Binational Tourism Alliance
From Niagara This Week:
The double whammy of the brutal recession and new identification rules at the border have devastated cross-border travel that’s a backbone of Niagara’s crucial tourism sector, gutting thousands of jobs here, figures from the Binational Tourism Alliance show.
In an attempt to try to reverse the disturbing trend, the alliance is pushing local, [...]
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From UPI.com:
The number of people traveling between the United States and Canada dropped from May to June, a tourism official said Sunday in Niagara Falls, Ont.
This is the first time in memory the number of tourists declined in the border region between Western New York and Canada, said Arlene White, executive director of the Binational [...]
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From Hotel Online:
An American diplomat reassured regional tourism officials Thursday that tighter border-crossing requirements due to take effect June 1 will not impede the flow of travelers and their dollars to and from Canada.
Not everyone attending the fourth annual Binational Tourism Alliance was convinced. Some fretted that a looming flu pandemic, combined with heightened border [...]
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From the Niagara Falls Review:
When ideas are shared, the result is always greater than the sum of the parts.
That’s the message Arlene White hopes participants at the upcoming Binational Tourism Summit will take away from the table.
“This isn’t ’same old, same old’ in terms of conferences,” said White, executive director of the Binational Tourism Alliance. [...]
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