Wednesday, June 9, 2010 | 11:22 a.m.
The number of visitors to Las Vegas in April increased compared to a year ago, according to numbers released this morning.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority said 3,199,541 people visited the city in April, compared to 3,171,043 visitors in April 2009, which is an increase of 0.9 percent. April is the eighth consecutive month of increased visitors numbers in Las Vegas compared to a year earlier.
Hotel occupancy across the valley dropped 4 percent because about 8,000 additional hotel rooms were added in the past year, bringing the total number of rooms to 148,891.
The average daily room rate increased 3 percent in the past year, from $94.08 to $96.87, the LVCVA said. The number of room nights occupied increased 0.4 percent to more than 3.7 million.
Convention attendance was up 3 percent, while the number of conventions dropped 1.4 percent, according to the LVCVA numbers.
The number of passengers arriving to and departing from McCarran International Airport dropped 5 percent, while traffic at the Nevada/California line on Interstate 15 was down 1.1 percent.
Elsewhere in Clark County, visitor volume slumped 5.7 percent in Laughlin and was down 15.2 percent in Mesquite.
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