{"id":11526,"date":"2012-08-03T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11526"},"modified":"2012-08-03T12:27:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T16:27:26","slug":"blockbuster-the-name-of-the-tourism-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/blockbuster-the-name-of-the-tourism-game\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blockbuster\u2019 the name of the tourism game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2012\/07\/17\/blockbuster-the-name-of-the-tourism-game\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It used to be a video store, but \u201cBlockbuster\u201d is now the mantra of the tourism industry in Niagara and the province of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Get used to it.<\/p>\n<p>Blockbuster. Blockbuster. Blockbuster.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, the word became the catch phrase for the kind of events Ontario\u2019s tourism industry wants to hang its hat on.<\/p>\n<p>It crept into the lexicon in 2010 when Celebrate Ontario, a provincially funded agency, created a program to support \u201cblockbuster events\u201d or one-time events \u201cof a size and scope sufficient to draw visitors to Ontario\u2019s communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the past two years, \u201cblockbuster\u201d is the phrase everyone from Ontario Tourism Minister Michael Chan to Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati and Niagara Parks Commission chairwoman Janice Thomson has borrowed to set their sights on hosting larger-than-life events.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by some events this year and others that are on the calendar, both Niagara and Queen\u2019s Park are on the same page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: It used to be a video store, but \u201cBlockbuster\u201d is now the mantra of the tourism industry in Niagara and the province of Ontario. Get used to it. Blockbuster. Blockbuster. Blockbuster. At some point, the word became the catch phrase for the kind of events Ontario\u2019s tourism industry wants to&#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":[2,49],"tags":[7224,7823,3827,603,7824,3070,41,99,1100,2149,118,468],"class_list":["post-11526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-blockbuster","tag-catch-phrase","tag-janice-thomson","tag-jim-diodati","tag-mantra","tag-michael-chan","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-ontario-tourism","tag-province-of-ontario","tag-tourism-industry","tag-tourism-minister"],"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\/11526","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=11526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}