LAS VEGAS – Visitors to ********* last year spent an estimated $723 each says a report that pins the value of tourism at $50 billion total.

The ********* Convention and Visitors Authority commissioned the economic impact report presented at the agency’s Tuesday meeting by Applied Analysis.

The agency says 41 million travellers visited ********* last year, its most on record. Spending per visitor is also up by $33 compared to 2013 with convention-goers spending more than leisure travellers.

Jeremy Aguero with Applied Analysis says 2014 represented the highest visitor spending the destination has ever seen on everything but ********.

The report says one in four southern Nevada workers are directly employed in tourism accounting for nearly 25 per cent of all wages.