Tourism is no longer booming in Las Vegas — and casino workers are paying the price.
With visitor numbers sliding, many employees are going weeks without a single scheduled shift, even though they haven’t been officially laid off.
Tourists spent $55.1 billion in Las Vegas last year, according to the city’s Convention and Visitors Authority, with 41.7 million people flocking to the Strip [1]. But the lights are starting to go out. July visitation fell 12% compared with a year earlier — the seventh straight month of decline — and that slowdown is hitting the people who rely on steady tourist traffic to cover rent, groceries and bills.
For Caesars employee Sonya Owens, that reality has been brutal. She told KTNV Las Vegas that she hasn’t been called in for a shift in two months, despite being on the schedule as “on call.”
