In The News: William F. Harrah College of Hospitality

Tourism driven cities like Las Vegas are facing staffing shortages as the city grows and industry workers are not returning post pandemic
Take it from the pros: there's nothing quite like a fast and convenient taco, and these spots do it right.
In the Oscar-nominated 2003 movie “The Cooler,” William H. Macy portrays a downtown Las Vegas casino employee whose job is to reverse winning streaks. Bernie Lootz — get it, lose?— has such extraordinary bad luck, all he needs to do is sit next to a guest experiencing good luck and it stops.
Requests for tips are becoming more common, tips themselves are getting larger, and consumers from coast to coast are confused about the new rules.
Several hotel guests were recently shamed online after they were caught with a huge stash of freebies in their room. While many people think certain hotel room items like toiletries are fair game, some hotel guests have been known to take things that they really shouldn't.

I loved going to Rebel games — that was such a great experience. I loved school — I’m so passionate about the restaurant industry, and it's the greatest hospitality school.
These are the floor fixtures that can seriously put a strain on your lucky streak.

The past month has been — to borrow a phrase — a flightmare. Summer is generally the busiest travel season of the year, and the Northeast, where I live, has been hit with consecutive weekends of severe thunderstorms, leading to thousands of flight cancellations. Dealing with the fallout of the cancellations is an additional fiasco on top of the already chaotic summer airport scene.

A federal jury convicted a Las Vegas police officer Friday on all counts of stealing nearly $165,000 during a trio of casino heists, including one where he was armed with a department-issued weapon that was loaded.
Five red roulette numbers hitting in a row doesn’t mean a black one is more likely on the sixth spin. Even if you recognize the truth of this statement, whenever that sixth spin lands on black, it can still be difficult to resist learning incorrectly from the experience.
Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) today announced 12 college students will participate in the inaugural Sands Hospitality Immersion Program, July 24-28 in Las Vegas. The intensive experience is designed to encourage interest in travel, tourism and leisure by exposing students to the inner workings of the Las Vegas hospitality industry.
Seven-year police veteran Caleb Rogers was tackled by security after his alleged third casino robbery in four months, according to a complaint by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada