Tourism businesses from coast-to-coast rely in a big way on the summer months for business that will help sustain them for the year.
This year travel businesses in our great nation need our help even more.
During the good times, many businesses need to earn around 50 per cent to 60 per cent of their revenue between June and September in order to survive.
However, this year only half of local travel businesses are expected to do better than last summer. This stems from the fact that the vaccination rollout has been slower than expected and with new rules, guidelines, and lockdowns still being announced, particularly in Ontario.
The mantra right now is Save Summer, and I am taking the campaign one step further with a more national voice, Save Summer, Save Canada.
“This summer is going to make it or break it for people,” says Leslie Bruce, who is the President and CEO of Banff & Lake Louise Tourism.
But there is good news everyone – businesses – small, medium, and large – are stepping up to get more Canucks traveling at home this summer.
So, if you are itching to hop on a plane and check out off-the-beaten-path locations or busy city centres, then call your travel agent and book the trip of your lifetime here at home.
We have everything in Canada – mountains, lakes, oceans, trails, scenic views, history, culture, and more!
Canadian airlines help get us ready for take-off
The good news is that the vaccine rollout is expected to be more aggressive in the next few months, which is why some Canadian airlines have been revamping their domestic schedules, adding new routes, and, in some cases, new fleets.
A case in point is Flair Airlines announcing that they are expanding its fleet to capitalize on the new demand from domestic travel, while Swoop just announced that its adding flights from Abbotsford, Kelowna, Edmonton, Toronto, Hamilton and Winnipeg.
Flair’s ambitious expansion focuses first on growing its domestic network. Flair’s network will expand beginning on May 1st as service is added to Ottawa, ON; Kitchener-Waterloo, ON; Halifax, NS; and Saint John, NB. Flair will add service in June to Thunder Bay, ON; and Charlottetown, PE; in July to Victoria, BC; and in August to Abbotsford, BC.
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Flair anticipates tourism and travel to begin restarting in the Spring and Summer, and the focus on domestic service in 2021 enables the ULCC to provide more low fare options across Canada.
“We strongly support the need for restricting non-essential travel as Canada works to bend the curve. Flair was one of the first airlines to reduce our network and focus exclusively on essential domestic travel,” says Jones. “We are confident, as travel returns, there is a strong market for low fare travel choices from a socially responsible Canadian airline. Flair’s ULCC business model doesn’t have the overhead and costs associated with legacy organizations and networks, and this allows our efficiencies to be passed along in our pricing.”
Flair is one example of a travel business helping travel consumers and other travel businesses while we all pivot.
Go, Canada Go! Why we need to support local this summer
First, traveling at home is an amazing experience. On either side of our country, you can go whale watching, and in between you can enjoy an endless list of things to do and see.
Our nation’s tourism industry needs traveller consumers spending their money at home too. According to Statistics Canada, our tourism sector’s GDP (gross domestic product) shrank by almost half last year, compared with a 5.4 per cent drop in the overall economy that same year. Tourism jobs dropped by almost 30 per cent.
Destination Canada, a well-known organization that promotes local tourism, has reported that the situation facing Canada’s tourism industry is far worse than the combined effects of SARS, the Global Financial Crisis, and 911.
Destination Canada is promoting local travel for 2021.
“We are all fortunate to live in this incredibly beautiful and diverse country with breathtaking experiences from coast to coast—now is the time to plan on exploring our backyards when safe to do so. This is how each and every Canadian can enjoy our country while meaningfully helping the hundreds of thousands of people whose livelihoods enhance our quality of life in Canada,” says Marsha Walden, President and CEO of Destination Canada.
Travel is expected to be better than it was last year, but let’s all make it even better this year – I mean extra-special.
Our patriotic efforts will help our economy and it will finally put lots of smiles back on people’s faces again.
Image credits: Main Image: FlyFlair Facebook/2021; and iStock.
