Hotels
Eco-Friendly Stays The Way To Go
With 2017 being designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations, it's fitting that Canadians are changing the way they travel. The recent Sustainable Travel Report commissioned by Booking.com found the number of Canadian travellers staying in an eco-friendly accommodation at least once could almost double this year with 61% expressing this intention versus only 36% who stayed in one or more last year. When it comes to making luxury adjustments in order to stay somewhere eco-friendly, the vast majority of Canadians are more than happy...
A Real Personality
Carlo Trinidad, business development manager for AMResorts, was awarded with the first-ever “Personality of the Year” award during Uniglobe’s Western Canada Conference lunch in Richmond, BC recently. Uniglobe’s Western Canada Conference is hosted annually, bringing in top industry leaders and hosts award ceremonies, educational presentations, talking point sessions and forecasting trending topics. With 20 years of industry experience, Trinidad serves as one of three BDMs in Canada, with a focus on the West. He develops and manages relationships with key travel agents, tour...
The Perfect Hotel Stay
More travellers than ever before are booking their trips based on peer recommendations and consumer behaviour is showing that reviews are becoming even more important than the traditional hotel star ratings when booking their trips. However, with so much information out there, it can be difficult to figure out what's important. Hotels.com, with over 25 million guest reviews on its website, took a deep-dive into its 2016 data to settle the debate and create the right formula of what makes the perfect hotel stay. It enlisted the help of consumer psychologist, Dr. Simon Moore to lead...
New Royalton Resorts Open in Jamaica
Sunwing Vacations is advising agents that Royalton Negril Resort & Spa and Hideaway at Royalton Negril are now open, having welcomed their first guests on March 31. With the addition of these two new properties, vacationers can choose between four different Royalton Luxury Resorts island-wide (Royalton Blue Waters opened at the start of winter 2016 to complement the Royalton White Sands). Set on one of Jamaica’s most legendary beachfronts, Royalton Negril Resort & Spa combines a natural setting with an array of luxurious amenities including unlimited reservation-free...
‘Spring Into Summer’ With Disney Springs
Walt Disney World Resort has introduced special “Spring into Summer Rates” at seven of its Disney Springs Resort Area Hotels for stays through July 31. All seven Official Walt Disney World Hotels are ideally located and provide shuttle transportation every 30 minutes to all four Walt Disney World Theme Parks, two water parks, and at night to the Disney Springs area. Plus, as a bonus, guests at these hotels also receive the “Disney Springs Passport” booklet featuring discounts and specials from Disney Springs merchants on entertainment, shopping and dining. The “Spring...
Goway Adds Fiji Resort to IslandsEscapes Portfolio
Goway has expanded its IslandsEscapes portfolio, adding the new Fiji Marriott Resort, Momi Bay, Fiji. The newly opened five-star resort is only the second resort in Fiji to offer Overwater Bures. The resort features 272 rooms, including 22 unique adults-only Overwater Bure Villas, which have direct access to the lagoon. Guests who book the new property by June 30 will receive a $63 daily food and beverage or spa credit. Goway’s Fiji Vacation package starts at $3,139 per person, and includes seven nights Fiji Marriott Resort, roundtrip airfare with Fiji Airways from North America,...
Beaches To Welcome Sesame Street’s Julia
Beaches Resorts is expanding its partnership with Sesame Street and following the landmark television debut of Julia, a new Sesame Street Muppet with autism, will welcome the walkaround character’s arrival to its resorts in Jamaica and Turks & Caicos this fall. Julia’s debut continues Beaches Resorts’ partnership with Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street, and expands the resort company’s exclusive Beaches Resorts Caribbean Adventure with Sesame Street program, now in its 13th year. “We created Beaches Resorts as a...
Intrawest Resorts To Be Sold For US$1.5 Billion
Intrawest Resorts Holdings, owner of Blue Mountain in Ontario and Mont Tremblant (pictured) in Quebec, is being sold for US$1.5 billion to a newly formed entity controlled by affiliates of the Aspen Skiing Company and KSL Capital Partners. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Intrawest stockholders will receive $23.75 in cash for each share of Intrawest common stock, representing a total valuation of approximately $1.5 billion including debt obligations to be assumed or refinanced net of cash at closing. The transaction was unanimously approved by the board of directors of...