RevPAR, as the metric is known, was up just 1.7% in Las Vegas, but that came despite a 1.5% drop in hotel occupancy during the October-December period.

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Hotel occupancy has increased by approximately 8% and air traffic by 7.6% in the same period, indicating that whereas there has been an increase in tourism also helping boost the economy, the predominant increase in the types of visas issued are those for residency, generating a secondary boom in this city.

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