{"id":1259,"date":"2007-02-05T08:49:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T13:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/05\/canada-rejects-twinning-proposal\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T08:49:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T13:49:35","slug":"canada-rejects-twinning-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/05\/canada-rejects-twinning-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada rejects twinning proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?575\">ZWNews.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canada has rejected a proposal by Zimbabwe to twin Niagara Falls and the Victoria Falls in a marketing strategy President Robert Mugabe\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s government hoped would help attract more western tourists to his country. Late last year, the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA)\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s chief executive officer, Karikoga Kaseke announced that his organisation would take advantage of a tourism road show into Canada this year to negotiate a deal to have the marketing departments of the two world wonders cross-promote them to their visitors. But in a recent interview with MAP Feature Service, Anna Pierce, the manager of Niagara Tourism, an arm of the Ontario Province\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s tourism department, said the Canadian authority would not entertain the idea because of Zimbabwe\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s deplorable human rights record and its meddling in matters of commerce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ZWNews.com: Canada has rejected a proposal by Zimbabwe to twin Niagara Falls and the Victoria Falls in a marketing strategy President Robert Mugabe\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s government hoped would help attract more western tourists to his country. Late last year, the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA)\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s chief executive officer, Karikoga Kaseke announced that his organisation would take advantage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/1259","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=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}