Tourism initiative throws Doors Open; Niagara sites highlighted during ‘wonderful analogy’ for cross-border tourism

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Graham
on October 12, 2006
in Niagara Falls Events and Niagara Falls News
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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.

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3 Responses to “Tourism initiative throws Doors Open; Niagara sites highlighted during ‘wonderful analogy’ for cross-border tourism”

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  1. 1 niagara
    October 12, 2006 at 9:37 am

    I havent read anywhere that the push back was official?

  2. 2 Fallsview
    October 12, 2006 at 9:47 am

    Graham have you heard anything? The article makes it sound as though it has been passed through, but it would have been in the news by now.

  3. 3 Graham
    October 26, 2006 at 11:02 am

    Sorry for the delay in answering this..
    On Friday, September 29, 2006 the House and Senate approved bill HR5441 which extends the date for requiring a passport for land travel to June 2009.
    You can read about this on the House of Representatives Committee on Rules web site. Click on the “Text of H.R. 5441″ link to download a PDF. On page 10 of that PDF, in the middle of the middle column it says the following:

    (A) The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall develop and implement a plan as expeditiously as possible to require a passport or other document, or combination of documents, deemed by the Secretary of Homeland Security to be sufficient to denote identity and citizenship, for all travel into the United States by United States citizens and by categories of individuals for whom documentation requirements have previously been waived under section 212(d)(4)
    (B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(4)(B)). This plan shall be implemented not later than three months after the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security make the certifications required in subsection (B), or June 1, 2009, whichever is earlier. The plan shall seek to expedite the travel of frequent travelers, including those who reside in border communities, and in doing so, shall make readily available a registered traveler.

    So it seems that it could be moved up if they get things arranged sooner, but the hard date is June 1, 2009

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