{"id":3840,"date":"2008-08-28T08:30:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T12:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2008-08-28T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T11:59:20","slug":"niagara-falls-tourism-benefits-all-of-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/niagara-falls-tourism-benefits-all-of-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls tourism benefits all of Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1696\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mayor Brian McMullan of St. Catharines is right about one thing: Niagara is fortunate to have Niagara Falls as a major tourist destination.<\/p>\n<p>But he veers off course in suggesting all Niagara municipalities pool destination marketing fee money to promote the region to tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Given the number of hotels in the city, Niagara Falls would be carrying the bulk of the load when it comes to contributing pooled resources.<\/p>\n<p>The status quo is far from perfect. Right now, the money collected in Niagara Falls stays with the hotel owners to fund their own programs as well as buy-in promotions with Niagara Falls Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of St. Catharines, a government-approved destination marketing fee is collected by the city and remitted to the Ontario Restaurant, Hotel and Motel Association, where it is also managed.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not the point in this instance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Mayor Brian McMullan of St. Catharines is right about one thing: Niagara is fortunate to have Niagara Falls as a major tourist destination. But he veers off course in suggesting all Niagara municipalities pool destination marketing fee money to promote the region to tourists. Given the number of hotels in&#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-3840","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\/3840","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=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}