A coalition of groups representing Metro Vancouver’s tourism and hospitality sectors want to see a freeze on evictions of commercial tenants.
The Metro Vancouver Tourism and Hospitality Response and Recovery Task Force, which is made up of 50 groups in the travel and tourism sector, pitched the concept Thursday.
B.C.’s tourism industry has been hard hit by the pandemic lockdown, shuttering thousands of restaurants while hotels and other businesses that rely on the postponed cruise season and international visitors have seen revenue dry up. “Unfortunately, many of the initiatives which governments have launched have been inaccessible to most of us in the travel and tourism sector, and the biggest issue for our members — that of