Daily Archive for October 26th, 2007

Clifton Hill / Victoria Avenue intersection construction

The city is doing construction work at the top of Clifton Hill at Victoria Avenue. The traffic lights have been taken out (I assume temporarily) and they’ve taken out the turning lane (I assume permanently) on Victoria Avenue that let you turn down Clifton Hill.

What’s it cost to visit near the falls?

From the Niagara Falls Review:

It is often said by locals and visitors that dining in the tourist areas costs more than it does to eat in the same restaurants in other parts of the city or region.

Here’s what we found at several local eating spots:

Tough competition, market conditions leave tourism operators wondering

From the Niagara Falls Review:

This is the second in a three-part series looking at the state of the city’s tourism industry.

Every year, more than 12 million people from around the world travel to Niagara Falls.

Well-heeled and blue-collar families from cities and towns in New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio; daytrippers from Western New York and southern Ontario; travellers from Britain, Europe, South America and Asia; singles, couples - they all come here.

But the awesome sight of the rushing water can only hold the attention of visitors for so long before it is time to move on to something else.

It’s finding that ’something else’ to appeal to a broad range of visitors that is so often the problem, say tourism insiders.