The trend of domestic and other international markets making up for a dip in American visitation was the story of this summer’s tourism season in Niagara Falls.

A seven per cent decrease in revenue from U.S. visitors was more than offset by 16 and 27 per cent increases from domestic and other international markets, respectively, said Niagara Parks chief executive officer David Adames.

“Those bigger percentages take that amount to make up the seven per cent because the American market is so big for us — it still comprises 39 per cent of our revenue,” he said.

The largest international gains came from the U.K., France, South Korea, Australia and Italy, said Adames. He said those figures are from April through July and added August numbers are not yet available.

“Overall, we had a very po

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