A Crisis Response for Wilderness Tourism

• Main Author: Coates, Ken
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Churchill River
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10294/12284

View archived Policy Briefs; The Policy Brief is a digital and print publication, written by JSGS scholars and leading policy experts, to provide context and perspective on important public issues and to further discussion and debate within the public sector. It provides policy makers and those interested in policy formation with timely and expert analysis, observations and potential policy approaches to relevant issues concerning the public. Few, if any, areas of the Canadian economy have been hit as hard as tourism, particularly the kind of adventure recreation for which this country is justifiably famous. From wildlife excursions in the High Arctic to white water rafting expeditions in the Rocky Mountains, fishing trips to Northern Quebec and Northern Ontario, canoeing trips along the Churchill River, and kayaking cultural journeys in Haida Gwaii, Canada has emerged one of the world's most diverse and exciting destinations for wilderness adventurers. Until 2020, that is.