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Old Aug 19, 2020, 4:50 pm
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yvrcnx
 
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An organization called "Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable" has been trying to open up tourism since June without any success, even with the National Airlines Council of Canada promoting this as well.

https://time-to-travel.ca/

Currently Canada is not even open domestically to each other with all of the Atlantic Provinces and 2 of the Northern Territories being off limit to the rest of Canada.
I wouldn't be surprised if this stays the way for the rest of the year.

The approach here seems to be very similar to the one of New Zealand and Australia, 2 other commonwealth countries, with the difference that we are at least allowed to leave Canada but have to self-isolate for 2 weeks upon returning.

While numbers are going up significantly in most European nations, hospitalization and death rates seem to be significantly down. Hopefully this trend will remain and lead to relaxation of restrictions despite higher numbers - this is me hoping and dreaming but something will have to happen or the tourism industry will be completely destroyed by the end of the year, in most places it already is, at least in the near and mid term.
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