{"id":4183,"date":"2008-09-25T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2008-09-25T08:09:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T12:09:48","slug":"tourism-study-has-to-guide-us-down-a-path-to-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/25\/tourism-study-has-to-guide-us-down-a-path-to-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism study has to guide us down a path to innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an editorial in the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1782\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former finance minister Greg Sorbara brought his travelling tourism recovery mission to Niagara earlier this week, and the challenge to him is clear: He must come<\/p>\n<p>up with an original, forward-thinking strategy that will break new ground to ensure Ontario can get its fair share of the burgeoning tourist trade.<\/p>\n<p>Sorbara is on a 10-city tour as chairman of the Ontario Tourism Competitiveness Study.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tourism is going to be a very important component of the Ontario economy over the course of the next two decades,&#8221; Sorbara told The Niagara Falls Review, before meeting behind closed doors to hear presentations from some Niagara tourism operators.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Falls Mayor Ted Salci referred to the group as the nucleus of tourism in the Niagara region.<\/p>\n<p>From what we&#8217;ve been able to determine, Salci told him that whatever the province invests in Niagara, the private sector responds to overwhelmingly.<\/p>\n<p>That is clear, especially in Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an editorial in the Niagara Falls Review: Former finance minister Greg Sorbara brought his travelling tourism recovery mission to Niagara earlier this week, and the challenge to him is clear: He must come up with an original, forward-thinking strategy that will break new ground to ensure Ontario can get its fair share of the&#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-4183","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\/4183","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=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}