{"id":7769,"date":"2009-12-03T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T19:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2009-12-03T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T19:31:37","slug":"china-makes-it-easier-for-citizens-to-visit-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/china-makes-it-easier-for-citizens-to-visit-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"China makes it easier for citizens to visit Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2204968\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China has granted Canada a new designation that will make it easier for Chinese travellers to visit this country, a move Niagara&#8217;s tourism industry has been eagerly anticipating for years.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday Canada has been given Approved Destination Status. Harper made the announcement in Beijing following his meeting the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, 159,000 Chinese travellers came to Canada, an increase of 5.3 per cent over the previous year, the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tiny fraction of the 1.3 billion people in China, the world&#8217;s most populous country.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism operators like the Niagara Parks Commission have been eager to see Canada earn Approved Destination Status because opens Canada&#8217;s door to more travellers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: China has granted Canada a new designation that will make it easier for Chinese travellers to visit this country, a move Niagara&#8217;s tourism industry has been eagerly anticipating for years. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday Canada has been given Approved Destination Status. Harper made the announcement in Beijing following&#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":[2],"tags":[2607,2612,474,99,2609,2611,2011,2608,2012,2610],"class_list":["post-7769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-approved-destination-status","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-pmo","tag-premier","tag-prime-minister","tag-prime-ministers-office","tag-stephen-harper","tag-wen-jia-bo"],"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\/7769","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=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7771,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions\/7771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}