{"id":16420,"date":"2013-09-24T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16420"},"modified":"2013-09-24T08:16:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T12:16:18","slug":"niagaras-tourism-industry-welcomes-special-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/niagaras-tourism-industry-welcomes-special-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara&#8217;s tourism industry welcomes special visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2013\/09\/18\/niagaras-tourism-industry-welcomes-special-visitors\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They are the people who can sell Niagara Falls to the world.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an opportunity that doesn\u2019t come along often, so when nearly 250 representatives from travel agencies to big businesses come calling, those involved with Niagara\u2019s tourism industry are ready to answer the call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time this event has been hosted here in Niagara Falls, so we are absolutely thrilled,\u201d said Lee Carr, director of sales and marketing at the Skylon Tower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey come from the 10 major tourism markets all over the world. These are people who are trained in their own respective markets on Canadian tourism products from coast-to-coast,\u201d said Carr.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, members of the group spent time at the Horseshoe Falls before stopping for lunch at the Table Rock Restaurant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: They are the people who can sell Niagara Falls to the world. It\u2019s an opportunity that doesn\u2019t come along often, so when nearly 250 representatives from travel agencies to big businesses come calling, those involved with Niagara\u2019s tourism industry are ready to answer the call. \u201cThis is the first time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,49],"tags":[4275,6286,9255,41,9253,358,118,8851,9252,9254],"class_list":["post-16420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-canadian-tourism","tag-director-of-sales-and-marketing","tag-lee-carr","tag-niagara-falls","tag-sales-and-marketing","tag-skylon-tower","tag-tourism-industry","tag-tourism-markets","tag-tourism-products","tag-travel-agencies"],"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\/16420","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\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16421,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions\/16421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}