{"id":6493,"date":"2009-05-02T10:30:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T14:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2015-07-16T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:18:39","slug":"us-diplimoat-assures-regional-tourism-leaders-on-border-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/us-diplimoat-assures-regional-tourism-leaders-on-border-crossings\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. diplimoat assures regional tourism leaders on border crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotel-online.com\/News\/2009_May_01\/k.BFA.1241196755.html\">Hotel Online<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An American diplomat reassured regional tourism officials Thursday that tighter border-crossing requirements due to take effect June 1 will not impede the flow of travelers and their dollars to and from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone attending the fourth annual Binational Tourism Alliance was convinced. Some fretted that a looming flu pandemic, combined with heightened border security, could spell trouble for the trade.<\/p>\n<p>Washington &#8220;is committed to making the border work &#8230; to making sure people are not turned away,&#8221; said John R. Nay, U.S. consul general in Toronto.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Hotel Online: An American diplomat reassured regional tourism officials Thursday that tighter border-crossing requirements due to take effect June 1 will not impede the flow of travelers and their dollars to and from Canada. Not everyone attending the fourth annual Binational Tourism Alliance was convinced. Some fretted that a looming flu pandemic, combined with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[382,2,49],"tags":[1364,211,1400,1399,1401],"class_list":["post-6493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-border","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-binational-tourism-alliance","tag-border","tag-consul-general","tag-john-r-nay","tag-travelers"],"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\/6493","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\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}