{"id":1669,"date":"2007-06-08T08:32:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T12:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/08\/soaring-loonie-may-hurt-tourism\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T08:32:46","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T12:32:46","slug":"soaring-loonie-may-hurt-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/soaring-loonie-may-hurt-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaring loonie may hurt tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?770\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A soaring loonie will mean less dollars in the pockets of the city&#8217;s tourism industry stakeholders, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m shaken,&#8221; said Anna Pierce, executive director of Niagara Falls Tourism. &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s worried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian dollar closed at 94.07 cents (U.S.) Tuesday, down 0.41 cents from Monday&#8217;s close, and a step away from the 30-year highs of the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t plan for this. We can see the dollar creeping up but we have no way of knowing something like this is going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pierce said since the SARS crisis, the organization has focused on attracting more Canadian travellers to the city. But with Canadians getting a better bang for their buck across the border, Pierce fears her target market will head straight to the bridge. &#8220;(The low dollar) was always a competitive advantage,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Now we have to get really creative. We have to work harder. We have to make up that difference.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A soaring loonie will mean less dollars in the pockets of the city&#8217;s tourism industry stakeholders, experts say. &#8220;I&#8217;m shaken,&#8221; said Anna Pierce, executive director of Niagara Falls Tourism. &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s worried.&#8221; The Canadian dollar closed at 94.07 cents (U.S.) Tuesday, down 0.41 cents from Monday&#8217;s close, and a step away&#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-1669","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\/1669","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=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}