LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — Though foot traffic has dipped across Las Vegas, the Entertainment Capital of the World is far from “dead” as visitors and locals flock to budget locations that provide “value.”

Visitor volume is down 11.3% in June, according to the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority; more than 3 million people visited the Las Vegas Valley that month.

“‘Dead’ is, I think, much more of a of an exaggeration. I think we’re taking like a 45-minute nap here,” Dr. Amanda Belarmino of UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hospitality explains to FOX5.

“Three million [visitors] in June is still a lot of people. It’s more than the population of Rome or Paris, and as a comparison, the Grand Canyon, which is one of the most visited national parks, has about 4.3 million people a year,

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