All things Niagara Falls tourism…
Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls (there are also quite a few pictures as well):
Since we were driving upstate for a wedding, Jay and I figured we’d stop at beautiful Niagara Falls, Ontario. The Falls, which is made up of both the American and Canadian Falls, has great water attractions and views that kept us busy for a couple days.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Pain at the pumps could convince some travellers to cut back on spending and rethink their travel plans. But for those taking a stroll around Table Rock Tuesday, the allure of the magnificent falls was just too much to resist.
“It’s pretty awesome, such a spectacular view,” said Tom Morrisett, who brought his wife and kids to Niagara Falls from Richmond, Va. for the first time.
“A tank of gas to come here cost me about $65 and an ice cream bar $5, among other things. But going under the falls and experiencing the (Maid of the Mist) boat ride was something else.
“We like it and will come back sometime.”
Tourism in Niagara has been kind of like the weather so far this summer: Unpredictable.
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From the Niagara Falls Review:
Once a carnie town, always a carnie town?
That’s the logic both downtown businesses and the tourism industry are using to get you to buy into events like Monday’s plunge from the Skylon Tower by daredevil Dean Sullivan and next month`s Daredevil Days festival.
Niagara Falls has a nearly 200-year-old history of stuntmen and stuntwomen. As long as people with more courage than common sense have been coming to Niagara Falls, they have been defying death by going over, jumping from, walking across or riding through the incredible geographic features that define Niagara Falls.
When Sullivan rappelled from the Skylon Tower, it revived the dormant Niagara Falls tradition of cheating death to amuse the masses.
“You have to go back to our roots. They came here to see the daredevils,” said Wayne Thomson, a city councillor and chairman of the Daredevil Days festival coming up in August.
“After you look at the falls… what do people wonder about? What are they fascinated about? They’re fascinated about daredevils,” Thomson said.
From the St. Catharines Standard:
Tourism in Niagara has been kind of like the weather so far this summer: unpredictable.
Soaring gas prices, a slow U. S. economy, ongoing confusion over border crossing rules, a weak U. S. dollar, constant construction on the QEW and rainy skies have dampened this year’s tourism season in Niagara.
Pain at the pumps may cause some travellers to cut back on spending and rethink their travel plans, said Patrick Gedge, chief executive officer of the Niagara Economic Development Corp., which runs Tourism Niagara.
“There is just no predictability,” Gedge said. “When I talk to tourism operators, you know, one weekend is great, then the next week isn’t. Then the week after is great. They’re just finding it incredibly difficult to even make projections in terms of their business because it is highly erratic.”
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