Boing Boing, the popular blog, had a posting recently about “Niagara Falls’s secret tunnel“:
The Vanishing Point, a site dedicated to urban exploration and secrets of the built environment, has a page about the massive abandoned Tailrace tunnel at Niagara Falls. (The entire Vanishing Point site is mesmerizing, rich with great writing and fantastic photography.) Part of the decommissioned Toronto Power Co. hydroelectric plant, the tunnel is ten stories underground and only accessible through a hidden slit in the ceiling.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Ontario needs to focus its tourism dollars on its strengths in Niagara, Ottawa and Toronto instead of spreading it across the province, says the executive director of The Binational Tourism Alliance.
Too often, the Ontario government tries to divvy up its tourism cash to every nook of the province, but the focus should be on tourist hot spots such as Niagara, said Arlene White, whose office tracks tourism in Niagara and upstate New York.
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A strong Canadian dollar, high gas prices and confusion over entry rules at the Canada-U.S. border hit tourism hard last year.
“Certainly the last couple of years have been extremely difficult,” said Patrick Gedge, chief executive officer of the Niagara Economic Development Corp., which oversees Tourism Niagara.
Visits were down about 10 to 20 per cent last year, largely because of a drop in U.S. visitors, Gedge said.
Someone with a LiveJournal blog wrote about a trip to Hollywood and compared it to Clifton Hill:
Hollywood reminds me of Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls. Clifton Hill is the gaudy tourist strip built in the 1950’s to ‘modernize’ tourism in the city by bringing the high cultures of wax museums, haunted houses, and overpriced plastic garbage to the city. It was likely modelled on Hollywood itself.
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