{"id":9665,"date":"2011-04-08T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9665"},"modified":"2011-04-08T13:37:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T17:37:03","slug":"tourism-tug-of-war-who-is-marketing-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/tourism-tug-of-war-who-is-marketing-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism tug of war: Who is marketing Niagara?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3056554\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Welcome to the bumpy ride that is regional tourism.<\/p>\n<p>A new body meant to co-ordinate provincial tourism funding for all of Niagara is just getting off the ground. But the fledgling Regional Tourism Organization has already stumbled into a controversy over an untendered marketing contract.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the much-maligned Niagara Economic Development Corp., the regional government-funded agency that runs a separate Tourism Niagara website, is paralyzed by a political debate over its future.<\/p>\n<p>When the dust settles, Niagara is supposed to have a co-operative, industry-led organization designed to cut through the clutter of competing marketing efforts and help co-ordinate an effective, regional tourism strategy.<\/p>\n<p>But right now, some industry members feel &#8220;it&#8217;s hard to do our job,&#8221; said Susan Morin, community economic development manager for Venture Niagara.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Welcome to the bumpy ride that is regional tourism. A new body meant to co-ordinate provincial tourism funding for all of Niagara is just getting off the ground. But the fledgling Regional Tourism Organization has already stumbled into a controversy over an untendered marketing contract. Meanwhile, the much-maligned Niagara Economic&#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":[5278,5270,5279,5272,5276,5275,83,5277,3119,5273,3638,4683,5274,546,3637,5271],"class_list":["post-9665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-debate","tag-economic-development-corp","tag-future","tag-marketing-efforts","tag-nedc","tag-niagara-economic-development-corp","tag-niagara-tourism","tag-politics","tag-provincial-tourism","tag-regional-government","tag-regional-tourism","tag-regional-tourism-organization","tag-rto","tag-tourism-niagara","tag-tourism-organization","tag-tourism-strategy"],"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\/9665","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=9665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}