Vegas Strip to hold New Year’s fireworks after 2020 hiatus | Travel News

Las Vegas: Fireworks that have been known as off final yr as a result of coronavirus pandemic are returning to the Las Vegas Strip on New 12 months’s Eve with a theme pointed towards 2022 Deuces Wild and the addition of an eighth hotel-top launching place, tourism and elected officers introduced Thursday.

Other than final yr, America’s Celebration‘ has been the culminating occasion of the whole yr for greater than 20 years, mentioned Pat Christenson, president of Las Vegas Occasions, a non-profit company created to supply and assist large occasions.

1000’s of revellers nonetheless congregated on casino-lined Las Vegas Boulevard final yr regardless of the cancelled fireworks. There was no point out throughout a information convention previewing this yr’s occasion of the potential impact of the emergence and unfold in current weeks of the omicron variant of COVID-19.

Fireworks have been first held on the Strip on the final evening of 2000. The show has helped make New 12 months’s Eve one in all Las Vegas‘ greatest occasions, drawing greater than 300,000 revellers, in keeping with tourism officers, and filling the tourism-dependent metropolis’s greater than 250,000 lodge rooms.

With the ability to host this occasion once more is so particular as a result of it permits us to shut out the yr in a memorable approach, Christenson mentioned in an announcement accompanying Thursday’s announcement.

Fireworks by Grucci designs and choreographs the eight-minute pyrotechnic show from atop resort properties that final yr included MGM Grand, Aria, Planet Hollywood, Caesars Palace, Treasure Island, Venetian and The STRAT tower. It’s accompanied by a soundtrack airing on two on FM radio stations in Las Vegas.

This yr the present will add Resorts World Las Vegas, which opened final June.

A Las Vegas Conference and Guests Authority government, H. Fletch Brunelle, famous that entertainers booked at varied venues for New 12 months’s weekend embrace Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Maroon 5 and Usher.