Tourists
The Travel Eazy blog has posted about Niagara Falls:
Niagara Falls is a popular tourist site for over a century, and it is the second largest falls on the globe next to Victoria Falls in southern Africa. Niagara Falls attracts some 12 Million tourists to her majestic awesome beauty each year.
It is a place for [...]
From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo:
For two decades it reigned as perhaps Western New York’s premier winter time event. The Niagara Falls, NY Festival of Lights drew millions of tourists in a traditionally drab time of year for the hospitality industry, and once captured the American Bus Association’s coveted designation as the number one event [...]
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From the Niagara Falls Review:
Niagara Falls is eager to roll out the red carpet to hundreds of thousands of Chinese tourists now that Canada is on the list of places their government will let them go.
People working at Niagara Parks Commission attractions are going to learn when someone pretends to wash their hands in front [...]
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From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Niagara Falls spills 750,000 gallons of water per second down a 167-foot drop in a roar that began when glaciers melted 10,000 years ago.
Tourists come by the millions, stare into the white mist, and marvel at one of the wonders of the world. Then they have wonders of their own: What to [...]
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From the Niagara Falls Review:
Niagara-on-the-Lake’s municipal dock on the Niagara River is off limits to jet boats that have left controversy in their wake for years.
The municipality gave Whirlpool Jet Boat Tours an immediate order Friday afternoon to stop using the pier as a pickup point for thousands of tourists who pay for rides on [...]
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CanadianFun.org has a posting with answers to this question/title:
It’s our first vacation alone since we had our daughter 2 1/2 years ago. I want it to be fun and romantic.
I’ve lived in the Niagara area for most of my life and have been on both sides.
The Canadian side caters more to tourists and you get [...]
From the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal:
This year, like so many other years before it, Maid of the Mist Corp. helped mark the unofficial start of spring in Western New York and Southern Ontario by lowering its fleet of boats into the lower Niagara River on Friday.
The company has been preparing for tourism seasons much the [...]
From the Buffalo News:
Paramjit Singh used to get so excited when he got a rare taxi fare from his native India that he would invite the customer to his house in Amherst for a home-cooked meal.
A decade later, Singh now owns an Indian restaurant in the Falls, and there are moments when he feels as [...]
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This is old news, but since it was big enough news to make The New York Times, I’ve linked to it:
Tourist destinations fall in and out of favor — Prague, Ibiza, the Dalmatian coast — but for more than a century, Niagara Falls has held a certain quaint, some would say corny, allure.
One company has [...]
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