{"id":2305,"date":"2007-11-23T08:45:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T13:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/23\/strong-canada-dollar-hurts-niagara-falls-tourism\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T08:45:05","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T13:45:05","slug":"strong-canada-dollar-hurts-niagara-falls-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/23\/strong-canada-dollar-hurts-niagara-falls-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Canada dollar hurts Niagara Falls tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1145\">Sympatico Finance<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls, one of Canada&#8217;s most prized tourism attractions, is luring fewer American visitors this year because of an unfavorable exchange rate, a Canadian tourism official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The number of U.S. day trippers crossing the border into Canada to see the spectacular waterfalls has dropped 16 percent this year, Christopher Jones, vice-president of public affairs for the Tourism Industry Association of Canada, told a parliamentary finance committee.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Falls is one of many cases of lost tourism revenue seen across Canada due to the rising value of its currency against the U.S. dollar, Jones said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Sympatico Finance: Niagara Falls, one of Canada&#8217;s most prized tourism attractions, is luring fewer American visitors this year because of an unfavorable exchange rate, a Canadian tourism official said on Thursday. The number of U.S. day trippers crossing the border into Canada to see the spectacular waterfalls has dropped 16 percent this year, Christopher&#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-2305","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\/2305","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=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}