Regular visitor Dan linked to this article in a comment to a previous post…
From the Toronto Star:
Okay, everybody, repeat after me: “What happens in Niagara Falls stays in Niagara Falls.”
Doesn’t have quite the same zing as the original? Well, get used to it, because our city of the whirling waters is definitely trying to position itself as a smaller, wetter version of Las Vegas … especially in the area of entertainment.
And considering the way the tourist business is going in North America, it’s a necessary move.
Conventional vacation destinations are all suffering a decline in attendance. From Yellowstone Park to Disney World, the numbers are way, way down over the past few years.
Even a local Ontario icon like the Maid of the Mist is reportedly taking in 40 per cent fewer customers than it did not that long ago.