In 2014, due to a need for better health care in Las Vegas, the state Legislature approved the creation of a new school of medicine at UNLV, now called the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine. The school was founded with an intended focal mission of caring for the Las Vegas community.

Stowe Shoemaker has served as an advisor to numerous hospitality service providers over the course of his career including IGT, British Airways, Accor, Hilton, Landry’s, and Hyatt. He has published two marketing textbooks and his newest book, Hospitable Healthcare: Just What the Patient Ordered!, introduces hospitality principles to the healthcare industry.

Tourism driven cities like Las Vegas are facing staffing shortages as the city grows and industry workers are not returning post pandemic

While visitors to Las Vegas have come roaring back, hotels and caterers are having a hard time finding enough workers to meet demand

Hotels have adjusted their housekeeping policies post-Corona lockdowns, with various brands moving to an opt-in model that offers daily housekeeping only to guests who request it. At least one operator is reversing course.

In the Oscar-nominated 2003 movie “The Cooler,” William H. Macy portrays a downtown Las Vegas casino employee whose job is to reverse winning streaks. Bernie Lootz — get it, lose? — has such extraordinary bad luck, all he needs to do is sit next to a guest experiencing good luck and it stops.

Requests for tips are becoming more common, tips themselves are getting larger, and consumers from coast to coast are confused about the new rules.

Several hotel guests were recently shamed online after they were caught with a huge stash of freebies in their room. While many people think certain hotel room items like toiletries are fair game, some hotel guests have been known to take things that they really shouldn't.

I loved going to Rebel games — that was such a great experience. I loved school — I’m so passionate about the restaurant industry, and it's the greatest hospitality school.

These are the floor fixtures that can seriously put a strain on your lucky streak.

The past month has been — to borrow a phrase — a flightmare. Summer is generally the busiest travel season of the year, and the Northeast, where I live, has been hit with consecutive weekends of severe thunderstorms, leading to thousands of flight cancellations. Dealing with the fallout of the cancellations is an additional fiasco on top of the already chaotic summer airport scene.

A federal jury convicted a Las Vegas police officer Friday on all counts of stealing nearly $165,000 during a trio of casino heists, including one where he was armed with a department-issued weapon that was loaded.