Visitation to Southern Nevada in August paused its climb toward pre-pandemic levels with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reporting the weakest monthly total since February.

The 3.19 million visitors in August was 6.4 percent higher than August 2021, but still 10.9 percent behind totals reported in August 2019, according data released Thursday by the LVCVA. Much of the decline could be placed on convention visitation, which was down 38.2 percent from August 2019’s 657,800 show attendees.

Similar patterns emerged among most tourism indicators.

“Relative to 2019, August average daily auto traffic was 1.4 percent higher on all major highways and 5.3 percent lower at Interstate 15 at the Nevada-California border,” said Joe Greff, gaming industry analyst at New York-based J.P. Morgan.