{"id":1598,"date":"2007-05-18T08:24:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T12:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/18\/maid-of-the-mist-president-sets-sight-on-sales\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T08:24:43","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T12:24:43","slug":"maid-of-the-mist-president-sets-sight-on-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/maid-of-the-mist-president-sets-sight-on-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Maid of the Mist president sets sight on sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?739\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first voyage to the Horseshoe Falls for the Maid of the Mist is typically a sure sign spring has arrived. It also signals the city will soon be flooded with tourists once again, until at least Labour Day weekend in September.<\/p>\n<p>At least that&#8217;s the hope as the Maid of the Mist begins its 161st season after a tough year in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are starting the 2007 season with optimism but also apprehension,&#8221; said Emil Mende, general manager of marine operations for the Maid of the Mist. &#8220;Our numbers were slightly down last year. We are hoping that will not happen again this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Maid of the Mist officially began its tours Wednesday, about four weeks later than usual because there was a still a lot of ice in the eastern end of Lake Erie until only a few weeks ago. Still, the launch is in line with an average season, which will end around Thanksgiving weekend in October.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: The first voyage to the Horseshoe Falls for the Maid of the Mist is typically a sure sign spring has arrived. It also signals the city will soon be flooded with tourists once again, until at least Labour Day weekend in September. At least that&#8217;s the hope as the Maid of&#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-1598","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\/1598","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=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}