Staycations have helped Ontario’s battered tourism sector rebound — but when it comes to recovery, there’s still a long road ahead. “We’re far from out of the woods yet.'
still deters visitors “because it’s a perception of whether Canada is open or not. And compared to other countries, particularly our G7 rivals — the UK, Italy — who’ve gotten rid of vaccine mandates to get into the country, we’re obviously still lagging behind them. When people are making decisions at the dinner table when they’re going to travel, they want to have a risk-free and bureaucratic-free experience as possible and Canada is unfortunately not at the top of that list right now.
Manvir Hundal, press secretary for newly appointed tourism minster Neil Lumsden, said “our government has taken serious action to help the tourism and hospitality sectors following the impacts of the pandemic, including the Ontario Staycation Tax Credit to encourage Ontarians to support local tourism.”
“But it’s still just over 10 per cent below what we saw in 2019,” she said, noting that major conferences and events have yet to rebound. The tourism industry is not expected to recover until 2025 or 2026, and an ongoing labour shortage has also added to the sector’s woes. However, he added, “throughout the pandemic, the business has been almost exclusively domestic leisure,” which plays a big part, but not enough on its own.
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