{"id":2939,"date":"2008-05-08T08:38:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T12:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2008-05-08T08:38:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T12:38:04","slug":"cautious-optimism-pervades-tourism-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/cautious-optimism-pervades-tourism-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Cautious optimism pervades tourism sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1413\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara&#8217;s tourism operators hope Greg Sorbara&#8217;s got some inside information about the upcoming tourist season.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal MPP for Vaughn, who is touring Ontario while undertaking a tourism competitiveness study, told Niagara winemakers Tuesday while the number of visitors from near-border markets may be on the decline, &#8220;we&#8217;re doing things in this region and elsewhere in Ontario that are attracting people from farther away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visitors from farther away &#8211; northern or eastern Ontario or another country &#8211; stay longer and spend more on meals, attractions, accommodations and souvenirs than those who make a day trip to Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>An increase in long-haul visitors can&#8217;t replace the dwindling numbers of Americans from the nearby rubber-tire market, but they can help bolster a flagging number of U.S. visitors, said Wayne Thomson, president of Niagara Falls Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s definitely some merit in what he says,&#8221; Thomson said. &#8220;I&#8217;m cautiously optimistic for this season.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara&#8217;s tourism operators hope Greg Sorbara&#8217;s got some inside information about the upcoming tourist season. The Liberal MPP for Vaughn, who is touring Ontario while undertaking a tourism competitiveness study, told Niagara winemakers Tuesday while the number of visitors from near-border markets may be on the decline, &#8220;we&#8217;re doing things&#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-2939","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\/2939","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=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}