Las Vegas September 2023: Visitor Traffic Down Slightly YoY; Convention Traffic Up 9%

From the Las Vegas Visitor Authority: August 2023 Las Vegas Visitor Statistics

Las Vegas hosted more than 3.3M visitors in September, slightly behind (‐0.5%) last September while est. convention attendance for the month was up 9.5%, supported in part by the PACK Expo tradeshow (32k attendees) that rotated back into the destination since its last Vegas show in 2021.

Overall hotel occupancy reached 82.6% for the month (‐0.5 pts YoY) as Weekend occupancy came in at 89.0% (‐3.1 pts YoY), and Midweek occupancy reached 78.9%, surpassing last September by 0.3 pts.

ADR exceeded $201 for the month, +7.7% YoY while RevPAR exceeded $166, +7.0% YoY.

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The first graph shows visitor traffic for 2019 (Black), 2020 (light blue), 2021 (purple), 2022 (orange), and 2023 (red).

Visitor traffic was down 0.5% compared to last September.

Visitor traffic was down 4.0% compared to the same month in 2019.

The second graph shows convention traffic.

Convention traffic was up 9.5% compared to September 2022, and down 11.2% compared to September 2019.

Note: There was almost no convention traffic from April 2020 through May 2021.