International visitors to one of the world’s largest tourist destinations dropped 13% in June as workers face layoffs
The Trump administration’s immigration policies are affecting workers and driving, in part, a decline in tourism, including international tourists, to Las Vegas, according to workers and the largest labor union in the state of Nevada.
Visitors to Las Vegas overall dropped 11.3% in June 2025, compared to the same month last year. According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, international visitors to one of the world’s largest tourist destinations dropped 13% in June.
“A lot of departments are having a lot of layoffs,” said Norma Torres, a housekeeper for eight years at Mandalay Bay and a member of the Culinary Union, who has worked in the hospitality industry since she was 18 years old. “In the housekeeping department, the people on call are barely called into work.”
Vegas is two pronged issue.
International visitors are 100% Trump Slump, we don’t want to be picked up by ICE for nothing, tortured, sent to a concentration camp then onto god knows wherever.
That’s the reality for anyone without US citizenship in the US.
But they’d already started to lose business due to their greed, the resort fees, parking fees, buffet fees, childcare fees, Vegas was a cheap playground where you gave some extra money to the house for the fun of playing the games. Now it’s more expensive than REAL resort locations.
The desert sucks. I live in one - Who would want to go to the desert over the tropics or the snow? Vegas’ one thing was being that cheap playground.
Exactly. It’s enough to learn that we have to give up access to all social media accounts at entry and that if they find something critical of Trump (which likely exists on 99% of all European social media timelines) that’s enough to suddenly be sent to confinement for a week or … a month.
Yeah, no. There are other places to visit.
/Vegas-loving European who has been there pleeenty of times
It’s the reality for any person of color in the US too, regardless of citizenship status. It’s only a matter of time before they seek to revoke any non-white person’s citizenship.
(Honestly, given that I left the US, at least I won’t have to pay them taxes after they revoke mine)