{"id":222,"date":"2006-05-17T08:48:10","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"surprising_travel_discoveries_just_acros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/17\/surprising_travel_discoveries_just_acros\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Travel Discoveries Just Across The Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is essentially a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?221\">press release<\/a> about how the OTMPC is going to market Niagara Falls, but it is still interesting reading:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A beautiful white sand beach. A place where wild animals roam free. A Caribbean carnival with bright colours and vibrant music. Sound like images of striking, tropical locales? No. These unique destinations can all be discovered in Ontario, Canada and are part of a new U.S. marketing strategy from the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation (OTMPC) aimed at increasing U.S. visitors this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, based on consumer research and insights, is designed to intrigue U.S. consumers in near-border markets and encourage them to discover the many diverse experiences Ontario has to offer. By presenting potential U.S. visitors with a new view of Ontario and highlighting its unique experiences and attractions, Ontario hopes to motivate Americans to take overnight family vacations in the province this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our research indicates many Americans perceive Ontario as a &#8216;been there, done that&#8217; travel destination, while those who haven&#8217;t visited the province are not aware of many things they can see and do here,&#8221; said Sandra McInnis, OTMPC&#8217;s President and CEO. &#8220;We need to give them compelling new reasons for cross-border travel and strongly position Ontario in consumers&#8217; minds when making summer vacation plans.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is essentially a press release about how the OTMPC is going to market Niagara Falls, but it is still interesting reading: A beautiful white sand beach. A place where wild animals roam free. A Caribbean carnival with bright colours and vibrant music. Sound like images of striking, tropical locales? No. These unique destinations can&#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-222","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\/222","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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}