A West 91大黄鸭-based Indigenous business was selected as one of nine recipients for a $10,000 grant from WestJet and the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC).
Indigenous World Winery was named a recipient of the 2020-21 WestJet/ITAC grant initiative, which is designed to support nationwide Indigenous tourism businesses that have struggled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
鈥淲e are pleased to be able to support these Indigenous businesses as they work their way to recovery,鈥� said Angela Avery, the executive vice president of WestJet.
鈥淲estJet is a proud partner of ITAC, and is committed to advancing reconciliation by growing opportunities for indigenous entrepreneurs and sharing with the global travel industry the importance of Indigenous tourism, a unique, important and developing sector of Canadian tourism.鈥�
Two other B.C. Indigenous businesses were also named as grant recipients: Vancouver鈥檚 Talaysay Tours and Moccasin Trails in Kamloops.
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