Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, April 23, 2024 5:37AM EDT
Maureen Gordon has weathered hard times before.
She and her husband began running ecotourism outfit Maple Leaf Adventures out of Vancouver about a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks devastated international travel in 2001.
The rebound was relatively quick. Fallout from COVID-19 has proven much more prolonged.
“The pandemic of course was incredibly tumultuous and scary, as it was, I think, for most tour businesses in Canada,” said Gordon, who runs week-long sojourns on a schooner, converted tug boat and catamaran along the Pacific coast.
“It was a really traumatic time. We couldn’t operate at all through various government…
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