Las Vegas Casinos Want Convention Parents To Have Child Care

The Las Vegas casino industry built their reputation by asking parents to leave their children at home and come enjoy the pleasures of Sin City. Now, they are changing their minds thanks to the economy.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority wants a code change that would allow casinos to provide day care for parents who are attending conventions. The move would be done to ensure that parents would have their children near them at all times during the conventions.

In the past couple of years, major companies have started to relocate their conventions. Las Vegas used to be the mecca for business conventions, but now these businesses have decided that it makes more sense to spend less money and stay closer to their home base.

In order for Las Vegas casinos to once again corner the convention market, they must be user-friendly. That means giving traveling parents what they want, and what they want is for their children to be on the same floor as them, not in buildings away from the convention.

"The economy is making it more urgent," said Yvette Monet, Spokeswoman for MGM Mirage, to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "This has become more of an issue." What also has become more of an issue is that parents are needing to bring their children on these business trips.

The extra money that used to be available for leaving their children home with a nanny is no longer expendable. This is making it all the more important that Las Vegas casinos are able to accommodate these parents.

November 1, 2009
Posted By Tom Jones
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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