{"id":2145,"date":"2007-10-04T06:29:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T10:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/tourism-the-silent-issue\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T06:29:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T10:29:47","slug":"tourism-the-silent-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/tourism-the-silent-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"TOURISM: THE SILENT ISSUE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?1056\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Brian and Lisa Wagner, an Erie, Pa., couple, decided to visit Niagara Falls this week it was an obvious choice &#8211; they were on their honeymoon.<\/p>\n<p>But many Americans base travel plans on what they read and see on TV, said Brian Wagner, a customer service representative for an insurance company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Definitely they are influenced by billboards, even if they don&#8217;t think they are. If you see something over and over again, it sticks,&#8221; he said Wednesday while looking for information about local attractions.<\/p>\n<p>American travellers are vital as the Niagara Falls tourism industry tries to rebound after a few sluggish seasons. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: When Brian and Lisa Wagner, an Erie, Pa., couple, decided to visit Niagara Falls this week it was an obvious choice &#8211; they were on their honeymoon. But many Americans base travel plans on what they read and see on TV, said Brian Wagner, a customer service representative for an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/2145","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}