Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda’s plan to conquer Niagara Falls

From the Toronto Star: Wallenda can’t afford to make a similar stumble this Friday during his highest-profile act yet: walking 550 metres across Niagara Falls, on a wire 60 metres above the gorge. “This is unique because it’s the longest unsupported or unstabilized cable that anyone’s put up in the history of wire-walking,” Wallenda says….

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    Great Wolf ‘smashes’ open

    From Buffalo Business First: The opening of the first phase of the Great Wolf Lodge project in Niagara Falls was both a smash and a splash. Literally. The $135 million project – touted as the largest tourism destination project currently underway in Canada – made its official debut Thursday afternoon. The first phase includes a…

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    Media Advisory – Minister Nicholson to Attend Annual Winter Festival of Lights in Niagara Falls

    From a CNW Group press release seen on Yahoo! Canada Finance: The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., Minister of National Defence and Member of Parliament for Niagara Falls, will speak at the 31st Annual Winter Festival of Lights opening festivities to honour Canada’s Veterans of the Korean War and highlight their contributions and sacrifices.

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      Temperatures, Not Hotels, Likely Alter Niagara Falls’ Mist

      From Newswise.com: When the Niagara Parks Commission posed that question back in 2004, the concern was that high-rise hotels on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls were contributing to the creation of more mist, obscuring the very view that millions of tourists flock there every year to see. The suspicion was that new high-rise buildings…

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        Talking to Americans about coming here

        From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls Tourism was on a mission when it travelled to New York City the week before Christmas: To sell Niagara Falls as a year-round vacation place. The Review went along for the ride. Here’s the first of five parts. Part 2 runs Friday. Four-year-old Sophia Griffo sits at the…

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        Study shows economic activity of Niagara’s Winter Festival of Lights is more than 40 times its price tag

        From a press release seen on the Winter Festival of Lights web site: A detailed study of the 2009 Winter Festival of Lights found that the 59-day Festival generated $57.3 million in economic benefits for the region, more than 40 times the event’s fiscal year expenditures of $1.3 million. In its 42-page report, Toronto-based research…

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