Poker tourney returns to Fallsview

    From the Niagara Falls Review: Texas Hold’em competitors are priming their poker faces as they battle to see who will qualify for the upcoming North American Poker Championship at the Fallsview Casino Resort. Now in its third year, the event promises big prize purses, with the jackpot estimated at just over $1 million. “Canada is…

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      Niagara Falls Web Sites: Falls.com

      The web site I highlight this week is Falls.com. This is the site run by Niagara Clifton Group. They operate a good portion of the operations on the north side of Clifton Hill. The site is pretty basic with only minimal information about the operations. Each page that they do have is almost like an…

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      Niagara Square to close

      I know this isn’t directly related to tourism, it is still something that may affect tourists coming to the area. From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Square will close May 1 as part of plan to re-invent the beleaguered north end shopping centre. RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust Company, which owns an interest in the…

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      Two perspectives on casino union vote – ART FRANK

      From the Niagara Falls Review: Art Frank is president of Niagara Casinos. Since 1998, the CAW has attempted unsuccessfully to become the trade union representing the associates at Niagara Casinos on four separate occasions. The fifth such attempt will take place Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at polling stations at Fallsview Casino and As an organization,…

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      The mall with it all in Canada

      This is an article from a site in Australia about the West Edmonton Mall. I know it isn’t Niagara Falls-related, but I just had to share the opening paragraph: Vancouver has its picturesque bays, Montreal its French flair and Toronto is home to wondrous Niagara Falls. Mention Edmonton and the thing that usually pops to…

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        Niagara Falls Tourism new web site

        For the longest time the Niagara Falls Tourism bureau did NOT had their own web site. If you visited NiagaraFallsTourism.com you’d be redirected to DiscoverNiagara.com. Well, today a new version of the site went live. There aren’t a whole lot of details about attractions, just the facts. But since it is an independent organization, you…

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        Twitter updates for 2010-04-27

        @adamwhite It was fun. I look forward to seeing how goofy I look on video 🙂 in reply to adamwhite # RT @WinterFestival: We're thinking about extending the Winter Festival of Lights to Jan. 31, 2011 from Jan. 3 http://bit.ly/9khrp5 #

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        Design A Cool T-Shirt – Get Your Tickets For This Weekend’s Concert!

        Last Thursday I received the latest newsletter from Safari Niagara (formerly Zooz). To subscribe to the “The Wild Times”, the Safari Niagara newsletter, click on the subscribe link at the top of any page.

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        QHR Report – Clifton Hill Niagara Falls Canada

        FirstPost.com is a web site based in India. It seems to be primarily a news site, but it also has information on places and things of interest to their readers. Niagara Falls is one of those things. They recently posted a video called the QHR Report. It is a 9-minute video of a couple of…

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