{"id":8249,"date":"2010-03-26T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2010-03-26T11:12:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:12:58","slug":"december-visitor-figures-gloomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/december-visitor-figures-gloomy\/","title":{"rendered":"December visitor figures gloomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2506744\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The weather wasn&#8217;t the only thing that was dreary in December.<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures from Ontario&#8217;s Ministry of Tourism and Culture show border crossings into Ontario from the United States were down 12.4% compared to the same period the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Same day travel was down 15.5% while overnight crossings saw an 8.7% decrease, according to the most current edition of the provincial Tourism Performance Bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>The December numbers were a continuation of a year-long trend that saw U.S. same-day crossing down an average of 16.1% in 2009 compared to 2008 and overnight crossings down 7.7 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Travel to Ontario from overseas markets declined by 5.6% in December and were down 13.6% for the whole year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The weather wasn&#8217;t the only thing that was dreary in December. The latest figures from Ontario&#8217;s Ministry of Tourism and Culture show border crossings into Ontario from the United States were down 12.4% compared to the same period the previous year. Same day travel was down 15.5% while overnight crossings&#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":[382,2,49],"tags":[383,3120,108,3118,3119,3117,355],"class_list":["post-8249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-border","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-border-crossings","tag-december","tag-ministry-of-tourism","tag-overseas-markets","tag-provincial-tourism","tag-same-day-travel","tag-weather"],"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\/8249","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=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}