BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 15, 2020
Rural Maine’s tourism businesses and host communities are struggling with massive, unexpected shocks: the COVID-19 pandemic and a deep economic recession in its wake. Northern Outdoors, a leading outdoor adventure business, and the Maine Woods Consortium, a catalyst for tourist destination development, are implementing resilience strategies. ~ David Vail, emeritus professor of economics and former director of environmental studies at Bowdoin College