He's probably right. Mandalay Resort Group recently used the Web to auction off a holiday package. Mandalay had no trouble getting its price, but more important, benefited from millions of hits during the several days the auction was in progress on E-Bay. The end result of all this attention being paid to e-commerce is going to be a change in the way Las Vegas reaches out to the world. Pollsters putting together the annual visitor profile for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority have long perpetuated a crucial distortion, the belief that most visitors don't decide what they're going to do until they reach Las Vegas.
Visitors begin gathering information, insights, etc., long before they step off the plane.
They have a strong sense of what they want to do before they leave home. That's why the hundreds of millions of daily hits on Las Vegas-related websites are changing the way business is done in Las Vegas. That change will continue to evolve. We've long recognized that fact of life at Las Vegas Style. We regularly hear from subscribers or people familiar with the magazine who want information for planning their trips.