{"id":3311,"date":"2008-07-19T10:04:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2008-07-19T10:04:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T14:04:45","slug":"report-boasts-ntccs-value-to-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/19\/report-boasts-ntccs-value-to-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Report boasts NTCC&#8217;s value to Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1588\">Niagara Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An expanded advertising and marketing campaign helped the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp. offer Niagara Falls a 16-to-1 return on its funding investment in 2007, according to a presentation made this week by NTCC President and CEO John Percy.<\/p>\n<p>Though NTCC represents the entire county, the bulk of its $2.8 million annual operating budget comes from hotel bed tax revenue and casino money in Niagara Falls. In exchange, Percy said the tourism agency helped generate approximately $46 million in tourism dollars in 2007. That estimate is based on the total number of visitors serviced by NTCC and results of a survey asking tourists how much they spent during their stays.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, more than 3,600 hotel rooms and 15,000 tours were sold by NTCC information centers resulting in nearly $1.5 million in revenue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Gazette: An expanded advertising and marketing campaign helped the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp. offer Niagara Falls a 16-to-1 return on its funding investment in 2007, according to a presentation made this week by NTCC President and CEO John Percy. Though NTCC represents the entire county, the bulk of its $2.8 million&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3311","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\/3311","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=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}