{"id":9878,"date":"2011-06-22T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2011-06-22T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T11:54:30","slug":"canada%e2%80%99s-newest-convention-hot-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/canada%e2%80%99s-newest-convention-hot-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s newest convention hot spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesslinkniagara.com\/pressreleases\/?id=452\">Business Link Niagara<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canada\u2019s Honeymoon City has long been known as a tourist destination. Anchored by the iconic Niagara Falls itself, a thriving hospitality and attractions sector has become the face of the city.<\/p>\n<p>That isn\u2019t going away, but Niagara Falls is taking big strides to go beyond the bright lights to position itself as one of Canada\u2019s top destinations for conventions, conferences and trade shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTourism is very much driven by the seasons, but conventions and business travellers will make Niagara Falls a year-round destination,\u201d says Anthony Annunziata, Vice-President of Marketing at the Marriott Gateway on the Falls\u00a0. \u201cNiagara Falls has a premier facility for large corporate gatherings, with all the amenities to keep your employees, delegates and clients happy when not on the convention floor.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Business Link Niagara: Canada\u2019s Honeymoon City has long been known as a tourist destination. Anchored by the iconic Niagara Falls itself, a thriving hospitality and attractions sector has become the face of the city. That isn\u2019t going away, but Niagara Falls is taking big strides to go beyond the bright lights to position itself&#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_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":[359,2],"tags":[1433,4585,5661,69,5662,5660,5659,115,5664,41,2144,5663],"class_list":["post-9878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-convention-centre","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-anthony-annunziata","tag-business-link","tag-business-travellers","tag-convention-centre","tag-conventions","tag-corporate-gatherings","tag-honeymoon-city","tag-marriott","tag-marriott-gateway-on-the-falls","tag-niagara-falls","tag-tourist-destination","tag-vice-president-of-marketing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878","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=9878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}