Destinations
Porter Partners With Allianz Global Assistance
Porter Airlines has partnered with Allianz Global Assistance in a move that sees Allianz Global Assistance become the carrier’s new travel insurance provider, and offering its customers a variety of insurance products and options. Kevin Jackson, executive vice president and chief commercial officer, Porter Airlines, explained: “We’re giving Porter customers more insurance options, so they can feel comfortable and prepared for their unique travel needs. Porter Airlines. “Porter and Allianz are prepared to provide quality customer support for those looking to add these policies...
TuGo Enhancements Have Clients Covered
TuGo has announced that it has made further enhancements to its Traveller product to address COVID-19-specific concerns. Brad Dance, Chief Customer Officer and THIA Past President, explained that: “TuGo has continued to listen to our customers and evolve our product offering to support them through their pandemic travels. And today, we’re pleased to announce that we’ll cover those who wish to begin cruising again too “Supporting the health, wellness and safety of our customers, and protecting their travel investments, are TuGo’s top priorities.” TuGo’s Emergency...
Huntington Welcomes Zammit As BDM
Huntington Travel Group has named Jennifer Zammit as Manager Business Development for Canada & USA Zammit is a top performing Business Development Manager with an undeniable record of securing key clients, propelling revenue streams, and capturing the partnerships and preferred status with major consortia to drive new business. She has worked in the industry for over 25 years with companies like Bedsonline, Travel Bound, Time Zone One (Marketing Brand USA) and most recently as Business Development Manager – Atlantic Canada & SW Ontario for Globus Family of Brands In her...
More Self-Service Options From ACV
Air Canada Vacations is giving travel agents more self-service tools to allow them to manage their client’s bookings through its website. To help agents save time, ACV has enhanced its self-serve tools through TripBook for bookings made online. The enhancements include the ability to view and print bookings, access location maps, travel guides and e-documents, add payments and seat selections, cancel bookings and edit passenger information. In addition, the tour company has implemented online submission forms for some requests previously only available through its call centre,...
Take A Trip With Ineke
Agents can join Ineke Brinkman and her partner, David Slingerland for a live report from Egypt on Dec. 8. The enterprising Vision Travel advisor has set off, in her own words, in search of Pyramids, Sphinxes and Camels and is inviting agents to register and join her virtually to discover the wonder of Egypt. Brinkman will be sailing on the brand new riverboat, AmaDahlia, so mark your calendar and discover life along the Nile with her. The live report is set for Dec. 8 from 2 pm to 3 pm EST and you can register by going to...
VIA Rail Delivers With Its New Corridor Fleet
VIA Rail Canada (VIA Rail) marked a historic milestone today with the unveiling of the first trainset of its state-of-the-art new fleet that will serve the Québec City – Windsor corridor. With the new test train parked on the platform of the LEED certified Ottawa station behind them, VIA Rail President and Chief Executive Officer, Cynthia Garneau and Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Françoise Bertrand, introduced Canadians to the first of 32 new trains in VIA Rail's new Corridor fleet -- a building block of VIA Rail's modernization program which will help to create the VIA...
COVID-19 Remains A Holiday Travel Concern
While Canadians are eager to see their extended family and friends this holiday season, it’s not without concerns of COVID-19 exposure. That’s one of the top line findings in the PayPal Canada 2021 Holiday Giving Study. In that study, PayPal Canada found that only one in 10 Canadians who responded feel like the holidays will be back to normal this year while majority believe the pandemic will affect their celebrations. It also found four in 10 (39%), plan to celebrate the holidays this year by visiting family or friends at their homes, and a third (30%) will host extended family...
Quick Passage Of Bill C-2 Essential, ACTA Says
ACTA is urging the quick passage of Bill C-2 which was announced last week by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and which will provide further support to the industry in response to COVID-19. If passed, this bill will provide up to 75% wage and rent subsidies to travel agencies who suffered a revenue decline of 40% or greater – but there are some conditions. However, ACTA points out, at this time there is no indication that independent travel agents will benefit from either program. The association is continuing to meet with politicians and key government officials,...