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CEOs of CES and Las Vegas Tourism Say the Vegas Strip Needs More Meeting Space

Greg Oates

Photo Credit: Las Vegas tourism and CES convention executives officially launched the site for the new Las Vegas Convention Center expansion.  Skift

Skift Take

The $1.4 billion expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center is significant because it cements the city as the meetings and events capital of the western U.S. for the foreseeable future.

Rossi Ralenkotter, CEO of the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority (LVCVA), and Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, officially opened the new site for the $1.4 billion expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center yesterday. Shapiro was in town to oversee his organization's 50th annual CES tech conference kicking off today, the biggest annual convention on the Las Vegas Strip. The ceremony marked the completion of the first phase of the three-phase expansion, which consisted of imploding the old Riviera Hotel & Casino and building a

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