{"id":8131,"date":"2010-02-27T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8131"},"modified":"2010-02-27T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T16:16:47","slug":"extremely-bleak-conditions-still-dog-niagaras-tourism-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/extremely-bleak-conditions-still-dog-niagaras-tourism-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Extremely bleak&#8217; conditions still dog Niagara&#8217;s tourism industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2469601\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Niagara Parks Commission wasn&#8217;t the only business to struggle in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The tourism industry as a whole had to scratch and claw its way through a year hampered by unseasonable weather, new passport requirements and a deadly influenza strain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s extremely bleak out there,&#8221; said Niagara Falls Tourism chairman Wayne Thomson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the parks commission is always a good barometer. If the parks commission is not doing well, then we in tourism in general aren&#8217;t doing well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thomson said some of the remote areas on Lundy&#8217;s Lane saw a 20 to 25% drop in business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were extremely badly hit. The key tourist areas &#8212; Clifton Hill and Fallsview, depending on the property, location and branding &#8212; you&#8217;re probably talking 5 to 15% down from the previous year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission wasn&#8217;t the only business to struggle in 2009. The tourism industry as a whole had to scratch and claw its way through a year hampered by unseasonable weather, new passport requirements and a deadly influenza strain. &#8220;It&#8217;s extremely bleak out there,&#8221; said Niagara Falls Tourism chairman&#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":[2,49],"tags":[3003,59,58,267,180,99,118,3004],"class_list":["post-8131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-bleak-conditions","tag-clifton-hill","tag-fallsview","tag-lundys-lane","tag-niagara-falls-tourism","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-tourism-industry","tag-tourist-areas"],"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\/8131","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=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}