The depth of the crisis means it will be a long recovery for the tourist industry with potential shock waves for other areas of the economy, says Destination Canada, a Crown corporation whose mandate is to promote domestic tourism. The agency compiled new data for the report to be released Monday on an industry that is linked to one in 10 Canadian jobs, Destination Canada says.
Overall, the number of "active" businesses -- one that is operating and has employees -- in the sector declined by nine per cent between January and November of last year. Half a million people in the tourism industry lost their jobs in 2020, Walden said. To compile the data used in the report, Destination Canada conducted original research and relied on information from government and industry reports, Walden said.
"Canadians have been sitting at home, saving a lot of money this year, which is great for individuals and not so great for the economy," Walden said. "We really need them to get out there and travel the country and spend money across the country once it's safe to do so." Guidatour sometimes arranged more than 100 tours per day, but during the pandemic there were often days when it didn't give a single one, Vermette said.
Vermette said her staff have been working on developing new programming, some of which could also appeal to locals, in order to capitalize on any uptick in travel later this year. With the rollout of the vaccine, Vermette said she was hopeful that Guidatour would have more customers this year, but she noted that sales still won't be close to what the company saw in 2019.
Everything is in crisis. EVERYTHING.
Mabe the world is collapsing, but it doesn't matter because i have never felt safer 😷🌡💉
Finally, a word of wisdom. I am grateful for this time because better than the tourism crisis, globalism has finally collapsed; thank goodness for that. Barbaric bankers & media tried hard to dissolve nationhood with inter-mixing & their global ecopolitics but not anymore.
We could have avoid this and maintained a healthy domestic tourism market, had we believed science and not Tam's imagination of racist concern.
Worse than the murder of thousands of innocent people?🤷🏻♀️
No sympathy because they ripped so many people off during pandemic.
Who could have seen this coming? 🤦♀️
Canada media in a nutshell Day 1 'forced quarantines are a conspiracy, it's far right lies!' Day 200 'forced quarantines are for your own good, praise Trudeau!' Day 400 'tourism in shambles, Trudeau to grant freedoms he took away in first place, our hero!'
Maybe stealing 2k bucks from travelers and having Trudeau get thugs to sexually assault them in hotel prisons was not a great plan- remember when media banded together to tell us forced quarantines were a conspiracy theory?
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There will be a travel boom and Canada needs to attract travelers. Most people are itching to travel.
Thanks to planes, the world has COVID. Did I get my travel refund, NO. Do I care about tourism, NO. When the dust falls, there will be someone there to pick up the pieces. Now stop your whining!
You can thank all levels of government and MSM. Shame!
Covid didn’t shut down everything government did.
So when does the media stop repetitive talks about vaccines and start pressuring our Leaders about how all the unemployed ppl will feed and house themselves in the future?
Maybe it's time to revamp the 'tourism' industry. Especially if COVID is going to either evolve into the common flu or go the opposite way and become deadly.
CTVToronto Yeah it’s hurting now but will explode once restrictions are lifted
It will be back in swing by mid summer if provinces can get vaccines out and open the borders