Twitter updates for 2010-02-27

Just spoke to a nice reporter from Toronto Star about a proposed increase in US passport fee. We’ll see if she includes any of my thoughts # I took a video that I will post a little later… # It “makes her eyes water a little bit” # Here she goes!!! # There must be…

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See the sword — and then swallow it

From the Niagara Falls Review: It’s not a holiday yet, but sword swallowers have made today their own. World Sword Swallowers Day will see performers send steel down the hatch at more than a dozen Ripley’s Believe It or Not museums throughout the world, including Clifton Hill. Toronto’s Vanessa Neil does the deed at 2:27…

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‘Extremely bleak’ conditions still dog Niagara’s tourism industry

From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission wasn’t the only business to struggle in 2009. The tourism industry as a whole had to scratch and claw its way through a year hampered by unseasonable weather, new passport requirements and a deadly influenza strain. “It’s extremely bleak out there,” said Niagara Falls Tourism chairman…

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Americans a tough crowd to draw

From the Niagara Falls Review: It was a year to forget for the Niagara Parks Commission. The provincial agency saw a dramatic decline in foreign visitation in 2009. Whether it was H1N1, which literally stopped international travel for a period of time, the coolest and wettest summer since 1992, rising fuel prices, or the rception…

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Creme de la Crema at Niagara Square

This isn’t exactly in the main tourist district, but I was emailed about this so I figured I’d pass it along… Chris Tollins and his wife have opened a new café and boutique in Niagara Falls called Creme de la Crema. It has been their dream for a while to do this, and with the…

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Trainers safe from killer whales at Marineland

From the Niagara Falls Review: The death of a SeaWorld trainer who was attacked by a killer whale Wednesday has little chance of happening at Marineland in Niagara Falls, a company spokeswoman said. That’s because Marineland stopped performances with trainers and whales 12 years ago with the opening of its viewing facility Friendship Cove. “We…

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Only 3 days left!

On Tuesday I received the latest newsletter from the Hilton Hotel and Suites Niagara Falls Fallsview. To subscribe to the newsletter, fill out the form on the left-hand side of any page on the Hilton Hotel and Suites Niagara Falls Fallsview web site.

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Niagara Falls Lures Honeymooners Again

From an EU News Network press release: Economic woes and an episode of the TV comedy “The Office” have lured honeymooners to the U.S. and Canadian sides of Niagara Falls, experts say. Kate Scaglione, a spokeswoman for the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corporation, told CNN the number of hits on the wedding section of its…

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Dirty Washrooms at Fast Food Chains

Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent bad experience at the Burger King on Clifton Hill: Why do multi-national food chains, with billions of dollars in profits all have the worst washrooms in the country? I recently had lunch on Clifton Hill at Niagara Falls . Me and my family ate at the…

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