{"id":9598,"date":"2011-02-24T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9598"},"modified":"2011-02-24T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T17:36:13","slug":"tourism-operators-applaud-loosening-liquor-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/tourism-operators-applaud-loosening-liquor-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism operators applaud loosening liquor laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2992193\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beer and wine drinkers might soon be able to walk  among the teetotallers now that Ontario&#8217;s Liberals plan to loosen the  province&#8217;s liquor laws.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a move some Niagara Falls tourism operators say will help the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney  General Chris Bentley announced plans to overhaul the rules preventing  Ontario resorts from offering the kind of all-inclusive packages popular  at Caribbean resorts where alcoholic drinks are built into the price.<\/p>\n<p>Among  the changes being considered are dropping the need for beer tents,  extending the hours that alcohol can be sold at special events, allowing  all-inclusive packages in Ontario and enabling people to circulate with  drinks in-hand in retail booth areas of festivals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe  any well-managed policy that makes us more competitive on the  international stage would be beneficial to the industry,&#8221; said Keith  Simmonds, general manager of Great Wolf Lodge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Beer and wine drinkers might soon be able to walk among the teetotallers now that Ontario&#8217;s Liberals plan to loosen the province&#8217;s liquor laws. It&#8217;s a move some Niagara Falls tourism operators say will help the industry. Attorney General Chris Bentley announced plans to overhaul the rules preventing Ontario resorts&#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":[2,23],"tags":[5184,3039,5182,5180,3383,171,1317,5179,180,5181,5185,436,5183],"class_list":["post-9598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-night-life","tag-alcoholic-drinks","tag-attorney-general","tag-beer-tents","tag-chris-bentley","tag-general-manager","tag-great-wolf-lodge","tag-keith-simmonds","tag-liquor-laws","tag-niagara-falls-tourism","tag-retail-booth","tag-teetotallers","tag-tourism-operators","tag-wine-drinkers"],"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\/9598","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=9598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}