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February 11, 2021 Arctic Tourism and the Pandemic #4 Policy Making in the Pandemic
We talk policy making during the pandemic with Yukon’s Tourism Minister Jeanie McLean.

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21 min
February 10, 2021 Arctic Tourism and the Pandemic #3 A northern town tries the staycation
Peter Magill, the Tourism & Economic Development Coordinator in Hay River in Canada’s Northwest Territories, talks us through the town’s ‘Haycation’ campaign and what other communities might learn from its experience.

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13 min
February 09, 2021 Arctic Tourism and the Pandemic #2 It’s a scary situation we’re living in today
George Angohiatok, head of Cambridge Bay’s Ekaluktutiak Hunters & Trappers Organization in Nunavut talks about the economic consequences of the tourism shutdown on hunters and how the community is pulling together to get each other through the pandemic.

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18 min
February 08, 2021 Arctic Tourism and the Pandemic #1 Situation critical in the North
Keith Henry, president & CEO of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada, on why northern Indigenous tourism businesses have been hit so hard by the pandemic and what it’s going to take to build back.

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24 min

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Prior to the pandemic, Arctic regions and chambers of commerce around the world had increasingly touted tourism as a key economic tool. It’s an industry that provides jobs for a variety of education levels, promotes small-scale entrepreneurship and creates sustainable development lacking in many of the expensive and hard-to-get-to regions of the North.