{"id":3119,"date":"2008-06-21T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2008-06-21T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T18:14:09","slug":"no-deal-for-imax-says-niagara-parks-comission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/no-deal-for-imax-says-niagara-parks-comission\/","title":{"rendered":"No deal for Imax, says Niagara Parks Comission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1504\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Niagara Parks Commission won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play favourites by making a marketing deal with the Imax theatre it wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make with another attraction, says chairman Jim Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In other words, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not going to treat them with any special consideration,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said in an interview Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Imax Niagara Falls had proposed promoting each other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attractions because the commission\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newest attraction, Niagara\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fury, will compete with the 23-year-old theatre on Fallsview Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>In a private meeting Friday, the Niagara Parks Commission rejected a proposal from Destination Cinema, Imax\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Utah-based parent company, to hand out discount coupons at each site to encourage tourists to visit the other.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief executive officer Bob Perkins said he was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153disappointed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with the parks commission\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision and still questions why a government agency is allowed to compete with the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s directly competitive to our business,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Perkins said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play favourites by making a marketing deal with the Imax theatre it wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make with another attraction, says chairman Jim Williams. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In other words, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not going to treat them with any special consideration,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said in an interview Friday. Imax Niagara Falls had proposed&#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-3119","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\/3119","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=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}