{"id":1460,"date":"2007-04-13T09:06:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T13:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/04\/13\/tourism-alliance-invests-in-nexus\/"},"modified":"2007-04-13T09:06:47","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T13:06:47","slug":"tourism-alliance-invests-in-nexus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/tourism-alliance-invests-in-nexus\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Alliance invests in Nexus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?687\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Binational Tourism Alliance is investing in the Nexus program to provide a boost for the region&#8217;s struggling tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>Nexus, which is designed to speed the border clearance process for low-risk, pre-approved travellers into Canada and the U.S., allows carriers to zip past long lines waiting to clear customs on either side of the border.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, it isn&#8217;t very popular, said Arlene White, BTA&#8217;s executive director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re suggesting (to stakeholders) that while we have time, we should make the Nexus program known to more travellers,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been at the Peace Bridge since 2002 and not a lot of people we talk to know about it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: The Binational Tourism Alliance is investing in the Nexus program to provide a boost for the region&#8217;s struggling tourism industry. Nexus, which is designed to speed the border clearance process for low-risk, pre-approved travellers into Canada and the U.S., allows carriers to zip past long lines waiting to clear customs on&#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-1460","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\/1460","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=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}