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Luxor Las Vegas. Picture by Thereza Eugenia
Las Vegas
is not like other cities. No city in history has so explicitly valued the needs
of visitors above those of its own population. All its growth has been fueled by
tourism, but the tourists haven't spoiled the "real" city; there is no real
city. Las Vegas doesn't have fascinating little-known neighborhoods, and
it's not a place where visitors can go off the beaten track to have more
authentic experiences. Instead, the whole thing is completely self-referential;
the reason
Las Vegas boasts the vast majority of the world's largest hotels
is that around thirty-seven million tourists each year come to see the hotels
themselves.
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