{"id":18340,"date":"2016-12-14T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18340"},"modified":"2016-12-14T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T12:45:28","slug":"time-for-province-to-tackle-dmf-mess-in-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/time-for-province-to-tackle-dmf-mess-in-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for province to tackle DMF mess in Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/12\/13\/time-for-province-to-address-dmf-mess-in-falls\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last spring, my cohort Ray Spiteri and I did a three-part series on the Destination Marketing Fee, the notorious tourism fee several Niagara Falls hotels and restaurants have been charging since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the fee &#8211; up to 10 per cent in some places &#8211; has angered countless tourists. And with good reason: There still isn\u2019t accountability for it. Businesses collect the money, but do not remit it to a proper tourism agency or association. We are supposed to take their word for it that it goes toward tourism-related projects.<\/p>\n<p>You can see why this is a problem. And why it hurts the industry as a whole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Last spring, my cohort Ray Spiteri and I did a three-part series on the Destination Marketing Fee, the notorious tourism fee several Niagara Falls hotels and restaurants have been charging since 2004. In recent years, the fee &#8211; up to 10 per cent in some places &#8211; has angered countless&#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":[11529,252,184,9333,6224,10405,11061,2049,11528,64,4681],"class_list":["post-18340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-accountability","tag-destination-marketing-fee","tag-dmf","tag-industry","tag-john-law","tag-niagara-falls-hotels","tag-problem","tag-province","tag-ray-spiteri","tag-restaurants","tag-tourism-agency"],"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\/18340","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=18340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18341,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340\/revisions\/18341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}