Officials at McCarran International Airport say they're doubling the number of international gates in Las Vegas with the expectation that foreign travel to the destination will climb.
The airport told a governor-appointed panel looking at southern Nevada tourism issues that construction to convert part of an existing link between its D concourse and one of its two terminals into seven additional international gates would begin later this year.
Among the new gates will be one to accommodate a wide-body double-decker A-380 aircraft.
The president and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has also made it a goal to increase international travel, including a possible program directed specifically at boosting Chinese travel. There are no direct flights to Las Vegas from Japan and China.
