Binational Tourism Alliance Hosts First Of Many Roundtables
The Binational Transportation Roundtable will cover an array of topics with a variety of speakers. Topics planned are on the existing transportation plans, alternative transit methods, the Niagara bike train, signage challenges, border crossing and summer construction, and new legislation that will affect the travel industry. Arlene White, executive director of the BTA, says, “It’s an opening to get the tourism industry more involved with transportation issues.”
The BTA is an organization dedicated to eradicating the barriers to cross-border tourism development in the US/Canada. White says that, “Especially with tourism, if you can’t move people easily around your area, then you aren’t as competitive as other regions.”
The roundtable will feature the following speakers and their topics: John Slobodzian of the Ontario Ministry of Transportation – Niagara-GTA Corridor Project; Hal Morse of the Greater Buffalo-Niagara Regional Transportation Council – WNY Transportation Updates; Justin Lafontaine – Toronto-Niagara Bike Train Initiative; Robert Rokoczy of the NFTA – Buffalo & Niagara Falls/NY Airports; and Eric Flora of the Niagara Region – Niagara Transportation Strategy Update.
It begins at 8:30am and runs till 11am and is free to members of the BTA, but otherwise is $20 to partake. The roundtable also features an audience Q&A from 10-11am, allowing for questions to be asked of the wide range of transportation experts available. The address of the Edgewaters Tap & Grill is 6345 Niagara Parkway @ Murray in Niagara Falls, Ontario. You can find more information on this event as well as the BTA at their website.
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MattCarlucci
I was lucky enough to meet Arlene White as she was a guest speaker at an event I helped organize. Her wealth of knowledge and passion for binational tourism is unsurpassed by anyone in the area. If you truly want to learn a lot about making our borders more accessible while still safe, I suggest you listen to the BTA and it's panel. Anyone who crosses the borders at any time would benefit.
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chris69
you want tourism then:
connect the light rail to the airport
join the Great Lakes Cruising Coalition
connect the light rail to Niagara Falls
build a new convention and conference center centered around a rewatered ohio basin
rebuilt the erie canal wharf
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