{"id":19605,"date":"2017-05-02T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=19605"},"modified":"2017-04-29T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T15:19:54","slug":"does-hotel-tax-mean-end-of-niagara-falls-dmf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/02\/does-hotel-tax-mean-end-of-niagara-falls-dmf\/","title":{"rendered":"Does hotel tax mean end of Niagara Falls DMF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/04\/28\/does-hotel-tax-mean-end-of-niagara-falls-dmf\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will a new hotel tax the province has granted municipalities power to impose replace the notorious Destination Marketing Fee in Niagara Falls?<\/p>\n<p>There were lots of guesses after Thursday&#8217;s provincial budget, but not much clarification. Even Mayor Jim Diodati is unsure just what the new tax is, and what it means for the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve got a lot of questions I need answers to, but if it&#8217;s done right this could be a good thing,\u201d said Diodati Friday. \u201cI&#8217;m guessing that the province&#8217;s idea is not to add a tax, but to create an environment that&#8217;s more accountable, more transparent, more consistent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at this point, we&#8217;re still in the dark on it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Will a new hotel tax the province has granted municipalities power to impose replace the notorious Destination Marketing Fee in Niagara Falls? There were lots of guesses after Thursday&#8217;s provincial budget, but not much clarification. Even Mayor Jim Diodati is unsure just what the new tax is, and what it&#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_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":[252,184,243,603,41,1139],"class_list":["post-19605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-destination-marketing-fee","tag-dmf","tag-hotel-tax","tag-jim-diodati","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review"],"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\/19605","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=19605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19613,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19605\/revisions\/19613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}