Article: Travelers, thinking Las Vegas is more pricey than before, adjust their budgets.

By Rod Smith, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 19--While recent surveys suggest visitors are increasingly viewing Las Vegas as a more and more expensive vacation destination, their response so far has been to increase their travel budgets rather than head for less-expensive vacation spots, a new MRC Group Research Institute survey completed Sept. 10 showed.

"People are recognizing the cost of coming to Las Vegas is going up, but they're seeing value so we haven't hit an ouch factor," said Jim Medick, chief executive officer of the MRC Group, Nevada's largest market research and public polling firm.

He ...

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