From the Niagara Falls Review:
Donald Ziraldo envisions a day when North America becomes a borderless continent.
“Get rid of the border, that’s the simplest solution to me,” Ziraldo said during a three-hour roundtable discussion on the challenges facing Niagara’s tourism industry at Niagara College Wednesday. “We should follow the European Union model. Any of you worried about losing your Canadian identity - get over it. Ask an Italian or German if they lost their identity after the EU.”
Ziraldo was one of 14 speakers to address a group of tourism and hospitality students during the 311/42-hour session, aimed at finding solutions to the problems which have plagued the industry since the beginning of the new millennium.
While the session, moderated by Niagara College president Dan Patterson, was intended to give students an insiders’ view of the industry they plan to enter, the session also gave panelists a chance to be brutally honest about the problems facing tourism in Niagara and much of Canada in 2007.
Yesterday I took a picture of the new fudge store on Clifton Hill. It is coming along nicely. The main structure seems to be done (always takes the longest). I’m sure we’ll see it moving even faster now.Â
Last Tuesday I received the latest newsletter from the Niagara Falls Marriott Fallsview. They are promoting Spring Break packages.
You can subscribe to the newsletter by clicking on the Special Email Offers link on the side of the Marriott Niagara Falls Fallsview & Spa main page.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
News that Niagara Falls continues to lose ground against cities vying for American tourists wasn’t what members of Niagara Falls Tourism wanted to hear, said the organization’s chairman, Wayne Thomson.
But, he said, it is just what they had to hear if they want to reverse the trend.
“Although there is some negativity in some of the comments, it was essential to know,” Thomson said of the report, prepared by Niagara Tourism Research Institute general director Michael Halle and presented to Niagara Falls Tourism at a meeting at the Ameri-Cana resort last week.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
The Niagara Parks Commission’s green people mover buses keep chugging along. They have been in service for about 22 years, shuttling tourists along the Niagara Parkway from one attraction to the next. The bodies are getting old, seats are getting worn and the air conditioning doesn’t blast ice-cold anymore. But they’re still on the road.
And with the City of Niagara Falls and parks commission months - if not years - behind in developing a new Niagara Falls people mover, the parks commission has had to spend more than $1 million extending the life expectancy of its buses.
“I think we’re OK for a little while,” said John Kernahan, the parks commission’s general manager.
You’d almost think that Greg Frewin was performing today. The Falls have entirely disappeared!
Yesterday was cool and rainy in the morning and then it warmed up in the afternoon. Today is quite warm, and so there is fog over the water, but no where else. Walking along Queen Victoria Park is as clear as anything. The fog in the gorge is so thick that you can’t see any of the waterfalls at all!
I’m sure you’ve all heard by now that recently a man was rescued from the Niagara River. CNN has a video clip that shows some of Niagara Falls and shows where he was rescued. The video is about 1 minute long.
Note that CNN uses pop-ups so you may have to adjust your blocker.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
With Niagara Falls $35 million closer to a convention centre, the federal government’s plan to keep the GST rebate program for conventions and group tours is good news to those who feared millions of dollars in cancelled reservations.
But Chuck Loewen has little reason to celebrate.
Loewen is general manager of the Peace Bridge Duty Free, where some 40,000 rebates to individual travellers were processed last year.
“That’s not an insignificant number,” he said.
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