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 ?
Our country is within range of America as it flails and thrashes on the way down. We can’t escape that.
Yeah, Canada is probably less able to escape collateral damage from the US imploding than any other country. Sorry about that, you guys don’t deserve it!
Don’t worry we’ll build a wall. America can go fuck itself.
Just make sure the US pays for it!