by Calculated Risk on 2/10/2016 02:53:00 PM

Another update ... during the recession, I wrote about the troubles in Las Vegas and included a chart of visitor and convention attendance: Lost Vegas.

Since then Las Vegas visitor traffic has recovered to new record highs.

Visitor traffic was 2.9% above the record set in 2014 and 8% above the pre-recession peak.

And convention attendance is returning. Here is the data from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.  

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The blue bars are annual visitor traffic (left scale), and the red line is convention attendance (right scale). 

Convention traffic was up 14.0% in 2015 compared to 2014, but was still 6.6% below the pre-recession peak set in 2006.

It seemed like there were many housing related conventions during the housing bubble, so it has taken some time for convention attendance to recover.