{"id":8488,"date":"2010-05-19T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2010-05-19T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T14:13:39","slug":"operators-need-to-show-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/operators-need-to-show-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Operators need to show innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2584800\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Weddings aboard a tour boat in the mist of Niagara Falls could become a new tradition depending on what &#8220;innovative&#8221; ideas companies propose in their bids to operate tours from the Canadian side of the Niagara River.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can provide anything that you think will work,&#8221; said Bill Mocsan, a consultant hired by the Ministry of Tourism to help the Niagara Parks Commission pick a company to provide tours &#8212; a process that could end the commission&#8217;s historic tie with the Maid of the Mist Steamboat Co.<\/p>\n<p>Mocsan, the government-appointed procurement specialist will draft the request for proposals for companies interested in winning the lease to run boat tours from a piece of parks commission property.<\/p>\n<p>Other possibilities could include hour-long cruises with hot meals. A snack bar on board. And night tours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2584246\">&#8220;preview&#8221; put up yesterday<\/a> also has some videos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Weddings aboard a tour boat in the mist of Niagara Falls could become a new tradition depending on what &#8220;innovative&#8221; ideas companies propose in their bids to operate tours from the Canadian side of the Niagara River. &#8220;You can provide anything that you think will work,&#8221; said Bill Mocsan, a&#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":[16,2],"tags":[2575,3525,88,108,99,3509,3524,1820,3523,1823],"class_list":["post-8488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-boat-tours","tag-innovation","tag-maid-of-the-mist","tag-ministry-of-tourism","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-procurement-specialist","tag-request-for-proposals","tag-snack-bar","tag-tour-boat","tag-weddings"],"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\/8488","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=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}