"One of the first hotels to cater to storm tourism is the Wickaninnish Inn located in Tofino, British Columbia. Situated on a prime piece of coastline on the western edge of Vancouver Island, Tofino overlooks an expanse of the Pacific Ocean so unobstructed the next land mass is Japan. This allows weather patterns an extraordinary amount of time and space to gather force before battering Tofino. And the results, as Wickaninnish Inn's managing director Charles McDiarmid explains, are spectacular: “Huge winds, thirty-foot waves, and driving rain; Mother Nature comes alive. You can hear the wind through the trees. Absolutely epic.”" - Todd Plummer
