{"id":8132,"date":"2010-02-27T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8132"},"modified":"2010-02-27T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T16:18:23","slug":"americans-a-tough-crowd-to-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/americans-a-tough-crowd-to-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans a tough crowd to draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2469605\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was a year to forget for the Niagara Parks Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial agency saw a dramatic decline in foreign visitation in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it was H1N1, which literally stopped international travel for a period of time, the coolest and wettest summer since 1992, rising fuel prices, or the rception of traffic delays at the border, the parks commission had a rough 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>From May through November, Niagara saw a sharp drop in cross-border travel from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>A 23.6% decline in June resulted in a 13% drop in revenues from U.S. customers in that month alone, said Joel Noden, an executive director with the parks commission.<\/p>\n<p>For the whole year, U.S. border crossings were down, on average, 12.1% &#8212; 16.1% for same-day crossings, 7.7% for overnight trips.<\/p>\n<p>He said the launch of passport requirements in June also hurt border travel last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: It was a year to forget for the Niagara Parks Commission. The provincial agency saw a dramatic decline in foreign visitation in 2009. Whether it was H1N1, which literally stopped international travel for a period of time, the coolest and wettest summer since 1992, rising fuel prices, or the rception&#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":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":[383,3006,3008,3009,99,1914,3005,3007],"class_list":["post-8132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-border-crossings","tag-border-travel","tag-international-travel","tag-joel-noden","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-overnight-trips","tag-passport-requirements","tag-traffic-delays"],"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\/8132","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=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8133,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions\/8133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}