Las Vegas hotel machinery doesn’t seem to stop to grow, several projects totalizing thousands of new rooms were announced only last year, but is the city of las Vegas prepared and in full capacity to fill the thousands of luxury hotel rooms currently being built?. The city’s infrastructure is reaching the top, the Las Vegas roads are already overfilled and about to collapse and the airports don’t have the capability to increase the air traffic or attend more visitors. However, the Las Vegas hotels and casino owners continue with the plan to build over forty thousand new rooms, which represents a third of the actual capacity.

To recover the investment justify those rooms, the hotels’ revenue will need to rise by 75% in the next four years, which will be "difficult to impossible" due the city’s current problems on transportation infrastructure said Bill Lerner, Deutsche Bank analyst and expert.

Plans for a new airport are still under development and the chances to initiate a new project before 2017 are really thin. Several hotels and resorts such as the Encore, CityCenter and Boyd Gaming's

Echelon Place

, are under construction and more projects have been recently revealed. Lerner also declared that is likely that the hotels will be forced to drop their prices below what operators had intended in order to recover the investments. Las Vegas gambling revenues decreased about 1% in the last quarter of 2007, a fact that makes Lerner think that the general revenues for Las Vegas in 2008 will slow down in comparison with the previous year.