Most people know Las Vegas as the entertainment capital of the world. With over 40 million tourists each year, no city in the US records as many visitors. Despite this, investors throughout Nevada have been reinventing their business models to catch up with changing trends. Below are five of the trendiest things in Vegas that might end up shaping up its future.
Fitness Rooms Everywhere
It's become standard practice for hotels to install gyms in all major cities. In Las Vegas, some motels now encourage exercising by offering free yoga classes and in-door hiking services. The exercising rooms are fully equipped and overseen by professionals who guide you in every step of the way.
At the ARIA hotel, patrons receive both indoor hiking services and outdoor walking guides around the city center. A typical session will involve viewing the hotel's prominent attraction sites and amenities.
You can also take long walks if you walk alone. But if you love interacting with fellow guests, the morning tours provide an apt opportunity for networking.
The Mirage hotel also provides an exclusive yoga exercising where you practice as dolphins swim inside an aquarium. In some other resorts, you can join a cross-fitting program paid for in your guest room fees.
Hotels with no Casinos
As more and more states legalize gambling, people are visiting Vegas to play casino games less frequently. New online casinos are also ubiquitous these days, meaning players have a wide range of ways to gamble without traveling to Vegas.
To keep up with these changes, businesses are setting up hotels with no casinos or gambling games of any kind. Some of the most prominent brands in Nevada have already adopted these models. At the MG Grand, the Mandarin Oriental and Delano Las Vegas, you can book rooms in sections with zero gambling services.
Expectedly, the new resorts are more affordable than rooms located within gambling establishments. They're also elegant, equipped with standard amenities and located close to prominent attraction sites in Nevada.
What's more, you can find the new-age services like free yoga and daily walks offered in popular resorts. Additionally, you can book smoking free rooms, but you'll struggle to find resorts without bars.
Health-Focused Rooms
When did you last shower in Vitamin C containing water? In some of the largest resorts in the strip, nearly all showers are infused with nutritious vitamins. The nutrients, obviously, benefit your skin and hair in numerous ways.
Vitamin C treats wounds on the skin, and if drank, helps build your body's immune system. Vitamins K also strengthens your skin cell while some other nutrients keep your hair moisturized. So, the next time you visit a hotel offering you vitamin-infused showers, consider accepting the deals.
Vitamins aside, hotels are investing in lighting that reduces jet lag, stress-relieving wall designing, and non-intrusive alarm clocks. With these changes, Vegas hotels are shaping up to be more than places where people stay overnight.
Instead, they've become relaxation areas that also contribute toward keeping you healthier, less stressed, and happier in life.
Healthy Dining Options
Before the financial crisis, hotels throughout the city had buffet food systems that encouraged revelers to gorge as much food as they could. The trend reduced briefly after the crisis before it picked up again at the start of this decade.
Fast forward to 2019 and restaurants in Clark Country are placing health at the center of their services. If you're vegan or vegetarian, you'll come across tons of eateries that focus on vegan-only foods.
Both brand name resorts and small restaurants have gone green. Whether you visit Wynn Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay, or small eateries at the city center, you'll find numerous Vegans' friendly foods.
In some places, you can now also pick the number of calories you want to eat. For instance, you can pre-order foods that don't exceed 2000 calories for day-long meals. This is an excellent service for people that want to watch your weight while in Vegas.
More Open Air Spaces
Gone are the days when hotels focused on keeping you indoors throughout your stay in Vegas. With casinos becoming less of the primary source of income for businesses, resorts have shifted toward outdoor activities.
Throughout the strip, investors have set up al fresco restaurants and street concerts to attract guests that don't want to get inside casinos. Some more parks are coming up so that you could soon take your whole family to the strip and find family-friendly things to do.
Some of the outdoor experiences, like street performances, are free of charge. You'll need to schedule properly to find them, though. But if you have a decent budget to spend on entertainment, the strip is now graced with a multitude of fantastic activities for families.
A Changing Nightlife
Las Vegas may soon lose its nightclub capital of the world, at least if it continues to gravitate away from nightclubs. A study done by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority last year painted a picture where more than half of revelers visit bars and hotels instead of nightclubs.
In the research, only 7% of guests visited nightclubs in 2018, a six percent drop from the figures in 2017. By comparison, 52% of tourists visited either a hotel room or a bar.
It is unlikely Vegas nightclubs will lose business anytime soon. But if people continue to cherish small bar lounges over clubs, they may have to think of ways to reinvent their services to match changing customer needs. They could get rid of entrance fees or limit the number of revelers in clubs so that customers find value in the charges.
To Conclude
Las Vegas is a globally recognized entertainment hub, and no one is taking that title from the city any time soon. Lately, however, businesses are changing how they operate. As people ditch nightclubs to get more personalized services, investors are opening smaller lounges.
More and more people are also visiting Vegas for non-casino related entertainment. To meet their needs, businesses have changed how they operate even if it means opening al fresco restaurants and resorts without gambling floors.
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She holds a Bachelor's degree in Communication & Mass Media from Panteion University of Political & Social Studies of Athens and she has been editor and editor-in-chief in various economic magazines and newspapers.
