{"id":3126,"date":"2008-06-23T09:56:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2008-06-23T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T13:56:08","slug":"tourism-minister-backs-parks-commission-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/23\/tourism-minister-backs-parks-commission-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism minister backs parks commission approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1509\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ontario Tourism Minister Peter Fonseca backs the Niagara Parks Commission\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach in developing tourism attractions and the role it plays in Niagara\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy even though it competes with private-sector businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m happy. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m excited,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fonseca said after visiting Niagara\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fury, the $7-million attraction the parks commission built onto Table Rock House, at the brink of the Horseshoe Falls.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a giant step for Ontario tourism,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fonseca said about the renovations at Table Rock. It was a ringing endorsement for the parks commission from the provincial cabinet minister who is responsible for overseeing the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The parks commission has been criticized by the head of the company that owns the Imax Niagara Falls theatre for developing an attraction he said goes head-to-head with its businesses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Ontario Tourism Minister Peter Fonseca backs the Niagara Parks Commission\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach in developing tourism attractions and the role it plays in Niagara\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy even though it competes with private-sector businesses. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m happy. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m excited,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fonseca said after visiting Niagara\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fury, the $7-million attraction the parks commission built onto Table Rock&#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-3126","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\/3126","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=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}