{"id":2428,"date":"2008-01-10T15:40:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T20:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/niagaras-tourism-future-could-be-rooted-in-the-past\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T20:40:30","slug":"niagaras-tourism-future-could-be-rooted-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/niagaras-tourism-future-could-be-rooted-in-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara&#8217;s tourism future could be rooted in the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1216\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some call it a niche market. Others claim it could be the missing link for tourism in Niagara.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Dale has his own take on heritage tourism.<\/p>\n<p>If local municipalities \u00e2\u20ac\u0153think outside the box\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when celebrations kick off to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812 in four years, they may find that long-awaited cure to curtail the downward spiral of visitors to the region, says Dale, national project manager for Parks Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s War of 1812 Bicentennial committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hoping to build awareness and pride. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also hoping to build heritage tourism that will go a long way in sustaining our historic infrastructure that is right here in Niagara,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Dale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Some call it a niche market. Others claim it could be the missing link for tourism in Niagara. Ron Dale has his own take on heritage tourism. If local municipalities \u00e2\u20ac\u0153think outside the box\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when celebrations kick off to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812 in four years,&#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-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","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=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}