Starting this morning I’ll be posting some articles that I’ve had bookmarked. Some are only a few days old, some are several weeks old. As I always say, they may be old, but they are still Niagara Falls related, so I’m going to post them anyway. And besides… some of you may not have seen…
The biggest mall in the Niagara Region is The Pen Centre, located in St. Catharines. This weekend (Saturday and Sunday) they are having a Niagara Tourism Expo. There are many of the regional entertainment destinations that have tables and/or displays setup. HOCO was there promoting their Clifton Hill attractions (they were even giving away free…
From the Welland Tribune: There was plenty to cheer about in Niagara Falls on the weekend – not only inside the Scotiabank Convention Centre during the Canadian National Cheer & Dance Championships – but across the city where restaurants and hotels were booked to capacity. “We had over 86 athletes with our five teams and…
As has been discussed many times, the front desk of the Quality Inn Clifton Hill has been torn down to make room for a Ferris wheel. The Comfort Inn Clifton Hill now has a common front desk for the two hotels. I assume that once all the changes are complete, permanent signs will be placed,…
From Niagara This Week: The demise of Cirque Niagara’s Avaia may have more to do with a flawed business plan than with succumbing to some of the challenges in the new tourism landscape, says the chair of Niagara Falls Tourism. It’s not expected that other major attractions will be closing up, said Wayne Thomson, chair…
From the Buffalo News: It took Kenn Morgan more than six months to capture just the right shot of Niagara Falls State Park on film. Morgan, a Buffalo resident, and seven other still-film camera buffs set out in the fall to find unique images of the country’s oldest state park. “The idea when we started…
From the Niagara Falls Review: One exhibitor booth in particular at last week’s Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference caught the attention of Mayor Jim Diodati. “One of the booths this year that I’ve never seen before was an Airbnb booth. We (Diodati and the city’s chief administrative officer Ken Todd) spent a lot of…
From Niagara This Week: City council wants Prince William and his bride-to-be Kate Middleton to make Niagara Falls a top choice on their upcoming trip to Canada. The city issued a preliminary invitation to the couple in late 2010, but talk of a summer honeymoon across the pond has council buzzing about the chance of…
From the Niagara Falls Review: It looks like any bid to get Bob Gale a second term on the Niagara Parks Commisison is almost out of gas. Niagara’s own oil baron was sidelined from the government agency in February, when his three-year term expired. Now, after Friday’s reaffirmation by the commission of its 2008 decision…
