{"id":11603,"date":"2012-08-15T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11603"},"modified":"2012-08-14T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T17:33:13","slug":"tourisms-not-shrinking-in-the-summer-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/tourisms-not-shrinking-in-the-summer-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism\u2019s not shrinking in the summer heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2012\/08\/13\/tourisms-not-shrinking-in-the-summer-heat\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The heat wave of 2012, which has had Niagara baking in 40\u00b0C heat on a number of days, hasn\u2019t wilted the region\u2019s summer tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel occupancy rates in June for the region were up 7.8 % over the same time last year, according to the Tourism Partnership of Niagara.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to see that increase,\u201d said Robin Garrett, CEO of the non-profit organization that works with tourism partners to promote and market Niagara as a premier destination for business and leisure travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom speaking with our industry partners, I\u2019ve heard July numbers have been consistent with last year, maybe a little bit higher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>August is also expected to be a successful month, Garrett said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The heat wave of 2012, which has had Niagara baking in 40\u00b0C heat on a number of days, hasn\u2019t wilted the region\u2019s summer tourism industry. Hotel occupancy rates in June for the region were up 7.8 % over the same time last year, according to the Tourism Partnership of Niagara&#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":[4763,4645,7873,7875,41,1139,5644,7874,118,2690,5647,3031],"class_list":["post-11603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-ceo","tag-heat-wave","tag-hotel-occupancy-rates","tag-leisure-travel","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-robin-garrett","tag-summer-tourism","tag-tourism-industry","tag-tourism-partners","tag-tourism-partnership","tag-tourism-partnership-of-niagara"],"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\/11603","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=11603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}