{"id":70127,"date":"2026-06-30T21:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/70127\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:14:10","slug":"btss-sold-out-las-vegas-shows-bring-record-level-of-visitors-to-sin-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/70127\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019s sold-out Las Vegas shows bring record level of visitors to Sin City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Las Vegas<\/a> saw an uptick in visitors last month, largely due to four sold-out BTS concerts<\/a> and several other major events.<\/p>\n

Nearly 3.5 million people visited Sin City in May, a 2 percent increase on the same month last year, according to data from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, reported by Fox 5 Vegas. <\/a><\/p>\n

Hotel occupancy in Vegas reached 84.7 percent for the month while the average daily room rate cost about $211, up 6.3 percent compared to last year. Additionally, the revenue per room \u2014 which measures how much hotels make from each room \u2014 hit $178.40, up 8.5 percent. The group said both figures reached record levels for May.<\/p>\n

Conventions also contributed to the boom in visitors with 586,300 people attending conferences in May, up 14.7 percent from the same period last year, data showed.<\/p>\n

The South Korean boyband\u2019s fan base,<\/a> known as ARMY, flocked to Las Vegas for the four sold-out shows last month as the group returned to live performances after completing their mandatory military service. Billboards outside hotels on the Strip read \u201cBorahaegas,\u201d which is a nickname given to Las Vegas by the group and their fans.<\/p>\n

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The South Korean boyband\u2019s fan base, known as ARMY, flocked to Las Vegas for the four sold-out shows last month as the band returned to live performances after completing their mandatory military service (Getty)<\/p>\n

There were several noteworthy events in addition to the BTS WORLD TOUR \u201cARIRANG\u201d concerts at Allegiant Stadium. Last month, Vegas also saw a citywide BTS THE CITY fan festival, a sold-out Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) 30th anniversary event and the Vegas Golden Knights Conference Finals, which saw Sin City\u2019s hockey team lose the Stanley Cup to the Carolina Hurricanes. <\/a><\/p>\n

Clark County, which includes Vegas and the surrounding areas, also saw increased revenue through gaming, which totaled $1.2 billion in revenue in May, up 7.4 percent from May 2025.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, gaming solely on the Las Vegas Strip reached $807.9 million, up 13.2 percent year over year, according to the data.<\/p>\n

The boost comes as Las Vegas has seen a drop in annual visitors ever since the pandemic. Sin City attracted an estimated 38.5 million tourists in 2025, which was about a 7.5 percent decrease compared to 2024 \u2014 and the sharpest drop in annual visitors since the pandemic began in 2020, according to Travel Weekly. <\/a><\/p>\n

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BTS played four nights at Allegiant Stadium in May (Getty)<\/p>\n

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BTS fans helped Las Vegas\u2019 struggling tourism industry last month, as the K-pop band had four sold-out shows in Sin City (Getty)<\/p>\n

However, some local officials attributed the decline in visitors last year to policies enacted by President Donald Trump\u2019s administration. <\/a><\/p>\n

Last June, Sin City saw just under 3.1 million tourists \u2014 an 11 percent decrease compared to the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n

Data from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority showed a 13 percent reduction in international travelers and a roughly 15 percent decrease in hotel occupancy during that time.<\/p>\n

Ted Pappageorge, the Secretary-Treasurer of the influential Culinary Workers Union in Vegas, dubbed the situation last summer a \u201cTrump slump.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you tell the rest of the world they\u2019re not welcome, they are going to listen. Our members are telling us that they\u2019re quite nervous, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re calling it a Trump slump,\u201d Pappageorge said.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley also blamed the rising cost of food, hotel rooms and attractions for the decrease in tourism.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are feeling that they\u2019re getting nickel and dimed, and they\u2019re not getting value for their dollar,\u201d Berkley said, adding that business owners need to see if they can make things more affordable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s all we want. We want them to come and have a good time, spend their money, go home,\u201d the mayor said last year. \u201cThen come back in six months.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Las Vegas saw an uptick in visitors last month, largely due to four sold-out BTS concerts and several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1598,38367,195,12706,11758,38365,38366],"class_list":["post-70127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-korea","tag-bts","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-k-pop","tag-las-vegas","tag-mandatory-military-service","tag-sin-city","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}