Destinations
Lending A Helping Hand To Helping Hands Jamaica
Canadian travel agents joined forces with the Canadian-based Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation (HHJF) to help build a preschool and kindergarten in Linstead, St. Catherine, Jamaica earlier this month. A philanthropic team of donors and supporters including Kisko Products employees, travel advisors and other supporters assisted in the construction of Bourne Gordon’s Pre-school and Kindergarten. The five-classroom build was completed with an office area, sick bay and staff and student bathrooms. The school structure also boasts a kitchen stocked with appliances and amenities such as...
The Signs Are There
Destination Canada released its Quarterly Tourism Snapshot -- which provides an ongoing monitor of the performance of Canada’s tourism sector – and it found that Canada’s tourism industry is showing strong signs of recovery in the second quarter. Some of the key findings of the report include: Travel to Canada is in demand, with Google search from international markets exceeding 2019 levels. Buoyed by hotel occupancy in regions exceeding their 2019 levels and lifts in urban areas closing in on their pre-pandemic performance, average hotel occupancy in June 2022 for Canada...
Air Canada Ramps Up Service To Korea
An increase in frequencies is upcoming for the schedule of flights that Air Canada operates between Canada and South Korea. The airline currently operates four flights per week between Toronto YYZ and Seoul-Incheon ICN. That is set to increase to up to five flights per week for September and October. Meanwhile, the Air Canada schedule of flights between Seoul and Vancouver YVR operates on a daily basis. The Vancouver route gets a B777-300, while a 787-900 Dreamliner is on the Toronto routing. Air Canada brought news of its services to Vancouver recently, in partnership with the...
What Keeps You Up At Night?
If you ask, Joel Ostrov, president – Canada East for Direct Travel what keeps him up at night, he’ll tell you: “My only concern for the future of this industry is the number of great people the travel industry as a whole has lost during the pandemic, many of whom will never return to the business … As an industry, the travel sector needs to find a way to attract new and younger talent to this wonderful business.” Ostrov also weighed in on whether the industry’s recovery was going the way that he’d expected it to go. He told Canadian Travel Press that: “In some ways,...
What’s Taking So Long?
The latest government and industry actions; continued action to advance the rights of travellers; collaborating with partners to find solutions; increasing staffing for security screening; and ArriveCAN were all covered in a recent update on action and progress made on reducing traveller wait times and delays across Canadian airports were all covered in an update delivered this week by Transport Minister, Omar Alghabra; Health Minister, Jean-Yves Duclos; Public Safety Minister, Marco Mendicino; and Tourism Minister and Associate Minister of Finance, Randy Boissonnault. The ministers...
International Numbers Continue To Grow: StatsCan
Statistics Canada reports that in June 2022, the number of international arrivals to Canada continued to increase, but still remained less than 2019 levels, before the pandemic. Residents of overseas countries made over 13 times more trips to Canada in June 2022 compared with the same month in 2021, over half (52.2%) of the trips taken in June 2019. Likewise, US residents took more than 1.7 million trips to Canada in June 2022. This too was over 13 times the number of trips seen in June 2021, and represented 57.5% of the trips in June 2019. Canadian residents...
Canada Jetlines Set For Take Off In September
Canada Jetlines Operations Ltd. will begin operations out of its travel hub at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ), with its first scheduled route into YYC Calgary International Airport next month (September). Set for its debut on Sept. 22, 2022, Canada Jetlines will begin operations with biweekly flights operating Thursdays and Sundays out of Toronto (YYZ) to Calgary (YYC) from 07:55am – 10:10am EST and returns from Calgary (YYC) to Toronto (YYZ) 11:40am – 17:20 EST. Frequency will increase to three flights per week, Thursdays through Sundays, starting Oct. 13. This...
Trevello (TPI) Is Tops With Uplift In Q3
Trevello (TPI) network has been chosen as the “Top Agent Partner - Q3” by Uplift. Travel Advisors Josephine Cruz and Jonathan Miguel took first and fourth 1st place, respectively. Midway into the quarter, Trevello is seeing exponential growth in the Canadian market. The group’s partnership with Uplift and its novel payment programs has allowed travel advisors to offer flexible payment options to consumers. Upgrades and add-ons are now more accessible for clients, and because Uplift pays for the file in full at the time of booking, it reduces the burden on advisors to track...