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!
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Historic Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club is a Niagara Falls’ treasure
By Chris Baldwin,
Senior Writer
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario - Turn down a side street on a town that looks like it’s straight out of the 1950s (it’s Canada so you’re not far off), and they’re there. People walking down the street with golf bags on their backs, strolling to a course.
It’s a scene you’d expect to see in St. Andrews or some other shrine to golf. Instead it’s found in this town of almost 14,000 that stands out as one of the most unique towns in North America - one that happens to have one of the best nine-hole golf courses in the world.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club stakes a claim as being the oldest golf course in North America, tracing its roots back to 1875. Royal Montreal Golf Club counters that it came on the scene in 1873 and actually is older. (more…)
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‘Prince of the Air’ grounded by security costs
Costs for hiring off-duty police ‘destroy’ return of wirewalker Jay Cochrane, coucillor says
Posted By Corey Larocque
The $40,000 cost of hiring police to close Clifton Hill every day “destroyed” plans to bring tightrope walker Jay Cochrane back to Niagara Falls this summer, says Coun. Wayne Thomson, a go-between for Cochrane and tourism operators.
Tourism operators had been making arrangements to bring Cochrane, “The Prince of the Air” back to Niagara Falls this summer, this time to perform on Clifton Hill.
“It was going exceptionally well. In the final analysis, it came down to the police costs which were in the area of $40,000 for the summer,” Thomson said in an interview Tuesday.
Niagara Falls Tourism’s website says Cochrane “is expected to return to Niagara Falls” this summer. His plans were to walk a wire between the Sheraton-on-the-Falls hotel, at the corner of Falls Avenue and Clifton Hill, to a platform erected on the south side of Clifton Hill on land owned by HOCO. (more…)
Movieland Wax Museum on Clifton Hill launches brand new exhibit!
Be sure to check out Movieland Wax Museum in Niagara Falls, Canada…they have just launched a brand new entrance exhibit featuring a scene from Pirates of the Caribbean!
Featured are two of the most famous characters from the popular movie series:
Captain Jack Sparrow
Will Turner
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Review your source for Fury details
Posted By JENNIFER PELLEGRINI and RAY SPITERI
The Niagara Parks Commission has rolled out its latest teaser for Niagara’s Fury.
A short video clip - found online at www.niagarasfury .com - shows a weatherman predicting “catastrophic activity … cataclysmic flooding and glacial devastation” in the Niagara Region.
It cuts over to a live-on-the-scene reporter in a blinding snowstorm being swept away.
The screen then asks: Niagara’s Fury. Will you survive? (more…)
