B.C. tourism task force calls for $95-million COVID-19 emergency fund Earlier this month, B.C.’s tourism industry asked the provincial government to fast-track funding to help keep it afloat amid the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.The province’s tourism task force also released a report that said “it is unlikely that demand will return before 2022 and it will take even longer for revenues and employment to return to pre-COVID levels.”“Tourism is a microcosm of B.C.: It has big and small businesses, large revenues and small, a diverse population and a love of our province, but at its core tourism is a people business,” the report reads.“With emergency funding now, we can continue to deliver the benefits of this excellence into the.