Beth Potter, president of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada, says there are direct effects for certain tourist areas when bad weather hits.
But she says the biggest challenge is that many international visitors see a headline about wildfires in one part of Canada and don't understand that they are having no impact on most of the country. Potter says she heard from tourism operators in southwestern Ontario last summer about cancellations due to fires largely more than 3,500 kilometres away in British Columbia.
She also says that some operators have been finding insurance more expensive — if they can even secure it — as the risks from severe weather force the insurance industry to rethink costs. Tourism Minister Soraya Martínez Ferrada says there is no"miracle" cure, but government and industry must prepare for the worst because climate change isn't going away.
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