International visitation to Las Vegas from Canada and European countries sagged in 2025, but arrivals from Mexico, Asia and Australia improved last year, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported Monday.
The LVCVA reported international visitation was down 4.8 percent from 2024, falling to 4.7 million visitors.
The comprehensive report listing visitation totals from 28 foreign destinations to Las Vegas showed travel from North American countries down 9.2 percent, to 2.4 million people, with a 17.4 percent drop from Canada and a 1 percent increase from Mexico.
It’s been widely reported that prospective Canadian visitors are upset with President Donald Trump’s tariff policies while others are incensed with his remarks about Canada someday becoming the 51st U.S. state.
“Core markets in Europe including the U.K., Germany and France saw year-over-year declines while Asia-Pacific countries of Australia, South Korea and Japan saw year-over-year increases,” said Kevin Bagger, vice president of the LVCVA’s Research Center.
Las Vegas’ leading overseas source of visitation, the United Kingdom, had a 1.4 percent decline in visitors, to 521,700, when compared with 2024.
About half of foreign visitors to Las Vegas come from North American destinations with roughly a 50-50 split between Canada and Mexico.
The United Kingdom was the largest overseas source of visitors with 11 percent of all foreign travelers coming from there.
Visitation from South Korea and Japan increased in 2025 over the previous year with Japanese visits among the highest percentage increases at 10.5 percent to 126,000. South Korean visitation was up 3 percent to 158,200 and Australian visits climbed 4.2 percent to 275,500.
Other countries had double-digit percentage increases over 2024 — 16.2 percent to 35,800 from Taiwan, 11.1 percent to 33,100 from Argentina, 11 percent to 14,100 from Turkey and 16.1 percent to 10,100 from Hong Kong.
But other destinations suffered double-digit percentage declines — 13.6 percent to 44,300 from the Netherlands and 13.8 percent to 11,900 from Denmark.
Multiple air carriers offer nonstop flights to Harry Reid International Airport from several Canadian and Mexican destinations. Four carriers have nonstop flights to and from the United Kingdom, while KLM offers nonstop flights to and from Amsterdam and Korean Air has nonstop flights to and from Seoul, South Korea. Nonstop flights between Paris and Las Vegas just began last month on Air France.
New nonstop service from Sydney, Australia, is coming on Qantas Airlines starting in December.
Since 2019, when the COVID-19 pandemic began showing its effects, international arrivals have been down 16.4 percent to Las Vegas, according to the LVCVA report.
Contact Richard N. Velotta at rvelotta@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3893. Follow @RickVelotta on X.
Top 10 countries for tourist arrivals
Here’s a list of the top 10 countries from which international visitors arrived to Las Vegas in 2025.
Country Total visits Change from 2024
1. Canada 1.2 million -17.4%
2. Mexico 1.19 million +1%
3. United Kingdom 521,700 -1.4%
4. Australia 275,500 +4.2%
5. Germany 176,400 -3.3%
6. South Korea 158,200 +3%
7. Brazil 136,900 -0.9%
8. Japan 126,000 +10.5%
9. China 98,300 +8.6%
10. France 80,000 -7.4%
