{"id":6985,"date":"2009-07-24T12:06:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=6985"},"modified":"2009-07-24T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:06:46","slug":"passport-regulation-complicates-already-low-american-travel-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/passport-regulation-complicates-already-low-american-travel-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport regulation complicates already low American travel to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadaeast.com\/rss\/article\/738182\">CanadaEast.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Tetrault has noticed a 50 per cent drop in business at his bed and breakfast in Niagara Falls, Ont., this year and he estimates a chunk of that is the result of new passport regulations at the Canada-U.S. border.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our business is probably 30 per cent less just because of the passport issue alone,&#8221; says Tetrault, owner of the Niagara Inn Bed and Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had people who came in May who said, &#8216;Oh we&#8217;re not planning to get one (passport), so we&#8217;re coming now.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a trend that tourism operators say they have also experienced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CanadaEast.com: David Tetrault has noticed a 50 per cent drop in business at his bed and breakfast in Niagara Falls, Ont., this year and he estimates a chunk of that is the result of new passport regulations at the Canada-U.S. border. &#8220;Our business is probably 30 per cent less just because of the passport&#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_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":[382,2,49],"tags":[1789,1787,1494,1788,887],"class_list":["post-6985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-border","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-bed-and-breakfast","tag-canadaeast","tag-david-tetrault","tag-niagara-inn-bed-and-breakfast","tag-passport"],"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\/6985","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=6985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6986,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions\/6986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}