{"id":8276,"date":"2010-04-01T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2010-04-01T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:50:44","slug":"disney-entering-maid-of-the-mist-fray-as-contract-competition-grows-fierce-thirteen-companies-seeking-lucrative-canadian-concession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/disney-entering-maid-of-the-mist-fray-as-contract-competition-grows-fierce-thirteen-companies-seeking-lucrative-canadian-concession\/","title":{"rendered":"DISNEY ENTERING MAID OF THE MIST FRAY AS CONTRACT COMPETITION GROWS FIERCE: Thirteen companies seeking lucrative Canadian concession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreporter.com\/cover3.30.10.html\">Niagara Falls Reporter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The list of 13 bidders now standing in line to take over the concession to operate sightseeing boats below Niagara Falls from public docks on the Ontario side of the river reads like a who&#8217;s who of international tourism superstars.<\/p>\n<p>And two independent sources with direct knowledge of the bidding process told the Niagara Falls Reporter last week that Disney Cruise Lines, a subsidiary of one of the richest and most renowned entertainment companies on earth, is the early favorite in a field containing any number of household names.<\/p>\n<p>Three different Disney press spokespeople told the Reporter that company policy forbids discussion of deals that have yet to be consummated, and the Ontario provincial government has refused to provide the names of any of the potential bidders to the public. But Disney representatives will be among those to conduct an inspection of the Canadian dock site next month, the independent sources confirmed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Reporter: The list of 13 bidders now standing in line to take over the concession to operate sightseeing boats below Niagara Falls from public docks on the Ontario side of the river reads like a who&#8217;s who of international tourism superstars. And two independent sources with direct knowledge of the bidding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":[2],"tags":[3180,362,3175,3178,3179,88,3176,3177],"class_list":["post-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-bidders","tag-disney","tag-disney-cruise-lines","tag-entertainment-companies","tag-independent-sources","tag-maid-of-the-mist","tag-ontario-provincial-government","tag-sightseeing-boats"],"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\/8276","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=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}