{"id":10911,"date":"2012-03-28T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10911"},"modified":"2012-03-28T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T18:43:16","slug":"tourism-our-general-motors-falls-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/28\/tourism-our-general-motors-falls-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism \u2018our General Motors\u2019: Falls mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news\/news\/article\/1324918\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Calling the tourism industry \u201cour General Motors,\u201d Mayor Jim Diodati said the city needs to exploit opportunities to stage \u201cblockbuster events\u201d to further increase the number of visitors coming to Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople poke fun at it, but (tourism) is our General Motors,\u201d Diodati told and audience of 200 at the Marriott Gateway on the Falls Hotel Monday. Diodati was delivering his annual State of the City address to an audience of local business people. \u201cWe need to see what we can do to strengthen it into a year round business.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: Calling the tourism industry \u201cour General Motors,\u201d Mayor Jim Diodati said the city needs to exploit opportunities to stage \u201cblockbuster events\u201d to further increase the number of visitors coming to Niagara Falls. \u201cPeople poke fun at it, but (tourism) is our General Motors,\u201d Diodati told and audience of 200 at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[2,49],"tags":[7224,7226,7225,603,115,7228,3317,41,451,7227,118,3346],"class_list":["post-10911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-blockbuster","tag-blockbuster-events","tag-general-motors","tag-jim-diodati","tag-marriott","tag-marriott-gateway-on-the-falls-hotel","tag-mayor","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-state-of-the-city","tag-tourism-industry","tag-visitors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911","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=10911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10912,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions\/10912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}