{"id":1287,"date":"2007-02-15T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/15\/tourism-industry-bracing-for-a-catastrophic-hit\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T20:31:35","slug":"tourism-industry-bracing-for-a-catastrophic-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/15\/tourism-industry-bracing-for-a-catastrophic-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism industry bracing for a &#8216;catastrophic&#8217; hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?584\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bob Benson doesn&#8217;t have a staff of full-time employees. Most of the folks who make the run to Pearson, Hamilton or Buffalo-Niagara International airports to drop off or pick up travellers for Niagara Airbus are retired and work a few hours a week to supplement their pensions.<\/p>\n<p>But the general manager of operations said like Niagara&#8217;s other tourism industry insiders, he&#8217;s concerned about the effect cancelling the visitor rebate program will have on business.<\/p>\n<p>Very definitely, it does affect our industry. Taxis as well, said Benson. If people aren&#8217;t coming, it affects us. We don&#8217;t have full-time people to lay off, but certainly hours could be cut.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Bob Benson doesn&#8217;t have a staff of full-time employees. Most of the folks who make the run to Pearson, Hamilton or Buffalo-Niagara International airports to drop off or pick up travellers for Niagara Airbus are retired and work a few hours a week to supplement their pensions. But the general&#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_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-1287","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\/1287","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=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}