Tofino is normally a tourist mecca in the summer, but it was hit hard by the closure of Highway 4 in June, and now we know just how deep the economic pain went.
cost Tofino $29.7 million in revenue and Ucluelet $14 millionKrissy Montgomery runs Surf Sister Surf School in Tofino and is a member of the chamber. She says the summer months are critical to the viability of many Tofino businesses.
Port Alberni’s chamber of commerce hasn’t calculated how much its businesses lost in June, but president Jolleen Dick says it’s a lot.Montgomery says part of the problem has been staff leaving the remote area in search of busier work, including six employees who left her business in June. The communities are now calling on the province to provide disaster relief funding for small businesses to address losses that rivalled the pandemic.
“The difference being that there's no support, so I have found it personally more challenging than I did COVID.”
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