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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Tourism numbers not good … but not as bad as feared
Posted By RAY SPITERI REVIEW STAFF WRITER
Overnight visitation to Niagara Falls this summer was not as nightmarish as many had forecasted, say tourism officials.
But same-day traffic to the Honeymoon Capital was a whole different story.
“Our occupancy for overnight travel was not bad, nowhere near as bad as we had braced for,” said Anna Pierce, executive director at Niagara Falls Tourism.
“But the daytrippers, those numbers were not good. There was a big decrease in the daytrip market -I’m talking double digits, about 10 per cent.”
Pierce’s comments came off the heels of a tourism performance report recently released by the Ontario Ministry of Tourism.
The document, which compared tourism statistics in July 2008 to July 2007, as well as year-to-date figures, paints a gloomy, but expected, picture of the tourism industry provincewide, and to a lesser extent, nationwide. (more…)
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Coming home … with a camera crew
April Mullen films indie comedy downtown
Posted By JOHN LAW
With everyone around her buzzing, April Mullen gives about ten orders - including one to her dad - before changing into a skintight orange jumpsuit straight out of “Charlie’s Angels.”
Two doors down her ‘girls’ are waiting - assorted friends and family members squeezed into fishnets and miniskirts.
It would appear the former Miss Teen Niagara is running a whorehouse on Erie Avenue. Passing cars slow down to take a peek.
But once inside the former Olde Country Antiques building, she’s all business. She’s directing her first movie, a comedy called “GravyTrain,” and the large crew has gathered to shoot a complex scene in tight quarters.
Stars Colin Mochrie, Jennifer Dale, Kyle Schmid and several extras are crammed into a hot, musty room transformed into a bordello. The carpets are discoloured from mold. The ceiling tiles bulge from a leaking roof. Appropriate for a movie taking place in the ‘70s, because that was probably the last time this place was liveable.
Mullen, who also stars in the movie (hence the jumpsuit), tells one of the sexed-up girls how to enter the room: “Michelle, you’re going to saunter in and be really … buttsy.” A demonstration follows. (more…)
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Niagara attractions among finalists for tourism awards
Posted By ALISON LANGLEY
Several local tourism operations are in the running for top awards by the Tourism Industry Association of Canada.
Thirty six companies and individuals have been selected as finalists in 12 categories for the 2008 National Awards for Tourism Excellence.
Great Wolf Lodge is up for the Delta Hotels New Business of the Year Award and the Niagara Parks Commission is one of three entrants in the Parks Canada Sustainable Tourism Award.
The awards recognize and foster Canadian tourism excellence.
The awards will be handed out Nov. 5 in Quebec as part of Canada’s Tourism Leadership Summit.
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Source:wgrz.com
A Rainbow Over Niagara Falls?
For over ten years now, New York City billionaire Howard Milstein has owned 140 acres of land in Niagara Falls, and virtually all of it remains as vacant today as they day he obtained it.
All over the Falls, you see signs for his company-Niagara Falls Redevelopment. Milstein’s holdings include the Native American museum The Turtle which has been closed for years, and sits just steps from the state park, as well as the closed Nabisco plant. (more…)
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