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Monday, April 19: A Tank Away Shayna Seymour is dreaming of Nantucket: the annual Daffodil Festival, the shops on Main Street, and dining at island restaurants Share Updated: 1:17 PM EDT Apr 16, 2021 Monday, April 19: A Tank Away Shayna Seymour is dreaming of Nantucket: the annual Daffodil Festival, the shops on Main Street, and dining at island restaurants Share Updated: 1:17 PM EDT Apr 16, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript Uh, spring in New England, its hard to...

SAMPLER: Marlboroughs unusual law featured by WCVB-TV Mary Wenzel Marlborough’s Silly String law once again made the news when Chronicle, a WCVB-TV news magazine, traveled to the city to conduct research on unusual town and city regulations and ordinances across the state of Massachusetts. Marlborough Mayor Arthur Vigeant addressed the Chronicle cameras in front of the Marlborough City Hall and explained that Silly String became a nuisance during one of the city’s annual Labor Day parades. ...

Three little ferries chugged out of pandemic hibernation on Monday with payloads of happy locals and a cautious optimism that a tourism season of some form is on the horizon. The Victoria Harbour. . .

“Obviously we’re not expecting a wild influx of tourists, but we wanted to be out there and be all about our local community,” said Victoria Harbour Ferry general manager Barry Hobbis. “We want to get locals out on the water to relax and enjoy the views, take the kids to Fisherman’s Wharf or travel up the Gorge. A lot of people have been at home for months.” The company will launch more of their vessels as demand increases, including one of its four electric boats for tours of th...

‘Struggle to come back will take years’: Vancouver Island Tourism CEO SHARE ON: @NaturalWild66 Instagram Of all B.C.’s economic sectors impacted by COVID-19, you could argue tourism and hospitality has been hit the hardest. The numbers show just how much of a downturn the sector has taken because of the pandemic. In a pre-COVID year, tourism generates $3.5-billion and supports 70,000 jobs in the Vancouver Island region But domestic overnight visitation to the island is down 43 percent, s...

Article content As the annual B.C. Tourism Industry Conference was set to begin in Victoria last March, organizers decided to tack on an extra session about the COVID-19 virus rapidly spreading across the globe. “We were feeling a bit nervous,” recalled Walt Judas, CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of B.C. “We thought we’d be in a for a difficult three or four months. In no way did we anticipate we’d still be in this a year later.” We apologize, but this video has failed to lo...

Article content As the annual B.C. Tourism Industry Conference was set to begin in Victoria last March, organizers decided to tack on an extra session about the COVID-19 virus rapidly spreading across the globe. “We were feeling a bit nervous,” recalled Walt Judas, CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of B.C. “We thought we’d be in a for a difficult three or four months. In no way did we anticipate we’d still be in this a year later.” We apologize, but this video has failed to lo...

Government is being urged to help one of the industries hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Local tourism projects bolstered by provincial funding SHARE ON: Supplied by the Province of B.C. Over 50 new tourism projects across B.C., including on Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast, are getting a financial leg-up from the province. They’re getting funding through the Community Economic Recovery Infrastructure Program’s destination development stream. The province says it creates jobs and develops infrastructure that will attract visitors to B.C. when travel resumes.  Approved ...

On a small island in British Columbias Fraser River is a campsite packed with Canadian snowbirds who found refuge when the border with the United States was shut because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike other years, all 118 full-service sites at Fort Camping in Langley are occupied, said Marilyn Stone, the manager of guest services at the campsite. It started in March, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canadians around the world to come home, Stone said. Travellers from Nova Scotia, New...