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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 11, 1990

Page

47

Desert Boom Hotels Sprout in Las Vegas

Las Vegas undergoes a mega hotel expansion as the Mirage fuels nightly eruptions and a wave of new resorts. By 1992 hotel rooms are set to rise to 85 000 90 000 with Excalibur adding 4 032 rooms surpassing nine of the world’s ten largest hotels. Don Payne notes an unprecedented boom.

Circus Circus Enterprises Las Vegas Mirage Don Payne

Vegas calls more than high rollers

Midwest travelers can save on a Las Vegas trip with two for one air and hotel deals from Cedar Rapids departure points. Off peak travel Sunday through Thursday lowers costs at Ballys and Caesars Palace, with show tickets around 25 dollars and meals from two to seven dollars for breakfast to dinner.

Las Vegas Cedar Rapids Ameriwest Vacations America West Airlines Midwest Doug Anderson International Tours of Ated Bally’s Caesars Palace Anderson

High-Tech Travel Dreams Spark 1990s Vacation Imagery

The piece envisions a 1997 trip powered by a credit-card sized SmartCard storing passport visa airline and hotel data. John Q Tourist books flights hotels and visas online uses a high tech Dulles airport experience and navigates Acapulco with a multilangue GPS style system, foreshadowing future travel tech.

Washington John Q John Tourist Hungary Quayle John TravelFacts Acapulco Dulles Airport Jim Prosser At&t Vait Gilmore American Society of Travel Agents

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