From the Niagara Falls Review: Anxious to attract new visitors, tourism marketers in Niagara Falls aren’t waiting for the Chinese government to grant Canadian destinations permission to market to the country’s 1.3 billion people. “(We) can’t market to the Chinese citizens, but we can market to the trade partners,” said Anna Pierce, manager of Niagara…
From the Niagara Falls Review: A new admission policy at the Avalon Ballroom may leave ticket buyers feeling burned, worries one local parent. On Wednesday morning, Niagara Falls resident Sarah Kennedy purchased two tickets to an upcoming Alice Cooper concert at the Avalon, located inside the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort. One was for her husband…
I generally wouldn’t put this sort of thing on the blog, but I drive or walk by this billboard regularly and it bugs me. It’s for Mints, an “adult entertainment club” on Main Street. The part that bugs me is the line at the top of the billboard: Better Odds Than The Casino Baby What…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Trying to beat the heat has been a whale of a challenge this summer, but not for the folks who care for the menagerie of animals at Marineland. As Marineland’s pod of belugas hail from the cool arctic waters along the Russian coast, they don’t care too much for the…
I’ve written a few posts about the new Asian restaurant on Stanley Avenue. I’m a couple of weeks behind on this latest news, but it finally has a name. It is A Young Garden which makes Japanese and Korean cuisine. Click here to see all the posts on the development of this property.
The August edition of the Business News Update from the City of Niagara Falls has a 2-page article about the Great Wolf Lodge: You can download the PDF of the newsletter directly from the City of Niagara Falls web site.
From the Globe and Mail: The U.S. government has confirmed what many Canadian officials and business people have long feared that the economic burden of the border-passport requirement will weigh more heavily on Canada than on the United States. Washington says its plan to require passport-like documents on cross-border traffic beginning in 2008 will have…
From Niagara This Week: Council is going to investigate keeping chartered motor coaches from stopping in front of hotels, plugging up major roadways leading in and out of the tourist area, while they unload their passengers. Buses stopping in front of hotels on streets like Stanley Avenue have been causing problems for municipal parking bylaw…
From Commercial Property News: Grand Niagara Resort Inc., a partnership that owns and operates a new golf course in Niagara Falls, Ontario, is planning a C$300 million expansion of the facility. At its completion, scheduled for 2010, the 800-acre complex will include another golf course, a Hilton hotel, conference facility, time-share condos, homesites, a winery…
This interesting article from the Globe and Mail is about the author’s trip to the Fallsview Casino. There was one part near the middle of the article that stood out to me: Fallsview is so tasteful and appealing, it’s almost disruptive  especially when you consider that just three blocks away you can stroll lurid,…