Northwest Territories Tourism, as the advocacy association of the tourism industry in the Northwest Territories, is extremely concerned with the bureaucratic hold-up of the lodge permits required by the Government of the Northwest Territories to enable the opening of Frontier Lodge in Lutsel K’e.
It is our understanding that the bureaucratic hold-up is related to a change that occurred in the Tourism Act in 2007. The Government of the Northwest Territories recognized in 2013 that there were issues with implementing the 2007 change, and again in 2017 the issues with the implementation of the act were raised. This has been a long-standing issue that remains unresolved, without a policy in place for remote lodges.
NWT Tourism is advocating for an exemption to be issued to Frontier Lodge while the GNWT resolves their internal policy issue.
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