The calendar is delivering a gift to tourism enterprises this week, but it will take time to determine just how valuable that gift is.
Thursday is Feb. 29, the additional day tacked onto the calendar for leap year, a date that occurs only once every four years.
It means there will be 91 days in the first quarter instead of the usual 90 and 366 days in the year instead of just 365.
That’s one additional day of tumbling dice on the craps table, one more day of coin-in on slot machines, one more hotel room night and one more day of flights into and out of Las Vegas at Harry Reid International Airport.
