From Niagara This Week: If Mayor Jim Diodati was to give a grade to the year 2012 in Niagara Falls, it would be a ‘B’. And that would be a good thing. That ‘B’ stands for “blockbuster” and he said there was no shortage of blockbuster events over the course of the year. “There’s no…
From the Niagara Falls Review: It used to be a video store, but “Blockbuster” is now the mantra of the tourism industry in Niagara and the province of Ontario. Get used to it. Blockbuster. Blockbuster. Blockbuster. At some point, the word became the catch phrase for the kind of events Ontario’s tourism industry wants to…
From Niagara This Week: Calling the tourism industry “our General Motors,” Mayor Jim Diodati said the city needs to exploit opportunities to stage “blockbuster events” to further increase the number of visitors coming to Niagara Falls. “People poke fun at it, but (tourism) is our General Motors,” Diodati told and audience of 200 at the…