The Wynn hotel and Casino in Las Vegas maybe the next backdrop for a new sports series called Survive and Advance which will be hosted by former basketball coach Bob Knight and co hosted by sports analyst Billy Packer.

The funny thing about all the hype is that while this show is being recorded at one of the swankiest hotels in Las Vegas there will no gambling focus whatsoever involved with these programs. The show will air five separate one hour episodes and will not be taped in any area of the casino that shows any type of gambling nor will it take place in any location that sports gambling and betting occurs in.

While this show will center around the NCAA the promise remains that gambling will not at all have any light in relation to any discussion on the sport and the Wynn will simply be there to stage a beautiful backdrop.

It seems that the NCAA has had issues with gambling in the past and it is not a good idea to have a show like this even if it would just tempt young college students and athletes to place a bet. There seems to be an inconsistency with the zero gambling rules that the association holds and the idea of having a show like this run out of the Wynn in Las Vegas.

This show will run during March Madness which falls in line with Spring break for college students throughout the US. The students often head to Las Vegas for the break and many place a wager on their favourite team at the time!

“Les Folies Bergere” is one of the last topless revues to be running in Las Vegas. The show has recently released that it will be putting on its last show in over 49 years at the end of March. The show currently takes place in a theatre at the Tropicana hotel and casino which is located centrally on the strip and is one of the oldest hotels to currently stand on the strip in somewhat original condition.

While topless shows were a dime a dozen sometime in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, this show and Bally’s hotel and casino “Jubilee” are the only two shows that are full topless shows that remain on the strip and so when this show takes the stage for the last time in March Jubilee will be the only topless revue that is to remain on the strip.

The hotel and casino has announced that there will be a new production of some sort to take place instead of the revue playing currently and that they were very happy to have a show of this calibre in their hotel and are proud to be a part of that stage in time.

Audiences are quite picky with what they do and do not want to see live theatre these days and most selections have been geared to shows from the Canadian originated Cirque De Soilel. Since Cirque came to town people are buying tickets to the newest show and are eating up the creativity and experience.

It seems as though topless theatre is becoming a thing of the past, even for Las Vegas!

The Las Vegas Mayor, Oscar Goodman made several serious promises in an address to the city this week. He said that it is almost a guarantee that the economy will bounce back and that the city of Las Vegas will be just as vibrant and profitable as it once was not so long ago.

He recognized that current economic times are currently going through a very hard time and that Las Vegas surely felt the blow as it is largely a city that counts on visitors to keep the economy flowing and looks to tourist for most of the life and activity that the city has.

The mayor urged the companies and corporations within the city to stay focused and keep projects that were previously planned to keep moving if at all possible. He mentioned that many cities have experienced job losses and shortened budgets but said that if we continue with a downward spiral than the things can only get worse.

If renovations continue to happen and new hotels and business continue to come up as planned than things can only get better and more people will come back to Vegas once again.

The mayor did say that he is looking at the situation in an optimistic light but wishes that everyone could just be a little more positive about the situation which they are faced with. The only thing to do is keep spirits up and keep moving the city forward. Before we know it everything will be back to normal and good times will reign again!

You can call it whatever you like but we found it quite ironic that the Consumer Electronic Show just so happened to overlap dates with the Adult Entertainment Expo. It just so happened that every year around this time in January both shows go on simultaneously in the city of Las Vegas.

Fun things are bound to happen as the sexuality and brains collide in sin city. The Consumer Electronics show displays new up and coming technology while the Adult Entertainment Expo has a display of everything worth a peak in the world of nudity and other sexual related activity.

Guests and presenters from both shows are surely sharing hotel space, restaurant locations and entertainment venues and every year brings new rumours and stories of what may have happened when someone from one show was excited by someone at another. But of course, whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas so no one will really know if any of the so called rumours have any truth behind them at all.

The CES show brought many interesting ideas and innovations to the public as most items unveiled at this year`s show proved that we are moving to all things little and inexpensive. With the economy going the way that it is it only makes sense that we are looking for ways to save no matter what the innovation.

As for the world of Adult Entertainment, big and flashy continues to be the trend in this industry as it has been for years past. And while the economy is down, this industry always brings an entertaining flare to Las Vegas.

Destinations worldwide are now starting to look at casinos as a possible source of income for their cities, cities that previously have laws against gambling are turning their heads to the negative elements and thinking about how much tourism and money these activities actually bring into an economy.

That is part of the reason why many current financial analysts are giving a buy recommendation to the LVS Corp. While predictions are lowers than before with regards to how well the group of Las Vegas Sands hotels and casinos will actually perform this year the future of the hotels is still quite bright.

The new hotel that will be in Singapore this year is expected to be one of the most visited and perhaps the most lucrative casino and hotel in the world so if that doesn’t make the stock just a bit hotter it is not likely that anything else will.

The Las Vegas Sands group have been experiencing some serious difficulties in the last few months. They have had to lay off several hundred employees due to the economic times and have had to restructure their finances as well as their plans for construction for the year of 2009. However, the landscape is starting to look a little brighter as the hotel in Macau is remaining very popular and still bringing in a sufficient profit.

Many hotels and casinos have lost cash flow in the recent downturn in the economy but as history will tell they usually re-establish themselves and bounce back to be even stronger than they were in the past. Hopefully the same will be the case this time around and all those that are holding interest in casinos will see the benefit once again.

