man who travels the United States talking to small business associations,

alliances, and individuals. Gene, a very good evening to you.

Watching Vegas is a way of watching the confidence of expendable cash. How's it looking?

Good evening to you.

Hey John, well we're getting there. I mean let's talk about Vegas. I mean we all know that Vegas is the number one

destination for conferences in this country it is also as a vacation place you

know to go to and you know as someone who covers small business you know it's a big source of information to me as to how business

to me as to how business is doing and people out there traveling

not only for leisure but also for business reasons for conferences that's a good sign about our economic recovery

we talked about this during the pandemic because the you know the traffic felt in nothing

so here's some here's some results for you where bottom line is we're

getting there okay. Traffic in April these are the Las Vegas Convention Bureau

just released their numbers by the way so traffic for the month of April was

pretty much the same as 2019 April I mean like off by a few thousand which is

really really good news and the same thing for March they were very very

comparable in February traffic to Vegas

uh... twenty twenty four exceeded pre-pandemic levels. That's 2019 February and in January almost there.

So the bottom line is is that if you look at you look at this

uh... you activity in vegas

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