By Editor,Will Potter

Copyright dailymail

Las Vegas’s rapidly declining tourism industry has been dealt another hammer blow as its main airport reported slumping passenger numbers for the third month in a row.

Sin City has struggled throughout 2025 amid skyrocketing prices, falling rates of hotel stays and a lack of tourists to the Nevada party hub.

August recorded 4.56million passengers – an almost 6percent drop compared to the same month last year, figures from Harry Reid International Airport shows.

The data follows a trend throughout the summer, with total passengers down 4.5 percent this year from 2024 numbers.

The sharpest decline has been fueled by budget carrier Spirit Airlines, which carried just over 400,000 passengers to Las Vegas last month – a steep 46.3 percent drop from August 2024.

Spirit’s fleet was severely hit earlier in the year as it was forced to ground over 50 planes amid technical issues with its fleet and financial woes. But the latest statistics showed several other airlines have also lost business in Las Vegas in the last month.

The report cemented a steep decline in tourism to Las Vegas, with previous statistics from April showing it was losing upwards of 300,000 visitors per month since the start of 2025.

The city has recently dwindled in popularity, with many regarding it as overpriced.

Canadian tourists – whose custom has long been important to Sin City’s economy – are also boycotting it over Donald Trump’s threats to turn their country into the 51st state.

Air Canada reported a year-over-year passenger decline of 40 percent in 2025, a sharp drop given that Canadians typically make up Las Vegas’s highest percentage of overseas tourists.

According to the Las Vegas Sun, the airport added that its poor August travel data includes travel-heavy Labor Day weekend, which typically sees increased tourism at the end of the month.

Alongside a drop in tourism from Canadians, sky-high prices in Sin City – including poolside beers being sold at a 15 times markup – have been blamed for driving away customers.

As the downward trend was beginning to snowball in February, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority president and chief executive Steve Hill told the Las Vegas Review Journal that he was hearing from many angry Canadians about the president.

‘There’s an awful lot of the anecdotal conversation around Canadians being angry and upset about tariffs and talk around annexing the country,’ he said.

‘We’ve seen consumer confidence numbers drop pretty significantly over the past couple of months.’

In May, the World Travel and Tourism Council also reported that in its forecasts for 2025, the US was set to lose $12.5 billion in international visitor spending.

‘While other nations are rolling out the welcome mat, the US government is putting up the ‘closed’ sign,’ Julia Simpson, the council’s president and chief executive, said in a news release at the time.