{"id":17350,"date":"2016-03-11T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17350"},"modified":"2016-03-09T07:56:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:56:43","slug":"wfol-grows-in-illuminations-visitors-in-2015-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/11\/wfol-grows-in-illuminations-visitors-in-2015-16\/","title":{"rendered":"WFOL grows in illuminations, visitors in 2015-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/03\/08\/wfol-grows-in-illuminations-visitors-in-2015-16\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This past season provided a \u201cperfect recipe\u201d for the Winter Festival of Lights to \u201creally shine,\u201d says program director Tina Myers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFabulous\u201d weather, a favourable U.S. currency exchange and the investment of $2 million into lighting, infrastructure and new technology ensured the festival \u201ckicked butt\u201d in 2015-16, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The festival saw a 43 per cent increase in the number of vehicles that drove through Dufferin Islands this past season between Nov. 21 and Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p>That means 61,551 vehicles passed through Dufferin Islands, which saw a large lighting expansion and is the festival\u2019s primary point of interaction with visitors, compared to 43,189 in 2014-15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe broke a record,\u201d said Myers, adding the previous record at Dufferin Islands was 59,000 vehicles in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely happy about that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: This past season provided a \u201cperfect recipe\u201d for the Winter Festival of Lights to \u201creally shine,\u201d says program director Tina Myers. \u201cFabulous\u201d weather, a favourable U.S. currency exchange and the investment of $2 million into lighting, infrastructure and new technology ensured the festival \u201ckicked butt\u201d in 2015-16, she said. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,503],"tags":[4624,865,965,10155,10371,10652,1139,2554,46,44],"class_list":["post-17350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-currency","tag-dufferin-islands","tag-festival","tag-infrastructure","tag-investment","tag-lighing","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-tina-myers","tag-wfol","tag-winter-festival-of-lights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17350","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=17350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}