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The Alberta government will invest an additional $22 million this year into the province’s tourism industry in an effort to help the struggling sector recover from a year of devastating, COVID-19-related financial losses.
The province’s latest budget commits $66 million over the next three years toward the plan, part of a goal to double Alberta’s tourism revenues by 2030. The hard-hit sector has been marked as a key piece of Alberta’s economic recovery plan, but its return to even pre-pandemic levels is heavily reliant on worldwide vaccine distribution and travel restrictions.
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