Niagara Falls gets funding help for New Year’s Eve

From Niagara This Week: The City has managed to secure $240,000 to help stage the annual New Year’s Eve celebration at Queen Victoria Park. Staff was successful in obtaining a pair of grants — $184,500 from the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport’s Celebrate Ontario fund and an additional $50,000 from the Niagara Tourism Partnership.

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Top 10 university student destinations

From the Simcoe Reformer: It’s summer holidays and that means university students around the world are working and travelling for adventure and experience. In the spirit of youthful exploration online travel adviser Cheapflights.com offers its top 10 year-round list of destinations for scholars on a budget. Reuters has not endorsed this list: 1. Niagara Falls,…

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Orbitz.com Customers Name Favorite Hotels for 2014

From a Globe Newswire press release seen on Yahoo! Finance: Orbitz.com today announced the winners of the 2014 Best In Stay Awards, which honor nearly 400 top-rated hotels in 75 popular destinations based on reviews by Orbitz customers. There are up to five Best In Stay winners in each destination, and hotels with the highest…

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Exploring Clifton Hill on a scooter

From the Niagara Falls Review: Are you having any fun? Has your disability, the wheelchair or scooter, stolen your inner child? Think Clifton Hill. It’s always talked about as the tacky or zany part of the Niagara Falls experience. Something like a nutsy, loud brother-in-law that is part of the family but everyone wishes he’d…

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