{"id":854,"date":"2006-08-01T10:28:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T14:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/08\/01\/niagara-fights-tourist-slump-with-glitz\/"},"modified":"2006-08-01T10:28:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T14:28:22","slug":"niagara-fights-tourist-slump-with-glitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/niagara-fights-tourist-slump-with-glitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara fights tourist slump with glitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular visitor Dan linked to this article in a comment to a previous post&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?383\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Okay, everybody, repeat after me: &#8220;What happens in Niagara Falls stays in Niagara Falls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t have quite the same zing as the original? Well, get used to it, because our city of the whirling waters is definitely trying to position itself as a smaller, wetter version of Las Vegas &#8230; especially in the area of entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>And considering the way the tourist business is going in North America, it&#8217;s a necessary move.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional vacation destinations are all suffering a decline in attendance. From Yellowstone Park to Disney World, the numbers are way, way down over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>Even a local Ontario icon like the Maid of the Mist is reportedly taking in 40 per cent fewer customers than it did not that long ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular visitor Dan linked to this article in a comment to a previous post&#8230; From the Toronto Star: Okay, everybody, repeat after me: &#8220;What happens in Niagara Falls stays in Niagara Falls.&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t have quite the same zing as the original? Well, get used to it, because our city of the whirling waters is definitely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/854","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}