{"id":18122,"date":"2016-11-29T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18122"},"modified":"2016-11-26T10:13:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T15:13:14","slug":"16-billion-ontario-tourism-gap-requires-a-dedicated-government-strategy-greater-niagara-chamber-of-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/16-billion-ontario-tourism-gap-requires-a-dedicated-government-strategy-greater-niagara-chamber-of-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"$16 Billion Ontario Tourism Gap Requires a Dedicated Government Strategy \u2013 Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/niagaraatlarge.com\/2016\/11\/17\/16-billion-ontario-tourism-gap-requires-a-dedicated-government-strategy-greater-niagara-chamber-of-commerce\/\">Niagara at Large<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This Thursday, November 17th, the Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce (GNCC) in partnership with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) has released new data that reveals a significant tourism opportunity gap when compared to international growth rates.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organization\u2019s report, Closing the Tourism Gap: Creating a Long-Term Advantage for Ontario, Ontario has foregone nearly $16 billion in visitor spending between 2006 and 2012 by not keeping up with global growth trends. While this year has been a strong year for tourism in Ontario, it is important that this recent growth is translated into long-term, sustainable gains in tourism visitation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara at Large: This Thursday, November 17th, the Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce (GNCC) in partnership with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) has released new data that reveals a significant tourism opportunity gap when compared to international growth rates. According to the organization\u2019s report, Closing the Tourism Gap: Creating a Long-Term Advantage for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,601,49],"tags":[11343,11340,8819,11344,11147,11342,652,11341,11345,418,10482],"class_list":["post-18122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-closing-the-tourism-gap","tag-gncc","tag-greater-niagara-chamber-of-commerce","tag-growth","tag-niagara-at-large","tag-occ","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-chamber-of-commerce","tag-strong","tag-tourism","tag-visitation"],"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\/18122","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=18122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18123,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122\/revisions\/18123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}