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Las Vegas Tourism to Spend $1.7 Million on Formula 1 Tickets
17.08.2024 - 00:26 / skift.com / Dawit Habtemariam / Brand
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority plans to spend $1.7 million on Formula 1 Grand Prix tickets for its clients.
The agency wants to use the tickets — for suites at $11,000 each — to showcase Vegas as a destination and provide gifts to clients, said Steve Hill, CEO and president of Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The race will take place from November 21 to 23.
Among the recipients will be airlines – the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has been hoping that airlines will add more routes to the city.
“We’ll invite airlines to come to see what happens in a really big week in Las Vegas,” said Hill.
“One of the major purposes of the tickets for Formula 1 is to combine the opportunity to experience the race and see what Vegas can do around the race with what amounts to a site visitor or a familiarization tour for those clients,” he said.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, a government agency, is funded by room taxes, sponsorships, advertising and other sources. With revenue of over $415 million, the agency has the largest budget of any destination marketing organization in the U.S. – even larger than the budget for Brand USA, America’s DMO.
Hill acknowledged coverage from local news outlets and noted concerns over whether tickets would go to employees of the agency. “It’s a single digit percentage of the tickets that will be used by us as employees to be there with our customers,” said Hill.
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