{"id":1796,"date":"2007-07-11T11:38:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T15:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/11\/opinions-differ-on-how-to-sex-up-niagara-to-lure-visitors\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T15:38:51","slug":"opinions-differ-on-how-to-sex-up-niagara-to-lure-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/11\/opinions-differ-on-how-to-sex-up-niagara-to-lure-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinions differ on how to sex up Niagara to lure visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?845\">St. Catharines Standard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s tourism appeal lies in its chameleon way of attracting everyone from families visiting Niagara Falls to upper income wine travellers, says a Niagara College tourism expert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What makes us sexy is the natural environment we have to offer and how we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve used it,&#8221; says David Veres, the college\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s dean of hospitality and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>What Niagara needs is a way of better selling its assets, he said.<\/p>\n<p>That would help local tourism providers weather what\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s being called this summer\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s perfect tourism storm \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a skyrocketing Canadian dollar, escalating gas prices, and confusion at the border that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s keeping many American daytrippers stateside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve survived 9-11, SARS. The tourism industry doesn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t go away, as long as it continues to stay the course and develop quality experiences for tourists.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the St. Catharines Standard: Niagara\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s tourism appeal lies in its chameleon way of attracting everyone from families visiting Niagara Falls to upper income wine travellers, says a Niagara College tourism expert. &#8220;What makes us sexy is the natural environment we have to offer and how we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve used it,&#8221; says David Veres, the college\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s dean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","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\/1796","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=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}