Las Vegas - City of Lights

Las Vegas, USA

The earthTV camera is placed on top of Treasure Island Hotel and will offer an amazing view over the entire Strip (including the replicas of the Eiffel Tower and the Grand Canal of Venice as well as the illuminated Treasure Island and Bellagio Fountains).
Las Vegas, with about 560,000 citizens, is the most populous city in the US Sate of Nevada. Being an internationally renowned major city for gambling, shopping and fine dining, the city bills itself as “The Entertainment Capital of the World” and is famous for the number of casino resorts and associated entertainment. Thus, Las Vegas attracts about 39 million tourists every year.
Along the 6.8 km long Las Vegas Boulevard known as The Strip visitors and locals will find numerous casinos, hotels, bars, restaurants, shopping facilities and theatres in which the famous shows such the ones by illusionists David Copperfield and Siegfried & Roy or Cirque du Soleil.

Treasure Island Hotel

Facts about: USA

Geographic Information

As the world's third largest country, the landscape in the United States varies greatly: temperate forestland on the East coast, mangrove forests in Florida, the Great Plains in the center of the country, the Mississippi-Missouri river system, the Rocky Mountains west of the plains, deserts and temperate coastal zones west of the Rocky Mountains and rainforests in the Pacific Northwest. The arctic regions of Alaska and the volcanic islands of Hawaii only increase the geographic and climatic diversity.

Key aspects of tourism
Tourism in the USA is as various as the country itself: city trips to New York or L.A., beach holidays in Florida or California or the wonders of nature (Niagara Falls, Rocky Mountains) are possible tourist destinations.