The Niagara Falls tourism industry is one of the largest in all of Canada and continues to expand at an incredible pace. There are many new developments in attractions, accommodations, restaurants, urban districts, power generation, bridge crossings, parks, etc. that have come to the city, year after year.
This Niagara Falls Blog, was created to bring visitors up to speed with this ever evolving tourism industry and hopefully help them plan a visit.
Check below for the latest Niagara Falls news. There are many interesting posts and articles!
Printed by the Review
A people mover ‘lite’; Council opts for smaller system to move tourists
Posted By COREY LAROCQUE
It’s now or never for a people mover system in Niagara Falls - even if it’s not as grand as originally planned, says Dave Schram, a consultant working on the project for six years.
“There are two choices. Either move forward with Phase 1 or forget about the project,” Schram told the city’s community services committee Monday.
City council endorsed a plan to proceed with what Schram called a “top of escarpment” transit system instead of the “fully looped” design that has been in the works since 1998.
The city is now looking at a route that would be about one-quarter the length of the 10-kilometre loop that has been on the drawing board for years. (more…)
Printed by the Review
Olympic torch may make stop in Falls
The Olympic torch could light up Niagara Falls before the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
Mayor Ted Salci confirmed the Falls is one of the cities organizers will invite to participate in the 100-day relay leading to the Vancouver games. (more…)
Printed by the Review
People mover restarted; Ten years on, council looks at revised plan
Posted By COREY LAROCQUE
Half a people mover might be better than none.
After 10 years of trying to develop a mass-transit system to shuttle people through the busiest tourist areas, city council will consider going ahead with the just the top portion of what was originally to be a 10-kilometre loop between Bender Street and Marineland.
A report going to tonight’s community services committee meeting recommends a “phased approach” to the people mover project.
It suggests the city focus on building the section along the top of the escarpment first, from Clifton Hill to the Rapidsview parking area.
“Although a fully looped system is the preferred approach by all partners in the project, it is generally concluded … that a fully looped system is a longer-term goal for the project,” the report by city chief administrative officer John MacDonald states.
If council accepts the report, the city will move ahead without the Niagara Parks Commission as a partner. (more…)
Printed by the Review
Artists heading to Niagara Parks
Posted By The Review
Old Fort Erie, the Laura Secord Homestead and McFarland House will be decorated by members of the Parkway Artists’ Guild this summer.
For the 10th season, work created by the more than 100 members of the Parkway Artists’ Guild will be on display – and on sale – at the Botanical Gardens.
This year, the program will be extended to the new venues, to give more people an opportunity to buy work by local artists. A portion from the sale of each piece will be donated back to the Niagara Parks to help maintain the heritage sites, attractions and parkland. (more…)
Printed by the Review
Convention centre logo gets an ‘A’
Posted By Larocque, Corey
It’s no Nike Swoosh. And it’s not McDonald’s Golden Arches. But the Niagara Convention and Civic Centre’s logo isn’t trying to push a billion cheeseburgers, so its logo will probably work just fine.
Convention centre management held a splashy reception at the Fallsview Casino Friday to unveil its logo and the slogan it’s going to use to bring the world’s convention business to Niagara after 2011.
“It kind of grows on you,” might have been the best reaction, though lots of other people said they loved it. (A black-and-white version of it runs on Page A5. A colour version is attached to website version of this column.)
The company hired to design it called it a “fresh and original interpretation of the falls.”
A fresh and original version of something that has been doing the exact same thing for millions of years. Good luck with that. (more…)
