May 27, 2007
Vegas welcomes Youth $occer
Las Vegas expects a $14 million economic impact by hosting US Youth Soccer's west region championships - and that's not including money left in the casinos by the 5,000 visitors (players, coaches, team and tournament officials and family members) for the June 18-24 games. More than 250 boys and girls teams, U-12 through U-19, will be vying to advance to the national championship tournaments. Vegas figures on 35,000 "room nights" being booked at area hotels during the seven-day event.