As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect Canada, large gatherings and travel are being discouraged, impacting the tourism industry in southern Alberta.
The International Air Show announced earlier this week they won’t be going ahead this year, which is a disappointment as the organizers also postponed the event in 2019. “It’s been a bittersweet experience, it’s been… a long process of making that decision,” said Stacy Green with the International Air Show Association.
The Air Show welcomed an average of 8,000 people each year in 2013, 2015, and 2017. Green says they were very busy planning the 2020 event, but knows postponing another year was the right decision. “We thought it would probably be in our best interests, as well as in the