{"id":1741,"date":"2007-06-26T10:48:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/26\/signs-say-passport-plan-deters-visitors-to-buffalo-niagara\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T10:48:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T14:48:56","slug":"signs-say-passport-plan-deters-visitors-to-buffalo-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/signs-say-passport-plan-deters-visitors-to-buffalo-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs say passport plan deters visitors to Buffalo Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?810\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Debate over a passport mandate scheduled to take effect next year has confused visitors to the Buffalo Niagara region, and local leaders say this year\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s tourist season has already been hurt by the new identification requirements.<\/p>\n<p>While some believe the mandate to carry a passport to cross into the United States from Canada could keep more American tourists on the U.S. side in the short term, they worry it could ultimately hurt the region as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5&#8221;There\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s confusion on a daily basis, and it has been that way and it drives you crazy,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d said John Percy, president and CEO of Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5&#8221;I think it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s going to affect the destination overall, just because I don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t think people sometimes realize there\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a Niagara Falls, N.Y., and a Niagara Falls, Canada. They\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ll choose another vacation destination that doesn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t have a passport issue.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: Debate over a passport mandate scheduled to take effect next year has confused visitors to the Buffalo Niagara region, and local leaders say this year\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s tourist season has already been hurt by the new identification requirements. While some believe the mandate to carry a passport to cross into the United States&#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-1741","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\/1741","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=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}