Alexa Vega

Las Vegas has always been known for the bright lights, and being the city that never sleeps. Naturally, it is also the home to many electronic dance music clubs, and high profile DJ’s that play all day and all night. On the strip in Vegas, there are clubs everywhere. The trend of electronic dance music is exploding on the strip. The clubs host some of the hottest DJ’s like Calvin Harris, Afrojack, and Tiesto. The clubs are in the massive casinos, and hotels filled with people and the bright…

Aristocrat operates three noteworthy divisions within the gaming arena which include, digital social casino gaming, Class II (American Indian) and Class III (Vegas-style) gambling machine and casino management systems. Including all business segments, Aristocrat employs approximately 3000 scatter worldwide with global headquarters in Las Vegas and Sydney Australia. Over the past few years, the footprint within the United States has continued to cultivate as the company has invested heavily to…

willingness to pay (Hayes, 2011, p.11). Las Vegas Venetian Average Daily Rate for 2016 is $189. Compared to 2015, $167. In one year, the average daily rate has increased by $22. The Net Revenue for 2016 was $2.65 Billion, in addition, the Net Income was $394.4 Million. Venetian occupancy rate is 87.4%. Mr. Molinari informed me that Las Vegas Sands uses the SAS application. SAS is able to forecast, aid in marketing and assist in revenue management. Las Vegas properties such as the Venetian and…

Published in 1972 Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour analyzes the architecture of the commercial strip in Las Vegas as an object of communication and persuasion. The architecture along the strip acts as sign rather than space with the intentions of creating an architectural object capable of seducing and luring the spectator at mid glance. Venturi translated the Las Vegas strip as a form of architecture that relied solely on iconicity as…

developing the Sands properties and name. After a trip to Italy and some inspiration from his wife, Adelson decided that his goal was to combine the romantic atmosphere of somewhere exotic like Venice, and pair it with all the modern luxuries that only Las Vegas could offer. In 1996, the famous Sands Hotel was torn down…

Mitzi’s talking, because she’s always talking. My little sister, Mitzi-the-Wiki, boosted her cog capacities a month ago and might have the whole damn internet in her head. She says “Turicum” was Zurich’s maiden name, it was our town’s title back when we still spoke Latin and served as a Roman tax outpost. Now it’s the name of the nightclub we find ourselves waiting for, the promoters who hail from only the most affluent areas of the wealthiest, most technologically advanced metropolis on earth,…

Contextual Architecture In 2003 my family moved to a house in a newly built part of town in the neighborhood of Lamplight Village. Based on the Lamplight Village painting by Thomas Kinkade, it was beautiful. Not what you would expect from a Las Vegas home, but beautiful nonetheless. The facade of the two story home was light brown horizontal wood siding with big chocolate colored shutters, only for show of course. It had a spacious covered porch, a picturesque window seat and large leafy trees…

Management Training. Nowadays, the hospitality industry is developing rapidly. A person with sufficient knowledge to work in this industry will never be unemployed, as the need for qualified personnel is growing. In recent years, the wide expansion of services in hotels make a lot of opportunities in career promotion, and to hire well-trained personnel is seen as one of the main tasks of the HR staff. Keep good employees in the hotel is only possible if he/she will have perception of career…

With the establishment of the legendary ‘Don the Beachcomber’ in Hollywood, L.A in the early part of the last century, Polynesian themes arrived in style. This amazing new spot was the first Polynesian-themed bar and restaurant in America and proved to be an instant hit. Its success spawned several copycats and soon the Polynesian theme named ‘Tiki’ culture spread across the world. That was back in the 1930s-40s, the trend like all others soon died out. Back to the 2000s, the Tiki culture has…

MGM is one of the leading gaming and hospitality resorts in the world. MGM opened its first hotel and casino in 1973. The MGM Grand would fallow opening in 1978. MGM entered in the hospitality in 1986 when they began MGM international resorts. MGM would become incorporated shortly after. MGM has received praise for their excellence in the world of gaming and hospitality. MGM has also been widely recognized for their philanthropic effort. MGM has several charitable undertakings both locally as…