{"id":8778,"date":"2010-07-07T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8778"},"modified":"2010-07-07T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T13:20:45","slug":"tourism-gets-g20-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/07\/tourism-gets-g20-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism gets G20 boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2657116\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With yet another long weekend behind them, some local tourism officials like what they&#8217;ve seen from the summer so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody seems to be up slightly (from this time last year),&#8221; said Niagara Falls Tourism chairman Wayne Thomson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rates for accommodations are not what they used to be, but I think there&#8217;s optimism for the rest of the summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, traffic seemed to be up in the city, while stores and restaurants appear to be recovering from tough economic times, said Thomson.<\/p>\n<p>He said Niagara Falls benefi ted from the G20 summit June 26 and 27, which saw a plethora of Torontonians leave their city, many coming to the Honeymoon Capital for a reprieve.<\/p>\n<p>The White House even confirmed U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s daughters, Malia and Sasha, along with their grandmother, Marian Robinson, made a visit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;June was good, better than June of last year,&#8221; said Thomson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: With yet another long weekend behind them, some local tourism officials like what they&#8217;ve seen from the summer so far. &#8220;Everybody seems to be up slightly (from this time last year),&#8221; said Niagara Falls Tourism chairman Wayne Thomson. &#8220;Rates for accommodations are not what they used to be, but I&#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":[2,49],"tags":[1047,3933,3936,3889,481,3886,3934,180,64,3887,1656,3935,214,845,3883],"class_list":["post-8778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-barack-obama","tag-daughters","tag-g20","tag-g20-summit","tag-honeymoon-capital","tag-malia-obama","tag-marian-robinson","tag-niagara-falls-tourism","tag-restaurants","tag-sasha-obama","tag-toronto","tag-torontonians","tag-traffic","tag-wayne-thomson","tag-white-house"],"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\/8778","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=8778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8779,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions\/8779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}