TV commercial promoting the virtues of Niagara Falls to debut tonight

From the Niagara Gazette: The city’s Community Development department is taking to the small screen in an effort to attract people to Niagara Falls. The department has commissioned two commercials highlighting Community Development programs and promoting the city as an ideal place to live, work and play.

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$40 million incentive package aims to spur Falls development

From the Buffalo News: The best ideas for new downtown development projects will have a crack at $40 million in public incentives, state and city officials announced Thursday. The state and the City of Niagara Falls are offering access to public dollars over the next five years as part of a competition dubbed the “Downtown…

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New Niagara Falls website launched

From the Niagara Gazette: Niagara Falls Up Close, a new website dedicated to promoting the region has been launched. The site is located at www.niagarafallsupclose.com and features important and interesting information for those wishing to visit Niagara Falls. The site has no commercial connection to any hotel, casino, restaurant or governmental municipality in the region….

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Niagara’s tourism industry welcomes special visitors

From the Niagara Falls Review: They are the people who can sell Niagara Falls to the world. It’s an opportunity that doesn’t come along often, so when nearly 250 representatives from travel agencies to big businesses come calling, those involved with Niagara’s tourism industry are ready to answer the call. “This is the first time…

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Effectiveness audit due for tourism agency in Niagara as Falls OKs contract

From the Buffalo News: The agency responsible for promoting Niagara Falls and Niagara County tourism will have its effectiveness evaluated under an agreement reached this week. A Canadian firm will be hired to conduct a “performance audit” of Niagara Tourism & Convention Corp., a key term that got the Niagara Falls City Council to approve…

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County tourism agency sues city over bed tax proceeds

From the Buffalo News: Niagara County’s tourism promotion agency sued the City of Niagara Falls on Tuesday over the city’s refusal to convey proceeds of the city’s tax on hotel and motel bills to the agency. The Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp. filed the suit in State Supreme Court, demanding that a judge order to…

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Niagara Falls, USA, Tourism Gets Bounce From Nik Wallenda’s Latest Walk

From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo (includes video): If you watched Nik Wallenda cross walk across the Little Colorado River Gorge Sunday, you may have seen a commercial about Niagara Falls. It’s estimated that over five million other people saw it too. Niagara USA is the group under the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corporation (NTCC) that…

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WEGO card/pass

Speaking of WEGO, a month or so ago I found a WEGO adult card/pass on the ground. I hadn’t seen one before, so I kept it so I could post it for you all to see.

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WEGO bus service rolls into NOTL

From Niagara This Week: Visitors coming to the area now have a way travel between Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake without access to a car. The Niagara Parks Commission launched a daily summer shuttle service on June 23. The service will travel along the Niagara Parkway from Queenston to Niagara-on-the-Lake. It will be a continuation of the…

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Canada simply gives up competing for the American tourist

This isn’t directly Niagara Falls related, but in the tourism industry we definitely know what the article is talking about. We just don’t get the US visitors we used to. From the Toronto Star: Ottawa no longer wants to waste time and money trying to lure American tourists to the land of moose, mountains and…

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