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.”
Trump’s just playing to his strength and trying to bankrupt more casinos.
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
That’s the reality for anyone without US citizenship in the US.
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)
Trumpcession
Remember when our economy was in the shitter because of a global pandemic and an old guy named Biden came in and passed a bunch of useful legislation that resulted in us having a lower inflation rate than virtually every other nation and the fastest job growth in American history, then everyone decided he was too old and wasn’t demanding some other country on the other side of the planet stop genociding and so we decided to go with an equally old felon rapist pedophile with a lifetime of failed business ventures and a fetish for fascism instead?
I’m here right now, wrapping up from a conference.
This place is dead.
I’ve been to Vegas many times, and the lack of foot traffic and crowds is incredible. The most notable thing is the lack of Americans and the strange increase in Hispanic visitors. I saw 8 separate tejano bands set up near the Bellagio with moderate crowds, similar to how it used to be for buskers in the early 2010s. You can get a reservation about anywhere for dinner, same day. Attractions are all walk in.
I’ve been chatting up my uber drivers, and they think it’s down 30-40% based on ride frequency.
Tarrifs and Nazis
FA FO <-- You are here.I just left Vegas after visiting for the first time. I can’t understand how anyone can afford to vacation there.
It’s not worth it anymore. Vegas used to be budget-friendly. Now it’s more like movie theater concession pricing.
Used to be they expected you to dump money into gambling, even cheap single-play slots, that’s why you could get $7 buffets and $70 rooms. It’s become like everything else seeking to extract every last $ from visitors. Expensive rooms, expensive food, and even the 25¢ slots want you to dump several in for a single play.
I went to Vegas several times as a kid and was always surprised at how “cheap” stuff was because the gambling paid for a lot, but it’s insane now.
What happens in Vegas won’t stay in Vegas. The Trump-tariff-recession will effect every city and person in this country.
