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With Las Vegas being one of the top tourist attraction cities on the planet the hit it has taken amid the shutdown could very well be immeasurable and Mayor Carolyn Goodman is fed up with seeing her city struggle.
Mayor Goodman started her weekly City Council meeting on Wednesday by essentially taking a shot at Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak saying “this shutdown has become one of total insanity.” Sisolak elected to shut down casinos back in mid-March which has turned into the longest shutdown since gambling was legalized in Nevada back in 1931.
“For heaven’s sake,” Goodman continued according to News 3 Las Vegas, “being closed is killing us already, and killing Las Vegas, our industry, our convention and tourism business that we have all worked so hard to build. The longer we wait to do this, the more impossible it will become to recover.”
Las Vegas mayor on coronavirus shutdown:
“It makes no sense.”
She calls for Vegas and all of Nevada to reopen. pic.twitter.com/uf5Wf3g2Wn
— Andy Slater (@AndySlater) April 16, 2020
The biggest question here is that if/when casinos and hotels reopen in Vegas, will people decide to board planes to travel to the city and actually want to stay in hotels and be in large crowds inside the casino itself?
As residents of Vegas and people around the country are itching to get out of the house and get back to some sort of normalcy, one would imagine that there would be a sizeable group of people that would flock to Vegas as soon as things got back up and running.
Sisolak has stated that the state is going to ‘take it slow’ and listen to health professionals as to when Vegas may reopen.