{"id":20352,"date":"2017-07-10T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20352"},"modified":"2017-07-10T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:22:18","slug":"tour-operator-blasts-falls-tourism-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/10\/tour-operator-blasts-falls-tourism-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour operator blasts Falls tourism fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/07\/07\/tour-operator-blasts-falls-tourism-fee\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Toronto tour operator has blasted the city\u2019s Destination Marketing Fee (DMF) in an e-mail forwarded to council members, saying it \u201cdamages the image of Niagara as a welcoming tourist destination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Stevens, owner of Tripsetter Inc., is angry that the fee \u2013 up to 10% at some hotels \u2013 is \u201cunaccountable,\u201d and makes the cost of visiting Niagara more prohibitive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy imposing an optional fee, (it) only stains the image of Niagara Falls and heightens the \u2018tourist trap\u2019 perception,\u201d he wrote in a recent e-mail. \u201cAs a result, this can negatively influence one\u2019s decision to visit or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It reflects many of the same concerns shared on open forums like Trip Advisor, but when Stevens brought it up with a Niagara Falls Tourism member, he was told Trip Advisor is \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A Toronto tour operator has blasted the city\u2019s Destination Marketing Fee (DMF) in an e-mail forwarded to council members, saying it \u201cdamages the image of Niagara as a welcoming tourist destination.\u201d Jacob Stevens, owner of Tripsetter Inc., is angry that the fee \u2013 up to 10% at some hotels \u2013&#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],"tags":[252,184,12711,12306,12708,1139,180,12710,153,977,12709],"class_list":["post-20352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","tag-destination-marketing-fee","tag-dmf","tag-fake-news","tag-fee","tag-jacob-stevens","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-falls-tourism","tag-optional","tag-tourist-trap","tag-tripadvisor","tag-tripsetter-inc"],"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\/20352","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=20352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20359,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352\/revisions\/20359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}