Las Vegas Sun: Las Vegas sees 180,000 fewer visitors in April as tourism decline continues

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A view of the Las Vegas Strip looking southbound from Flamingo Road Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. Photo by: Steve Marcus

By Kyle Chouinard (contact)

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 | 2:06 p.m.

Las Vegas welcomed fewer visitors in April, with tourism dropping 5.1% year-over-year despite hosting a successful Wrestlemania event, the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority reported today. 

The city saw approximately 180,000 fewer visitors during the month, marking the fourth straight month that visitation has dipped in comparison to 2024. In March, there was a 7.8% decline in visitors from the previous year.

However, the business travel sector performed well in April, as convention attendance surged 13.9% compared to the previous year, the authority reported.

A series of conventions coming back to Las Vegas after being located elsewhere last year — the International Sign Expo, The Carwash Show and a meeting of the American Urological Association — were the difference, according to the LVCVA’s executive summary. A combined 46,000 went to the three events.

But the month’s high-performing events were “counterbalanced by consumer uncertainty with evolving federal policies,” the LVCVA wrote, indirectly referencing a lull in tourism as visitors from around the country and globe stay home because of uncertainty created by President Donald Trump’s trade war.

Gaming revenue also fell with the Strip taking the brunt of the hit. The corridor saw a 2.9% drop worth $19 million last month, the authority reported.

The authority was already projecting a 5% decline in room tax revenue for the next fiscal year.

LVCVA President Steve Hill previously called the projected decrease a “conservative approach … in recognition that there’s some uproar.”