{"id":3580,"date":"2008-08-08T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2008-08-07T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T13:01:00","slug":"plenty-of-reasons-to-be-optimistic-about-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/08\/plenty-of-reasons-to-be-optimistic-about-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Plenty of reasons to be optimistic about tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1643\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Depending on who you talk to, things don&#8217;t appear to be as bad as many thought they would be in the tourism sector this year.<\/p>\n<p>Some operators along Clifton Hill are reporting a better-than-expected summer &#8211; poor weather, a high Canadian dollar and slowdowns at the border haven&#8217;t stopped visitors from crowding the tourist hot spot in Niagara Falls, despite projections earlier this year that the numbers might fall.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, we hear from others who say it has been a soft year &#8230; much as what was expected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Depending on who you talk to, things don&#8217;t appear to be as bad as many thought they would be in the tourism sector this year. Some operators along Clifton Hill are reporting a better-than-expected summer &#8211; poor weather, a high Canadian dollar and slowdowns at the border haven&#8217;t stopped visitors&#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_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-3580","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\/3580","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=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}