Whether it’s convention attendance, hotel room occupancy, or total visitor volume, the tourism statistics for Las Vegas hit a significant slump in June.
A report from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) shows that visitor volume in Sin City was down 11.3 percent year-over-year for June 2025.
The same report shows that convention attendance was down 10.7 percent for the month of June compared to the same time in 2024. Also down: room inventory (-2.3 percent), average daily rate (- 6.6 percent), RevPAR (-13.8 percent) and room nights occupied (-9.7 percent).
The June slump may be reflective of a “broader backdrop of persistent economic uncertainty and weaker consumer confidence,” the report explains. These two issues were further exacerbated by a slower convention month for Las Vegas, according to city tourism officials.
Combined, the trio of developments spelled a decline of about 3.1 million visitors to the popular gambling city.
A report from NBC News meanwhile, indicates that the developments in Las Vegas should be concerning for the broader U.S. tourism industry. According to that news report, the city’s empty hotel rooms and barely-filled casinos have not only “cast a pall” on the typically booming party city, but also may be indicative are larger concerns related to the U.S. tourism economy.
Andrew Woods, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told NBC that Las Vegas has historically been “the bellwether for the rest of the country when the business cycle slows down.”
There’s a variety of factors that are likely contributing to the city’s slump, not the least of which is the steep cost of hotel rooms. The NBC report says the city could be pricing itself out of the middle class tourist’s budget.
But not to be overlooked are the alienating policies of the new U.S. presidential administration. With President Donald Trump rolling out tariffs on historic allies, including Canada, many international visitors are turning their back on the United States in protest.
This reality was confirmed by Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley who spoke with NBC and said Canadian tourists, which were the Silver State’s largest international market, have been staying away in droves, turning a tourism torrent “to a drip.”
The soured Canadian sentiment toward the United States has been widely confirmed by travel data. In the case of Las Vegas specifically, air passenger traffic from Canada to Las Vegas is expected to fall steeply compared to 2024, by some 18.5 percent, according to Ailevon Pacific Aviation Consulting.
Separate data released by Statistics Canada in July also sheds light on the precipitous drop in visitors from the United States’ northern neighbor.
In June 2025, the number of Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the United States totaled 1.3 million, a steep decline of 33.1 percent from the same month in 2024, according to Statistics Canada. June 2025 also marked the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year declines in visitation to the United States by Canadians.
But it’s not just Canada that has been turned off by the new U.S. president’s policies and rhetoric. A poll of South Asian nations found that the United States has “lost its appeal” since the new presidential administration took office.
Even the country’s neighbors to the south are looking elsewhere when planning travel.
“We have a number of very high rollers that come in from Mexico that aren’t so keen on coming in right now,” Las Vegas Mayor Berkley has said, per NBC. “And that seems to be the prevailing attitude internationally.”
Data from World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) reported by TravelPulse earlier this year, also supports this development. The WTTC report shows that the U.S. could be hit with a $12.5 billion decline in international tourism.
The same WTTC report indicates that travel spending could sink to less than $169 billion in 2025, a massive drop from the $181 billion earned in 2024. The forecasted total for this year would represent a 22.5 percent decline from the peak of U.S. international spending in 2019, when the nation earned $217.4 billion.
When announcing the downturn in the U.S. tourism industry in May, WTTC President Julia Simpson blamed the Trump Administration’s“tourist detentions and steep tariffs.”
It now seems Las Vegas may be a victim of that prediction.
Las Vegas tourism officials however, are hoping for a rebound along with looking for ways to mend relations with Canadian travelers.
“That’s a long-term relationship, and we’re going to figure that out,” Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Steve Hill said of Canadian visitors, per NBC. Hill also predicted the city’s luck should rebound soon, suggesting the slump is only temporary.
“We’ve had crises and we have recovered from crises and this is just not that,” Hill told NBC. “It is a downturn.”
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