{"id":11319,"date":"2012-07-09T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11319"},"modified":"2012-07-05T21:24:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T01:24:18","slug":"wallenda-impact-on-niagara-falls-exceeds-3-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/wallenda-impact-on-niagara-falls-exceeds-3-3-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallenda Impact on Niagara Falls Exceeds $3.3 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/news\/article\/173173\/1\/Wallenda-Impact-on-Niagara-Falls-Exceeds-33-Million\">WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo<\/a> (includes video):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a survey commissioned by the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corporation, the economic impact of Nik Wallenda&#8217;s walk across Niagara Falls was immense.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara University&#8217;s Hospitality Training and Research Center interviewed close to 600 people throughout Prospect Park and Old Falls Street.<\/p>\n<p>In the nine hours leading up to the walk, they asked about everything from how much money visitors spent, to how long they planned to stay. The total economic impact was $3.3 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo (includes video): According to a survey commissioned by the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corporation, the economic impact of Nik Wallenda&#8217;s walk across Niagara Falls was immense. Niagara University&#8217;s Hospitality Training and Research Center interviewed close to 600 people throughout Prospect Park and Old Falls Street. In the nine hours&#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":[74,26,3,54,2,49],"tags":[7660,41,83,1838,3483,5673,7662,7661,2812],"class_list":["post-11319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-hospitality-training-and-research-center","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-tourism","tag-niagara-tourism-and-convention-corporation","tag-niagara-university","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-old-falls-st","tag-prospect-park","tag-wgrz-channel-2"],"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\/11319","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=11319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11346,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11319\/revisions\/11346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}