{"id":17976,"date":"2016-08-19T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17976"},"modified":"2016-08-19T07:05:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:05:50","slug":"small-motels-enjoying-tourism-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/small-motels-enjoying-tourism-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Small motels enjoying tourism boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/08\/18\/smaller-motels-benefitting-from-strong-tourism-season\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s not just the traditional tourism powerhouses in Niagara Falls that are experiencing a banner summer season.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller mom and pop motels along Lundy\u2019s Lane are also reaping the benefits of a strong U.S. dollar and a weaker Canadian loonie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we\u2019re seeing at least a 15 to 20 per cent increase in business,\u201d said Max Patel, general manager of the Westlodge Inn &amp; Suites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s the dollar. Canadians are staying on this side because of the price.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: It\u2019s not just the traditional tourism powerhouses in Niagara Falls that are experiencing a banner summer season. The smaller mom and pop motels along Lundy\u2019s Lane are also reaping the benefits of a strong U.S. dollar and a weaker Canadian loonie. \u201cThis year we\u2019re seeing at least a 15 to&#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":[22,2,49],"tags":[2133,2134,9848,745,267,11128,1450,1139,2268,418,11130,11129],"class_list":["post-17976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-hotels","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-american","tag-canadian","tag-dollar","tag-loonie","tag-lundys-lane","tag-max-patel","tag-motel","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-season","tag-tourism","tag-u-s-summer","tag-westlodge-inn-suites"],"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\/17976","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=17976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17977,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions\/17977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}