As part of the ongoing national movement that the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) is working on as part of its Five Year National Strategy called “The Path Forward”, a new organization serving the Nova Scotia Indigenous population has recently formed over the past four months to establish the Nova Scotia Indigenous Tourism Enterprise Network (NSITEN).

NSITEN in Mi’kmaw is also the word for “Understand”, the word that ITAC’s Nova Scotia Regional Representative Robert Bernard woke up to one morning after a dream he had on how to best move forward with this initiative. “Creating understanding with mainstream society ...