{"id":3003,"date":"2008-05-22T11:55:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2008-05-22T11:55:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:55:32","slug":"tourism-leaders-like-call-to-repeal-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/tourism-leaders-like-call-to-repeal-sales-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism leaders like call to repeal sales tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1445\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara tourism industry insiders say they support John Tory and Tim Hudak&#8217;s call for the government to repeal the provincial sales tax for attractions and accommodations this summer. &#8220;Anything that will help bring tourists to Niagara Falls is a good thing,&#8221; said Chamber of Commerce president Carolyn Bones, during the chamber&#8217;s monthly Business After Five meeting at the Edgewater&#8217;s Tap House and Grill Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day Hudak and Tory, the Niagara-West Glanbrook MPP and provincial Conservative leader, challenged the provincial government to suspend the eight per cent provincial sales tax on hotels and attractions to stimulate visits to Ontario.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara tourism industry insiders say they support John Tory and Tim Hudak&#8217;s call for the government to repeal the provincial sales tax for attractions and accommodations this summer. &#8220;Anything that will help bring tourists to Niagara Falls is a good thing,&#8221; said Chamber of Commerce president Carolyn Bones, during the&#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-3003","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\/3003","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=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}