{"id":2177,"date":"2007-10-17T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/17\/cirque-niagara-folds-its-tent-after-second-season\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T13:56:57","slug":"cirque-niagara-folds-its-tent-after-second-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/17\/cirque-niagara-folds-its-tent-after-second-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirque Niagara folds its tent after second season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?1073\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The demise of Cirque Niagara&#8217;s Avaia may have more to do with a flawed business plan than with succumbing to some of the challenges in the new tourism landscape, says the chair of Niagara Falls Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not expected that other major attractions will be closing up, said Wayne Thomson, chair of Niagara Falls Tourism. In fact some new developments are moving ahead at full-speed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It mystifies me (Cirque&#8217;s reasoning). With the dollar, passport confusion, the border, terrorism, SARS that people are still coming to Niagara Falls,&#8221; said Thomson. &#8220;People are still coming and filling up hotels.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: The demise of Cirque Niagara&#8217;s Avaia may have more to do with a flawed business plan than with succumbing to some of the challenges in the new tourism landscape, says the chair of Niagara Falls Tourism. It&#8217;s not expected that other major attractions will be closing up, said Wayne Thomson, chair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2177","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\/2177","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=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}