The worlds largest consumer electronics show has brought some glow and life back to the streets of Las Vegas. The show began yesterday January 8th and will conclude on January the 11th. This year the show is approximately 10 percent smaller than the show last year.

With this being a generally slower time for travel in Las Vegas, the city is more than happy to see some energy in the economy. The show brings 2700 exhibitors from all the top names in electronics and technology that the world has to offer.

The visitors that have come to see the convention are scattered throughout the city and are occupying several, if not all the hotels on the strip.

The convention began by a introduction and speech from the current CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer where he spoke briefly about his predictions for the industry this year along with introductions for the new platforms that Microsoft will be launching this year. He mentioned several alliances that they have made as well as focusing on products they will be launching this year.

For the city of Las Vegas and the electronics industry this year will be similar in that it will be one of innovation. The innovation may need to stretch out as far as finding new innovative ways to create business. The economy is almost guaranteed to bounce back eventually and there isn’t one industry that isn’t excited for that time to come, but in the meantime everyone will use creativity to keep business moving along and keep their heads above the waters.

After the all the lavish talk of creating over 12,000 jobs and plans to continue the City Center project earlier this week, MGM Mirage announced that their plans may actually change as a true evaluation of allocation budgets showed that the better financial decision would be to hold off and cut back on the City Center project in order to raise equity and create a more focused approach to what they will do in order to have better earnings in the coming year.

The Large organization has said that it is likely to delay the opening of some of the City Center at least until sometime in 2010, original plans were to have the entire area complete by the end of this year ( 2009) with grand openings scheduled for as early as late September 2009.

The direction that the company is taking will likely impact the anticipated hiring news and scale back quite significantly with regards to any new positions that they create and offer to the market. However, these changes are being made to make the company more successful in the long run. They anticipate that this will save then over $200 million in preliminary costs.

2009 is likely to be a year of change for many casino operators in Las Vegas. But paving the road for the next couple of years is hopefully going to ensure a smooth ride for the years to follow. These companies have now refocused and are looking towards long term goals and even longer termed rewards.

The Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has recently announced that they have a new addition to their senior casino management and operations team. The company was proud to announce that they have hired Ron Thacker former vice president of casino operations at Fontainebleau Resorts to act as their new president of the entire casino in Las Vegas located centrally on the bright Vegas Strip.

While this contract is still in the process of receiving regulation approval, there is certainty that once this change happens the Hotel and Casino will see great changes and innovation. Thacker is more than a reputable member of the executive team of casino executives around the world. He has experience that ranges over a 30 year span and has worked in several casino organizations throughout the US and Canada as well.

The Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas was first unveiled over 40 years ago in 1957 and has remained in almost original condition since its opening days with a few renovations along the way. The hotel is a popular spot for locals and visitors from all over the world.

The new president is likely to implement some changes and perhaps several updates in aesthetics at the hotel but is also likely to keep the integrity of the original idea and theme behind the hotel.

The hotel and casinos currently offers very affordable rates for accommodations and has a great variety of restaurants and entertainment both within itself and surrounding the hotel on the strip that are just minutes away.

Many are curious about what 2009 has in store for the US as a whole. People are also wondering what this new year will bring for Las Vegas. Unfortunately for us, we do not have the exact answer to that question and if anyone had the exact answer to that question than many problems would be resolved at a much faster rate and things would quickly turn around.

As for what we do actually know with some certainty, there are several plans in the works for Las Vegas. The largest and most well known project for the city will without a doubt be the CityCenter. A project that has already started and has high hopes of seeing completion by the end of 2009. This will likely be a booster in the economy for the city as the completion requires over 12,000 jobs to filled in order for things to operate successfully.

With many small projects coming up in the city as well the focus is more than likely to fall on the CityCenter as it begins its middle stages of construction and preparation to open in the end of 2009. One of the towers in the new landscape will feature a hotel that is all luxury minus the gambling and (while this might surprise for Las Vegas) it will also be a fully NON-smoking building. Rumour has it that many other hotels are considering forbidding smoking in certain areas of the their hotels as well with the hopes of eventually moving to a smoke free hotel in its entirety (chances are this won’t happen for a very, very long time).

The other parts of the CityCenter will have a massive shopping center filled with shops and restaurants for almost any craving that a visitor coming to Las Vegas may desire. The other hotel towers will feature several elements, a tower geared only to the very elite and high end visitor with high limit gambling and amenities that the everyday man just simply could not afford.

The CityCenter is sure to attract many and will likely be a very unique and beautiful destination that will entice visitors to travel from all places throughout the world.

With Las Vegas being a popular destination for many conventions the start of a New Year will likely be a forecast for what is to come for the rest of the year. The first large scheduled convention show for the year is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which is to begin this week and is an annual show for Las Vegas and is held in the cities biggest convention center.

Even though the show is sure to please with plenty of new gadgets and wonders that are sure to impress, the turnout is suspected to be sufficiently less than that of last year as budgets for travel are being cut and everyone is experiencing losses. Another factor is that exhibitors are fewer due to much of the same reason as the turnout, companies are simply running out of money to be as innovative and as exclusive as they have been in the recent past.

Those that are planning to attend the show are likely to notice a change and move to towards green this year, which will be a much anticipated change from huge flash and glamour that was presented last year with the world’s largest televisions and other items that pretty much sucked all the energy that this planet has left to offer.

Rather than focusing on new there will likely be a shift to simply showing people and companies how to do things better and more efficiently. Exhibitors are said to be fewer by at least 10% but the show will still have quite a large number of things to see with over 2500 booths present.