{"id":10536,"date":"2012-01-10T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10536"},"modified":"2012-01-09T11:04:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:04:52","slug":"parks-commission-needs-more-time-for-boat-tour-lease-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/parks-commission-needs-more-time-for-boat-tour-lease-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks Commission needs more time for boat tour lease decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3426557\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It has had more than 11 months to pick a winner, but the Niagara Parks Commission says its evaluation team needs more time.<\/p>\n<p>More than a year and a half after a long-term operator for boat tours at the base of the Horseshoe Falls was originally supposed to be found, NPC officials said Thursday the team making the decision needs another &#8220;five or six weeks,&#8221; before announcing a winning bidder.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will be worth a minimum of $5.5 million per year, not including the commission&#8217;s share of annual revenue from ticket and souvenir sales.<\/p>\n<p>Chairwoman Janice Thomson had said she expected to announce who would be awarded a 25-year lease to operate boat tours near the falls by the end of 2011, but she told The Niagara Falls Review the complex process to select a winner is still underway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: It has had more than 11 months to pick a winner, but the Niagara Parks Commission says its evaluation team needs more time. More than a year and a half after a long-term operator for boat tours at the base of the Horseshoe Falls was originally supposed to be found,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,2,49],"tags":[6777,2871,2575,2138,5175,5057,142,3827,41,99,255,6778,6776],"class_list":["post-10536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-annual-revenue","tag-boat-tour","tag-boat-tours","tag-deal","tag-decision","tag-evaluation","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-janice-thomson","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-npc","tag-process","tag-souvenir-sales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10574,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}