Canada's tourism industry is facing a reckoning as the summer season starts, with many businesses facing either complete shut down or limited operations because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Further west, the Stratford Festival attracts around half a million visitors, both domestic and international, to the small city of Stratford in southwestern Ontario. In an open letter, a coalition of travel and tourism businesses called the Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable says that the federal and provincial governments must ease public health lockdown measures to save the industry's summer season. The Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable is also calling for an end to the mandatory 14-day quarantine period for those entering Canada. Ontario's Stratford Festival normally hosts 500,000 paying customers each season, but it has cancelled the entire 2020 season due to COVID-19.

Source: CBC News June 28, 2020 18:29 UTC