{"id":16715,"date":"2014-05-14T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16715"},"modified":"2014-05-09T14:42:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T18:42:27","slug":"tourism-officials-set-sights-on-u-s-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/14\/tourism-officials-set-sights-on-u-s-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism officials set sights on U.S. visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/4504708-tourism-officials-set-sights-on-u-s-visitors\/\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With a sinking loonie, the playing field has tilted slightly toward tourism operators on the Canadian side of the border.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, the dollar was trading a little more than 90 cents (.0902) against the US greenback, and tourism officials in Niagara Falls said they&#8217;re ready to take advantage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since U.S. passport changes came into being, U.S. guests travelling and staying here dropped completely off the board,&#8221; said Wayne Thomson, board chair for Niagara Falls Tourism. &#8220;Niagara Falls tourism has certainly been a hard struggle for the past several years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: With a sinking loonie, the playing field has tilted slightly toward tourism operators on the Canadian side of the border. As of Tuesday, the dollar was trading a little more than 90 cents (.0902) against the US greenback, and tourism officials in Niagara Falls said they&#8217;re ready to take advantage. &#8220;Since&#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":[2,49,39],"tags":[41,180,451,482,436,7379,845],"class_list":["post-16715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","category-niagara-falls-travel","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-tourism","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-tourism-officials","tag-tourism-operators","tag-u-s","tag-wayne-thomson"],"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\/16715","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=16715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}