From the Niagara Falls Review:
A soaring loonie will mean less dollars in the pockets of the city’s tourism industry stakeholders, experts say.
“I’m shaken,” said Anna Pierce, executive director of Niagara Falls Tourism. “Everyone’s worried.”
The Canadian dollar closed at 94.07 cents (U.S.) Tuesday, down 0.41 cents from Monday’s close, and a step away from the 30-year highs of the previous week.
“You can’t plan for this. We can see the dollar creeping up but we have no way of knowing something like this is going to happen.”
Pierce said since the SARS crisis, the organization has focused on attracting more Canadian travellers to the city. But with Canadians getting a better bang for their buck across the border, Pierce fears her target market will head straight to the bridge. “(The low dollar) was always a competitive advantage,” she said. “Now we have to get really creative. We have to work harder. We have to make up that difference.”
From the Niagara Falls Review:
It’s official: Niagara Falls can call itself a wonder of Canada.
Despite finishing second in online voting, the honeymoon capital received a thumbs-up from CBC’s Seven Wonders of Canada judges Thursday night in a much-hyped segment on The National.
Oddly enough, Thunder Bay’s Sleeping Giant peninsula - which beat the cataract city by about 75,000 votes when public online polling closed May 31 - did not make the cut.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Town councillors face tough times as they grapple with one of the most controversial issues in recent memory, says Lord Mayor Gary Burroughs.
He said it will be at least three weeks before council will debate whether to allow Whirlpool Jet Boat Tours to continue leasing a dock on Melville Street.
“We have some difficult times ahead as we try to summarize everything we’ve heard and make a decision - which we will make,” he told a crowd this week at Niagara District Secondary School, during the second night Wednesday of a two-part meeting on the issue.
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