{"id":17508,"date":"2016-06-08T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17508"},"modified":"2016-06-08T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T19:21:50","slug":"falls-should-definitely-look-at-hotel-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/08\/falls-should-definitely-look-at-hotel-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls should &#8216;definitely&#8217; look at hotel tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/06\/06\/falls-should-definitely-look-at-hotel-tax\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls should consider levying a new tax on hotel rooms to fund tourism initiatives and take the burden of local ratepayers, says Mayor Jim Diodati.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNiagara Falls, N.Y. charges a bed tax in their hotels, and that\u2019s how they fund their tourism,\u201d said Diodati. \u201cNiagara Falls (Ont.) should definitely have a look at that \u2014 if it\u2019s allowed, if it\u2019s to be used to market the destination and fund Niagara Falls Tourism, which is the city\u2019s marketing agency for tourism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Documents obtained exclusively by the Toronto Sun show city officials in Toronto have been working for months to get permission from the Ontario government to levy new local taxes, and Premier Kathleen Wynne has already promised Toronto Mayor John Tory \u2014 should council approve \u2014 a new tax on hotel rooms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls should consider levying a new tax on hotel rooms to fund tourism initiatives and take the burden of local ratepayers, says Mayor Jim Diodati. \u201cNiagara Falls, N.Y. charges a bed tax in their hotels, and that\u2019s how they fund their tourism,\u201d said Diodati. \u201cNiagara Falls (Ont.) should definitely&#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":[2,601,49],"tags":[10888,4008,603,787,9214,10890,3317,1139,180,2611,10889,1656,1016,418],"class_list":["post-17508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-bed-tax","tag-funding","tag-jim-diodati","tag-john-tory","tag-kathleen-wynne","tag-local-tax","tag-mayor","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-falls-tourism","tag-premier","tag-room-tax","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-sun","tag-tourism"],"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\/17508","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=17508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}