{"id":813,"date":"2006-07-14T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/07\/14\/undercut-by-premature-passport-itis\/"},"modified":"2006-07-14T10:27:50","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T14:27:50","slug":"undercut-by-premature-passport-itis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/14\/undercut-by-premature-passport-itis\/","title":{"rendered":"Undercut by premature passport-itis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?350\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Less than two years before passports would be required to enter the United States from either of its neighbors, the Niagara region&#8217;s tourism industry is already taking a big economic hit.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian businesses are bemoaning scrapped visits by Americans who think the new border security initiative already is in effect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perception is reality to people,&#8221; said Dave Hyde, president of the Ontario-based Niagara Falls Tours. &#8220;They already perceive it as a problem, so they don&#8217;t bother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the American side, the hospitality industry &#8211; a good barometer of tourism strength &#8211; has been soft, said Dave Fleck, president of the Niagara Falls Hotel\/Motel Association.<\/p>\n<p>June was the first month in recent memory that revenue at his Howard Johnson hotel did not top the figure from the same month in the previous year, he said.<\/p>\n<p>But while the issue cuts both ways, industry officials agree, the brunt of the impact is on Canadian businesses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: Less than two years before passports would be required to enter the United States from either of its neighbors, the Niagara region&#8217;s tourism industry is already taking a big economic hit. Canadian businesses are bemoaning scrapped visits by Americans who think the new border security initiative already is in effect. &#8220;Perception&#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-813","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\/813","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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}