While Tourism Barrie is facing economic difficulties amid the coronavirus crisis, the organization is looking toward the future, hoping for a speedy recovery.
Tourism Barrie has asked the City of Barrie, Ont., to consider allowing it to keep 100 per cent of the municipal accommodation tax (MAT) collected between January and September, according to a city memo. “Tourism Barrie has identified that it would not survive the summer and have to shut down operations and renege on outstanding commitments in destination marketing and management programs if it were not to receive the funding support from 100 per cent of the MAT from January to September,” Stephannie Schlichter, Barrie’s economic and creative development director, said in the memo to