Consumer Electronics Show opening in Las Vegas (Seattle Times)

The world's largest consumer-technology trade show revs to life in Las Vegas this week in the midst of a deep recession with consumer confidence at an all-time low.

Big tech shows scale back (San Francisco Chronicle)

With the economy casting a gloomy shadow and industry titans Steve Jobs and Bill Gates stepping away, Macworld Expo in San Francisco and the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week are expected to be more low-key affairs. The two shows, normally...

Tix Corporation Achieves Another Milestone With 250,000 Discount Dinner Reservations Sold in Las Vegas in 2008 (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)

STUDIO CITY, Calif., Jan. 5, 2009 -- Tix Corporation , a leading integrated entertainment company providing discount and premium ticketing services, event and branded merchandising, and production/promotion of live concert and theatrical events, today announced that during 2008, the Company sold more than 250,000 discount dinner reservations to Las Vegas area restaurants.

Las Vegas Sun (Las Vegas Sun)

Kirk Montero, Jim Gibbons' now-aborted choice to head the state Tourism Commission, touted his "keen understanding" of Asia in his cover letter, which came with a resume that shows he ran some tour companies and coached gate agents at Reno airport.

Trade shows bringing mobs to Vegas when it needs it most (Las Vegas Sun)

Strip resorts, restaurants, show producers and exotic dancers reeling from slumping tourism will get a boost in coming weeks with four major conventions and trade shows each bringing more than 80,000 attendees to town. The largest of them, the International Consumer Electronics Show, anticipates 2,700 exhibitors, about the same as last year.

Vegas' 2009 forecast (Los Angeles Times)

Uncertain convention season, safe shows and CityCenter mark Vegas' calendar amid tough economic times. When you talk to insiders about what 2009 holds in store for Las Vegas, most answers are given a significant caveat: "All else being equal."