Daily Archive for October 17th, 2007

Clifton Hill on Flickr

A Flickr user who goes by Stacy_Lynn has posted some great pictures of Niagara Falls

Fallsview train earns tourism award

From Niagara This Week:

A VIA train car wrapped up to look like a slot machine with special casino service inside has earned VIA Rail, the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort and Peller Estates honours for best tourism marketing partnership from the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Awards…

“Being recognized by your peers in tourism is always nice,” said Medulun Friday. “This was all about bringing the Niagara experience to Torontonians so they could have a taste, then bringing them back to Niagara Falls for the real thing. “This was to create awareness our property existed in our target market. It was less about transactions and more about generating exposure for our brand.”

Cirque Niagara folds its tent after second season

From Niagara This Week:

The demise of Cirque Niagara’s Avaia may have more to do with a flawed business plan than with succumbing to some of the challenges in the new tourism landscape, says the chair of Niagara Falls Tourism.

It’s not expected that other major attractions will be closing up, said Wayne Thomson, chair of Niagara Falls Tourism. In fact some new developments are moving ahead at full-speed.

“It mystifies me (Cirque’s reasoning). With the dollar, passport confusion, the border, terrorism, SARS that people are still coming to Niagara Falls,” said Thomson. “People are still coming and filling up hotels.”