As summer winds down, tourism operators across the province are looking at staggering losses from a season constricted by the COVID-19 pandemic. "They're not necessarily staying in downtown Vancouver," Chwin said, adding that downtown businesses were also hit by the lack of workers as businesses moved to remote work. Postcards at a souvenir shop on Robson Street in downtown Vancouver, pictured on June 24. Brenda Baptiste, the chair of Indigenous Tourism BC, says the businesses in her organization have also faced a "very tough summer." "Basically it's about working with Indigenous tourism to ensure they've got everything they need to move forward and keeping Indigenous tourism as an industry, a focus of what B.C.

Source: CBC News September 07, 2020 22:07 UTC