Destinations
Splash Into Bermuda With Savings
Bermuda is offering travellers a chance to keep their summer alive with a special “Splash Sale.” Some of island's finest resorts and hotels are offering savings of up to 30% for bookings made between Sept. 25 and Oct. 16. The travel window is from Sept. 25 to the end of April 2019. Participating properties include: Aunt Nea’s Inn, an historic Bermudian guest house; Coco Reef Resort; Coral Beach and Tennis Club; Fairmont Southampton; Grotto Bay Beach Resort; the newly renovated Hamilton Princess & Beach Club; Newstead Belmont Hills; The Reefs; Rosewood Tucker’s Point; St....
Tahiti Brings Its Sparkle To Toronto
Tahiti Tourisme and a group of a dozen of its top suppliers, rolled into Toronto last night (Sept. 19) for an informative, intimate and stylish evening of both education and networking for area travel agents. In all about 50 agents were on hand for the event. Those agents had all successfully completely Tahiti Tourisme's travel agent destination specialist training program, called the Tahiti Tiare program. Amalia Meliti, managing director of Tahiti Tourisme, welcomed agents, telling them that the group had been on the road for the past two weeks as they worked their way across...
Germany: Expect The Unexpected
As I stood in front of a bronze statue of a rooster on top of a cat, on top of a dog, on top of a donkey outside of the Town Hall in Bremen, I could almost hear my great grandfather providing sound effects – crowing, barking and meowing – like he used to when I was a child, making for a more lively reading of The Bremen Town Musicians, writes assistant editor, Ann Ruppenstein in this week's digital edition of Travel Courier. Today, there are multiple depictions of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale throughout the city in northwest Germany, but the most iconic remains this statue by...
Goway Offers ‘Wild’ Times in Africa
Goway's Africa program spans a range of wildlife ranging from A(ardvark) to Z(ebra). Moira Smith of Goway's Africa program told a Tuesday Toronto audience that the program features 22 countries, with many of those countries having wildlife-based tourism, including Botswana and its Okavango Delta; Uganda, home to the likes of gorillas and tree-climbing lions; and Zambia, which Smith labelled “pristine and wild.” The Serengeti is another prime wildlife region, she continued. “It's like you're living in National Geographic.” Smith said the “safari experience [in Africa] is...
New Adventure Park Set To Open in Cancun
With an investment of more than $50 million, Grupo Experiencias Xcaret will open its new adventure park, Xavage, this winter. The only one of its kind in Cancun and Riviera Maya, Xavage invites visitors to “challenge all their limits, to free their wild side and face the force of water, travel paths full of challenges and conquer the heights, and to live a challenge full of adrenaline and follow their instincts.” Xavage is the first day park that Experiencias Xcaret has in Cancun, and will complement the adventure offerings of its parks Xplor and Xplor Fuego, by integrating six...
Industry Needs To Embrace Digital
Over nine million new jobs can be created within Asia Pacific destinations over the next five years by fully embracing digital platforms and data driven innovation in the tourism sector, according to “Data & Digital Platforms: Driving Tourism Growth in Asia Pacific” -- a new research report published by PATA and Tourism Economics, an Oxford Economics company, with the support of Google. Commenting on the findings, PATA CEO Dr. Mario Hardy said: “Now more than ever, it is critical that organizations obtain a thorough understanding of current technologies and innovations to make...
Jamaica, Everything Is Definitely All Right
Jamaica's minister of tourism, Edmund Bartlett and its director of tourism, Donovan White were in Canada earlier this month for a series of meetings with the country's travel industry leaders. Along with the Jamaica Tourist Board's regional director for Canada, Philip Rose, the team met with airline executives, tour operators, and other travel trade types. Reaffirming the strong tourism ties between the two countries, Minister Bartlett said, “I would like to thank our Canadian travel partners … for engaging consumers and continuing to promote Jamaica as a prime destination for...
Make It Authentic. Make It Jamaica.
In the first part of a two part series, Jamaica's director of tourism, Donovan White sits down with Canadian Travel Press' executive editor, Bob Mowat to talk about how the popular Caribbean destination plans to play its role in the “finely tuned wheel of global travel and tourism.” Ask Donovan White what his brief is and he'll tell you that it's “to take what is a fantastic product and make it even more fantastic.” The Jamaica Tourist Board's (JTB) director of tourism was in Toronto along with the island's Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett and the JTB's regional director...