{"id":21216,"date":"2017-11-13T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=21216"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T16:09:48","slug":"diodati-calls-for-clarity-on-hotel-tax-dmf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/13\/diodati-calls-for-clarity-on-hotel-tax-dmf\/","title":{"rendered":"Diodati calls for clarity on hotel tax, DMF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/11\/08\/tourism-sector-calls-for-clarity-on-hotel-tax-dmf\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It will be up to the City of Niagara Falls whether to replace the controversial Destination Marketing Fee with a new hotel tax, says Eleanor McMahon, Ontario\u2019s minister of tourism, culture and sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat will be up to municipalities, that will be up to them to decide,\u201d she told the Niagara Falls Review during a sit-down interview following her address to delegates this week at the Ontario Tourism Summit at the Scotiabank Convention Centre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: It will be up to the City of Niagara Falls whether to replace the controversial Destination Marketing Fee with a new hotel tax, says Eleanor McMahon, Ontario\u2019s minister of tourism, culture and sport. \u201cThat will be up to municipalities, that will be up to them to decide,\u201d she told the&#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":[252,184,13236,243,603,3384,13237,4767],"class_list":["post-21216","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-eleanor-mcmahon","tag-hotel-tax","tag-jim-diodati","tag-minister-of-tourism","tag-ontario-tourism-summit","tag-scotiabank-convention-centre"],"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\/21216","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=21216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21219,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21216\/revisions\/21219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}