{"id":1162,"date":"2006-12-07T10:36:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T15:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/07\/passport-plan-has-drastic-effect-locally\/"},"modified":"2006-12-07T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T15:36:47","slug":"passport-plan-has-drastic-effect-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/passport-plan-has-drastic-effect-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport plan has &#8216;drastic&#8217; effect locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?525\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. ambassador to Canada says the tourism industry won&#8217;t suffer under a new American law requiring travellers to show passports before entering the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism officials here, though, beg to differ.<\/p>\n<p>The way Arlene White sees it, the more stringent border-identification policy &#8211; the first phase is set to take effect early next year &#8211; is already taking a toll on border-town economies. &#8220;This issue has already had a drastic effect on cross-border tourism. Many Canadian and American travellers already think they need a passport to cross the border, which is not true,&#8221; said the executive director of the Binational Tourism Alliance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The U.S. ambassador to Canada says the tourism industry won&#8217;t suffer under a new American law requiring travellers to show passports before entering the U.S. Tourism officials here, though, beg to differ. The way Arlene White sees it, the more stringent border-identification policy &#8211; the first phase is set to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/1162","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}