{"id":8218,"date":"2010-03-23T12:22:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8218"},"modified":"2010-03-23T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T16:22:45","slug":"maids-enjoy-favourable-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/maids-enjoy-favourable-reputation\/","title":{"rendered":"Maids enjoy favourable reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2490124\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maid of the Mist is seen as an important part of any visit to Niagara Falls, tourists respect the name, and any interruption in its service would &#8220;negatively impact&#8221; Niagara&#8217;s tourism industry, a survey commissioned by the historic boat tour company suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The company hired Leger Marketing to survey 2,308 people on their impressions of Maid of the Mist, just as the Niagara Parks Commission is about to launch a government ordered competitive bidding process that could lead to a new company providing boat tours on the Niagara River.<\/p>\n<p>But the survey results were dismissed as self-serving, unscientific and meaningless by representatives of other companies interested in landing the parks commission lease on the property needed to run a boat tour operation, as well as by critics of the long-standing relationship between Maid of the Mist and the Niagara Parks Commission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Maid of the Mist is seen as an important part of any visit to Niagara Falls, tourists respect the name, and any interruption in its service would &#8220;negatively impact&#8221; Niagara&#8217;s tourism industry, a survey commissioned by the historic boat tour company suggests. The company hired Leger Marketing to survey 2,308&#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":[2871,2575,88,3080,99,144,3081,118,84],"class_list":["post-8218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-boat-tour","tag-boat-tours","tag-maid-of-the-mist","tag-maids","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-niagara-river","tag-survey-results","tag-tourism-industry","tag-tourists"],"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\/8218","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=8218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8219,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions\/8219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}