From Niagara This Week: Two new faces at Niagara Falls Tourism have been charged with helping the organization implement a plan which will focus on drawing visitors from the world’s emerging markets. Jennifer McGregor and Anastasia Belashov have been brought on board with NFT to help sales initiatives in such places as China, India, Brazil,…
Autumn is well on its way, and winter is almost here. We’ve had a few snow flakes fall, but they haven’t stayed. Most of the leaves are off the trees now, but a couple of weeks ago I took a set of pictures of the autumn leaves along Queen Victoria Park. As is always the…
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…
This weekend and next represent the unofficial start of summer in Niagara Falls. The Victoria Day (in Canada) / Memorial Day (in US) weekends are either on the same weekend or one week apart. We’re almost guaranteed to have decent weather, and so even though summer is still officially a month away, it is actually…
Someone with a Blogger-hosted blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls (including lots of pictures): After lunch, we proceeded to a place called the Clifton Hill, and it made me feel like a kid all over again!
From Niagara This Week: The 17th annual Niagara Falls Sports Wall of Fame induction ceremony is scheduled to take place Sun., January 15 at 2:00 p.m. at the Niagara Falls Memorial Arena. This year’s inductees include: 1900-1970 Era: … Harry Oakes – Benefactor I believe this is the original Sir Harry Oakes. He is the…
@steveblaney1 Cool! I'll stop by next week and take a picture of the new location. Thanks for letting us know Steve in reply to steveblaney1 # I'm walking through Queen Victoria Park and someone just nodded at me and said my name. I have no idea who it was 🙁 # The Zimmerman Fountain is…
From the Buffalo News: A multimillion-dollar plan to convert a 1960s Niagara Falls hotel into upscale lodging has received $1.5 million from the USA Niagara Development Corp. The project to rehabilitate the 135,000-square-foot Days Inn Hotel on Main Street into a Courtyard by Marriott will cost $10.9 million. NFNY Hotel Managament owns the property, which…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Outdoor skating near the brink of Niagara Falls could become an “iconic” winter attraction the way it has in New York City’s Central Park and Rockefeller Center, says Winter Festival of Lights manager Dino Fazio. The festival is firming up arrangements for the Rink at the Brink, an outdoor skating…
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