International travelers have always been the gold mine of Las Vegas visitation because they generally stay longer while in Southern Nevada and spend more once they get here.
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority researchers are always crunching numbers to see where foreign travelers are coming from for clues on how the LVCVA can best market these valuable visitors.
Last week, the LVCVA Research Center reported that 3.4 million foreign travelers visited Las Vegas in 2022, a vast improvement from the 1.3 million reported in 2021 and the 1.1 million that came in 2020 when people mostly stayed home during the COVID-19 pandemic. But it was still off the peak year of nearly 6 million in 2014, and 5.7 million in 2016 and 2017.
