RCI | English : Arctic Tourism and the Pandemic

We talk policy making during the pandemic with Yukon’s Tourism Minister Jeanie McLean. https://www.rcinet.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Arctic_Tourism_Episode_4_Policy_Making_in_the_Pandemic-MV.mp3

Peter Magill, the Tourism & Economic Development Coordinator in Hay River in Canada’s Northwest Territories, talks us through the town’s ‘Haycation’ campaign and what other communities might learn from its experience. https://www.rcinet.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Arctic_Tourism_episode_3_a_northern_town_tries_the_staycation-MV.mp3

George Angohiatok, head of Cambridge Bay’s Ekaluktutiak Hunters & Trappers Organization in Nunavut talks about the economic consequences of the tourism shutdown on hunters and how the community is pulling together to get each other through the pandemic. https://www.rcinet.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Arctic_Tourism_Episode_2_Its_a_scary_situation_were_living_in_today-MV.mp3

Keith Henry, president & CEO of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada, on why northern Indigenous tourism businesses have been hit so hard by the pandemic and what it’s going to take to build back. https://www.rcinet.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Arctic_Tourism_Episode_1_Situation_critical_in_the_North-MV.mp3