Tough act to swallow

From the Niagara Falls Review: Think your line of work got hurt in the recession? Try sword swallowing. “The last few years have been tough, economically. People aren’t going to pay $1,000 to have a sword swallower at their kids’ birthdays,” said Vanessa Neil, who shocked a Niagara Falls crowd Saturday when she downed a…

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See the sword — and then swallow it

From the Niagara Falls Review: It’s not a holiday yet, but sword swallowers have made today their own. World Sword Swallowers Day will see performers send steel down the hatch at more than a dozen Ripley’s Believe It or Not museums throughout the world, including Clifton Hill. Toronto’s Vanessa Neil does the deed at 2:27…

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‘Extremely bleak’ conditions still dog Niagara’s tourism industry

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…

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“What makes a haunted house?”

Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to a Haunted House on Clifton Hill: …I think there are 4 major haunted houses on Clifton Hill: The Fear Factory, Dracula’s Castle, Frankenstein’s…um, castle (?), and another one that has just as terrifying a name and plays the scary music from Halloween onto the…

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“We’re Legal in Niagara Falls!”

I guess this is the sort of thing that CNN iReport is looking for… …So…the day after our wedding, we hopped in the car and headed to Niagara Falls! This warm and welcoming city provided much fun and tourism for the first couple days of our honeymoon, and on the third day we made a…

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Canadian Niagara Hotels Inc. to Build New Hotel Complex Decision brings new jobs, development and tourists to Niagara Falls

From a PRWeb press release: Today brings great news for the city of Niagara Falls and the Falls Avenue Entertainment Complex. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) has renewed the lease of Casino Niagara at its current location on Falls Avenue. The lease extension is for an additional 15 years, showing the Provincial Government’s…

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