William Hornbuckle

Also, if you're staying at the Bellagio and look down, on the roof, like the roof of the casino, Those are the executive offices for most of MGM Resorts.

That is where Bill Hornbuckle, who's currently the CEO, calls his office.

One time I saw Bill Hornbuckle at the... at the spa spa slash salon at Bellagio.

Cause my, my brother was getting a haircut and I totally get it.

The, the lady who was the receptionist was very nervous taking his information.

For his part, Barry Diller said in a statement he's confident in both MGM's management and the company's prospects.

Moving forward, CEO Bill Hornbuckle, the CEO of MGM Resorts, will be on stage with me in Las Vegas next week for the industry's biggest conference, Scott.

So we'll probably hear more then.

Oh, good.

But anyway...

The thing that I am most worried about in Las Vegas, and actually I think, not I think, I know I was right about this because there was a thing with Bill Hornbuckle and a lot of hospitality leaders went to the White House a few weeks ago, and they basically said we need tourism back in America to be the focus because we cannot just be an event-driven town.

And I've been saying for maybe a year now, maybe more, we're becoming too dependent on big events.

Everything we're doing is F1 is here, Allegiant Stadium Raiders games, Golden Knights, big, you know, Conor McGregor's fighting.

or fourth, I think it's our fourth.

And, you know, Bill Hornbuckle was the first CEO at Mandalay Bay when it opened, you know, and he's now the CEO of all of MGM Resorts and a huge, he started as a bus boy, I heard the other day.

Can you imagine?

I mean, no, but some people are more ambitious with their lives than I am, I think.

know.

And we've had such an amazing relationship with, I mean, from the very beginning, from, you know, Mike Sloan and Bill...

Bill Hornbuckle.

No, but the other.

Very cute.

MGM CEO Bill Hornbuckle says that half of the guests who book stays at Luxor and Excalibur through the company's all-inclusive offer were first-time guests at MGM Properties.

Duh.

Because they didn't know any better.

That's why they're so successful.

So now I'd like to ask Jeff Freeman to say a few words, followed by President of MGM Resorts, Bill Hornbuckle, President of American Airlines, Robert Eisen, and President of Hilton, Chris.

Oh, and this is my — where's Chris? a good job so you're going to say a few words and maybe i'll start off with sean duffy and then you guys can go in that order okay thank you

thank you mr president uh this is a group of uh individuals that represent the travel industry that want to come in and thank you for a great summer of travel i thought the the coolest thing from the summer was we know the country in which we live in and it was great to see travelers from around the world come to america and remark on social media how beautiful it is, how friendly people are, the great restaurants and shopping and the number of flights and car rentals and the buses that they took.

That's why they're so successful.

So now I'd like to ask Jeff Freeman to say a few words, followed by President of MGM Resorts, Bill Hornbuckle, President of American Airlines, Robert Eisen, and President of Hilton, Chris.

Oh, and this is my — where's Chris? the money he's done a good job so you're gonna say a few words and maybe i'll

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ahead.

Mr.

President, I'm Bill Hornbuckle from MGM.

Hi, sure.