by Andrew Hempstead | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog, British Columbia, COVID, Travel with children
I cancelled all work-related travel for this year, but our family also wanted some ocean time, so we decided to head out to Vancouver Island and stay in a self-contained property, thereby minimizing risk to ourselves or others. Driving would have entailed food and gas...
by Andrew Hempstead | May 25, 2020 | Banff, Blog, Canadian Rockies, COVID
Due to the pandemic, tourism in 2020 in the Canadian Rockies is shaping up very differently than usual. I am assuming that visitors will not be allowed to enter Canada for much of this year, meaning that the millions of tourists from the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the...
by Andrew Hempstead | Apr 18, 2020 | Banff, Blog, COVID
Riding out Covid 19 in Banff is no different to doing so anywhere else in the world. But there is a big difference for the town itself. As a tourist resort that attracts millions of visitors annually, most of the residents rely on the tourism industry for an income,...
