{"id":2235,"date":"2007-10-31T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/tourism-agency-gets-more-cash\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T09:37:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T13:37:33","slug":"tourism-agency-gets-more-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/tourism-agency-gets-more-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism agency gets more cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?1105\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tourism industry deserves the city&#8217;s support, says the head of Niagara Falls Tourism, as council bucked a trend that would have cut funding for the agency over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing a presentation from Anna Pierce, head of Niagara Falls Tourism, during a corporate services meeting Monday where council heard a request for funding, council allocated $400,000 to its budget for the agency, about $120,000 more than it gave last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely pleased with the reception by council,&#8221; said Pierce after the meeting. &#8220;I think everyone realizes the economic impact in Niagara Falls is so significant we can&#8217;t ignore it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: The tourism industry deserves the city&#8217;s support, says the head of Niagara Falls Tourism, as council bucked a trend that would have cut funding for the agency over the next few years. After hearing a presentation from Anna Pierce, head of Niagara Falls Tourism, during a corporate services meeting Monday where&#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-2235","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\/2235","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=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}