When Las Vegas Tourism Softened, the Workers With the Least Security Felt It First — and It Never Showed Up as a Layoff.
Las Vegas is experiencing its sharpest tourism decline in more than fifty years. The official unemployment numbers are barely moving. That gap is the story. Las Vegas visitor numbers fell 7.5 percent in 2025 — a loss of more than three million tourists — marking the steepest annual decline since record-keeping began in 1970 outside…
