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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 load. Try refreshing your browser, or Finding a way forward: Tourism conference comes on heels of a '...

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 load. Try refreshing your browser, or Finding a way forward: Tourism conference comes on heels of a '...

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 projects include campground and recreational-vehicle site development, alpine and mountain bike trai...

On a small island in British Columbia's 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 Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and B.C. came to quarantine and before they left for...