From the Niagara Falls Review:
Arlene White sees Doors Open Niagara as “a wonderful analogy” for cross-border tourism.
“(Americans and Canadians) see this area as one region. We see what others who live outside binational regions don’t see. And Doors Open is a wonderful analogy for our border. We just need to keep expanding things like this,” said White, executive director of the Binational Tourism Alliance.
She officially launched the 2006 Doors Open Niagara program – which will take place at 111 locations in Western New York and Southern Ontario Saturday and Sunday – during a ceremony at the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission Rainbow Promenade Friday.
It was a fitting location for the event, named Meet Me at the Border.
With the falls and long lines of traffic as a backdrop, politicians and tourism advocates from each side of the border praised the initiative, which allows visitors to check out sites they’ve never been to before free of charge.
They also offered praise for U.S. lawmakers who earlier this week officially pushed back the deadline for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.