Chinese Tourists Flaunt Their Cash While U.S. Cities Scramble for Scraps
Las Vegas, New Orleans, and even rural Pennsylvania roll out signs, apps, and bilingual greeters to claim a piece of the pie.
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In early December, the inaugural Hainan Airlines Co. Ltd. flight from Beijing pulled into a gate at Las Vegas’s McCarran International Airport, filled with travelers eager to indulge in all that Sin City offers. The flight is the airport’s first nonstop from China, and it's a route McCarran executives spent years developing.
Now, people from all over the world regularly descend on this notorious desert metropolis. But for passengers from China filing off of Hainan’s thrice-weekly arrival, a special welcome awaits.