Probably not much further ahead than their own golden-parachute retirement party.

I saw on another blog that It’s based on distance from the “Strip”, which officially ends at Sahara Avenue to the North. Thus Sahara is “Strip”; but Strat, like Vegas World before it, is “Downtown”: that is, on Las Vegas Blvd. but not on the Strip proper.
Anything within about one mile on either side of the official “Strip” counts: so Ellis Island, Gold Coast, Hard Rock/Virgin, Palace Station, Rio, Silver Sevens, Tuscany, Westgate, and Wild Wild West are all “Strip”; but Orleans is too far away. I don’t think they consider South Point to be “Strip,” either, but don’t know where the Southern boundary is.
And FWIW, Green Valley Ranch and M Resort are “Boulder Strip”; and Silverton, Primm Valley, and Cal-Nev-Ari are “Clark County Miscellaneous.”
Like you said, Go figure….

Ha, didn’t know that about Silver Sevens! Too good.

Very well said, I absolutely agree .

You are correct no one is forced to visit Las Vegas or the strip. However Vegas is a tourist destination and they do need to watch what they are doing. People are flooding in right now because they have been cooped up for over a year but prior to the pandemic Vegas visitors stagnated and actually decreased from 2016. People that want to visit a casino have more options now that more states are opening them. If Vegas nickel and dimes the value out of every aspect of a vacation people will just go to their local casinos instead. Look what happened to Atlantic City, that place is a ghost town now and has been for some time. Granted that Vegas has a lot more going for it but the business model of Atlantic City was people will come cause there is no casino market competition. When competition came from other states they upped fees and took comps away to stop losing the income they were getting prior to the competition. As a result less and less people went. Las Vegas isn’t above the same kind of decline if they choose to continue down the path they are going with fees for everything.

Paid parking, like resort fees, are here to stay until the people in charge see severe slippage in numbers. It doesn’t make it better but it’s their business. No one is forced to visit Las Vegas or the strip.