Travel bans across British Columbia were lifted, giving a faint sense of hope to a tourism industry once again ravaged by fires. Some areas, like West Kelowna, remain under bans with fires still burning.

Walt Judas, CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of B.C., joins Robin Gill to discuss the impacts these fires have had and what a recovery process might look like.

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