Destinations
Air Canada Salutes its Black Employees
Air Canada is marking Black History Month by featuring the achievements and contributions of its Black employees to aviation, including an inaugural, Black History celebratory flight. Flight AC914 from Toronto to Fort Lauderdale and return flight AC917, operated with a wide-body Airbus A330-300 aircraft, is being flown with a Black crew of two pilots and eight flight attendants. Air Canada's Black History celebratory flight was also planned and supported by Black managers and employees on the ground and behind the scenes. Arielle Meloul-Wechsler, Executive Vice President, Chief...
Fairly Tale Weddings, Honeymoons With Disney
Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings & Honeymoons will offer even more ways to celebrate a Disney wedding in 2022, including new venues, offerings and fashions. The brand is an industry leader in bringing fairy tales to life through weddings, honeymoons, vow renewals and anniversaries at Disney locations around the globe, while providing couples with a personalized experience through products, services and locations that only Disney can provide. Korri McFann, marketing director for Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings & Honeymoons, said: “At Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings &...
Insight Vacations Launches New Specialist Course
Insight Vacations has launched its new and improved Insight Specialist eLearning course that’s specifically designed to help travel advisors sell the premium guided tour brand. The enhanced training will increase travel advisors’ earning potential by ensuring they have the online tools to close their sales. The course is now streamlined into one learning path with three modules and advisors can choose to complete the modules in the order most relevant to their needs. Whether a novice or an Insight Vacations Specialist, they will benefit with better sales from learning about the...
Remove The Obstacles
A group of Canadian doctors are reinforcing sentiments from the medical community across the country and joining the Canadian Travel and Tourism Roundtable (The Roundtable) in calling on the federal government to remove unnecessary and non-science-based obstacles to international travel, such as the pre-departure and on-arrival PCR tests for fully vaccinated travellers. Canada's current COVID-19 travel restrictions are obsolete and out of step with other countries worldwide, including the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Denmark, which have removed all testing requirements at their...
Awake Your Sense Of Wander In St. Kitts
The new CEO of the St. Kitts Tourism Authority (SKTA) has big plans for the destination and Canada and travel agents here have a role to play. In conversation with Canadian Travel Press, Ellison ‘Tommy’ Thompson observes that: “St. Kitts is an incredibly sophisticated and beautiful destination that visitors time and again say is the ‘best kept secret’ of the Caribbean. So, taking St. Kitts from “under the radar” to “must visit” is at the top of my priority list.” Thompson said that: “My overall goal of course is to increase leisure travel and to implement creative...
One Of The Bright Spots
The Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) says there has been a silver lining for this country's tourist trade during a long-lasting coronavirus pandemic cloud. TIAC president Beth Potter told a Feb. 10 webinar that the pandemic has prompted many in this country who normally holiday abroad to consider Canada vacations, with pandemic-related restrictions often making international travel tricky at best. "One of the bright spots" is that more of us are discovering "Canada has amazing things to offer," she said. Canada consistently runs up a travel deficit but...
Finding New Opportunities In A Challenging Environment
Richard Smart admits that: “While there will certainly be challenges ahead, I believe there is also reason to be optimistic.” In the latest issue of Canadian Travel Press, the president & CEO of the Travel Industry Council of Ontario’s (TICO) observed that: “We’ve seen that consumers are eager to travel and that consumer protection can be a competitive advantage to leverage.” Smart told CTP that: “It’s hard to believe that we are coming up to the two-year anniversary of the pandemic. This past fall, there were glimmers of hope that the beginning of the recovery...
Swoop Growing Fleet, Expanding Network
Swoop is growing its fleet from 10 to 16 aircraft with the acquisition of six new Boeing MAX-8 aircraft, confirming that it will begin receiving all six aircraft this summer as the airline rapidly expands to meet peak season travel demand. Along with growing its fleet, Swoop will significantly expand its domestic network, adding non-stop flights to Newfoundland and increasing service in Atlantic Canada. It will also add six new routes and capacity in Ontario and the Prairies in preparation for Canada's busy summer travel season. The airline's announced expansion comes as it reports...