How Niagara Falls earned the title of Honeymoon Capital

From the Niagara Falls Review: With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, it’s an appropriate time to recall Niagara Falls’ lengthy and prominent role in the world of love and romance — a role especially renowned due to the city’s fame as a honeymoon destination. The tradition of newlyweds coming to Niagara began, it appears, in the…

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Seven plans offered for Falls site

From the Buffalo News: The city whose reputation as a honeymoon capital is often overshadowed by its reputation for urban decay is poised to get its first major downtown development — outside of the Seneca Niagara Casino — in some 30 years. City and state officials have confirmed that seven developers submitted proposals for a…

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Niagara Falls draws Indian tourists and businesses

From WBEZ.org: Niagara Falls, like most Rust Belt cities, has fallen on hard times. Even its tourist attraction, which once made it America’s honeymoon capital, has not saved it from economic woes. But there seems to be hope in Niagara Falls, thanks to a rising current of East Indian tourists. East Indians are visiting the…

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Ontario tourism minister didn’t force people-mover deal on Parks Commission: Niagara Falls MPP

From Bullet News Niagara: A pending deal between the City of Niagara Falls and the Niagara Parks Commission to create a new people-mover bus system to service the millions of visitors to the Honeymoon Capital each year was no shotgun wedding. While Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor acknowledges he and Ontario Tourism Minister Michael Chan…

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Don’t read too much into this ‘royal snub’

From the Niagara Falls Review: Was last week’s Royal Snub really a wake-up call for Niagara Falls? Or is there an easier explanation for why Prince William and Kate Middleton passed over the Honeymoon Capital on what will be their first international tour after their April 29 royal wedding? You could sense the disappointment in…

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William and Kate take a pass on coming to Niagara

From the Niagara Falls Review: Wills and Kate won’t do Niagara? Pity. The future king of Canada and his new bride appear to be passing over Niagara on their summer tour of Canada. When Prince William and Catherine Middleton come to Canada in June, their itinerary will include Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Prince Edward Island,…

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Will & Kate at Niagara Falls?

From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: Niagara Falls is Western New York and southern Ontario’s natural tourist attraction. But the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario has its mind set on two tourists in particular; England’s future King and Queen, Prince William and his bride-to-be, Kate Middleton. After their spring wedding they’re planning a trip to…

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William and Kate welcome in the Falls

From the Niagara Falls Review: The Honeymoon Capital wants to roll out the red carpet for Prince William and Kate Middleton after they tie the knot in April. Niagara Falls city hall plans to send a follow-up invitation to one it sent to the future king in December now that it appears certain the newlyweds…

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Tourism looking up

(yeah, I know I’m a few days late with this one…) From the Niagara Falls Review: The Honeymoon Capital is having a better tourism season this year than last, despite the continuing difficulties convincing Americans to take their holidays north of the border, says the president of Niagara Falls Tourism. “We’re holding our own,” said…

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