Las Vegas: more than Casinos

It’s a common misconception that Las Vegas is the city where entertainment leads the world with about seventy casinos, including the most impressive luxury themed-hotels, real must-do tourism destination attractions for international visitors.

Among the largest hotels in the world, the historic ‘Excalibur’ boasted more than 4.000 rooms in the 1980s, while the ‘Venetian’ is one of the most popular attractions nowadays.

Both in size and uniqueness, this luxury hotel seems ‘to transport visitors to a dreamlike atmosphere’, allowing them to find themselves, in real time, among canals and alleyways of a surreal Venice.

Despite the current inflation, Las Vegas remains a popular destination for entertainment and short-break getaways, especially during week-ends, but the surrounding beauty of nature is something astonishing.

That is what Nevada is, the importance and value of the so-called ‘Silver State’: some of more than 60 US National Parks, defined by the National Geographic as the ‘Cathedrals of America’ in competition with the real and sumptuous Cathedrals in Europe!

These are the most mysterious and mystical places of the West, wild and abandoned areas where traces of fascinating ‘Ghost Towns’ can still be found. Nothing there can be ignored.

Some Native American tribes found peace there, in their native land, while a celebrity like Michael Jackson was in search of solitude, far from the hustle and bustle of his daily life.

Trivializing Las Vegas as ‘just entertainment and slot machines’ would be too simplistic. A visitor’s approach to the city is multifaceted, therefore experiencing Las Vegas ‘in the right way’ is crucial.

The aware and responsible tourist is well-informed about the historical and natural context of the city, because Las Vegas has more to offer than entertainment, it has its own history and culture to share.