{"id":2218,"date":"2007-10-26T08:16:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T12:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/tough-competition-market-conditions-leave-tourism-operators-wondering\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T08:16:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T12:16:57","slug":"tough-competition-market-conditions-leave-tourism-operators-wondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/tough-competition-market-conditions-leave-tourism-operators-wondering\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough competition, market conditions leave tourism operators wondering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?1089\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the second in a three-part series looking at the state of the city&#8217;s tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, more than 12 million people from around the world travel to Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Well-heeled and blue-collar families from cities and towns in New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio; daytrippers from Western New York and southern Ontario; travellers from Britain, Europe, South America and Asia; singles, couples &#8211; they all come here.<\/p>\n<p>But the awesome sight of the rushing water can only hold the attention of visitors for so long before it is time to move on to something else.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s finding that &#8216;something else&#8217; to appeal to a broad range of visitors that is so often the problem, say tourism insiders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: This is the second in a three-part series looking at the state of the city&#8217;s tourism industry. Every year, more than 12 million people from around the world travel to Niagara Falls. Well-heeled and blue-collar families from cities and towns in New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio; daytrippers from Western&#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_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-2218","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\/2218","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=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}