Hotels
Two Riu Properties Ready To Open
The Riu Plaza Berlin in Germany and the Riu Plaza Guadalajara in Mexico will open today (May 25) and be the first two hotels in the chain to reopen after the total closure of all its establishments in March due to the crisis caused by the coronavirus. The two hotels will become the first to apply the security protocols contained in the RIU Manual for the Post-COVID hotel, which "offers the maximum security guarantees and measures possible for clients and employees." The four-star, 357-room Riu Plaza Berlin opened in 2015 in one of the most popular areas of the city, near embassies,...
Quite The Facebook Group
Unique Vacations Canada, an affiliate of Unique Travel Corp, worldwide representatives of Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resorts, has created an exclusive new Facebook Group for Canadian travel advisors as an additional platform to stay in touch during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. By joining the private group, advisors can learn more about the latest product updates, incentives, events and more from the Canadian sales team for Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resorts. Advisors can request to join the Unique Vacations Canada Loves Travel Advisors Group by going to...
Safe Together With Club Med
Club Med has is launching “Safe Together” – a new hygiene and safety protocols that will be implemented in all of the brand’s international resorts, including their resorts in Florida, Mexico, and the Caribbean. To ensure health and cleanliness guidelines are well-aligned with the “new normal” as well as recommendations from worldwide health authorities and local regulations, Club Med worked with an International Scientific Committee comprised of a specialized team of doctors and professors, and closely monitored guest sentiment around the world, including in its...
Hotel Update: Dan Hotels, Palace, Le Blanc Resorts
Dan Hotels is ready to welcome guests, noting that it’s Tel Aviv property has remained open during the pandemic and this week, it will reopen the Dan Caesarea and Dan Eilat. Ronen Nissenbaum, CEO of Dan Hotels, said: “We have been working hard during this period to ensure our guests return to the highest level of safety and comfort. And we have developed a detailed health protocol, covering all areas of the hotels and all meeting the strict guidelines set out by the Israel Ministry of Health.” The group's hotels will operate under the mantra: "Stay Safe & Enjoy by Dan...
Mexico’s Posadas Launches Travel With Confidence
Following weeks of halted operations that permitted time for extensive planning, Mexico’s Posadas, Mexico has unveiled details of its elevated safety and sanitization protocols. Travel with Confidence is currently being applied to all its 180 hotels and resorts in preparation for summer travel. Posadas, which includes La Colección Resorts with 16 resorts across Mexico and the Dominican Republic, is committed to providing travellers and employees peace of mind by implementing and enforcing thorough health and safety protocols using 3M products necessary today for the prevention of...
New Protocols From Palladium
In order to continue offering travellers a pleasant and carefree vacation and to protect its collaborators, Palladium Hotel Group has created a new security and welfare protocol to ensure that its 48 establishments, both in the Americas and in Europe, continue to be safe environments. This protocol, which implements the instructions and recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the expert authorities of the six countries in which we operate, includes new rules and procedures, as well as improvements in the standards in terms of safety, quality, hygiene and health of...
Sunwing Celebrates The Frontline Heroes
It’s all about giving back for Sunwing, and it’s doing just that for frontline workers across Canada, giving away 100 all-inclusive vacations to Royalton Luxury Resorts. Sunwing’s Hero Vacations initiative calls on Canadians to nominate deserving frontline heroes who have helped their family or community fight the pandemic. Eligible nominees can be health care workers, emergency service providers or anyone who has helped keep Canada safe during this difficult time. Stephen Hunter, president and CEO of Sunwing, said of the initiative: “As a Canadian family-owned business,...
When Will Domestic Travel Start Again?
In a special report for Canadian Travel Press, Eric Barber writes that if the Canadian government was looking for any guidelines on how to put the travel and tourism industry in Canada back to work, they might want to consider a new report from Germany’s Kompetenzzentrum Tourismus des Tourismus and represents the first document in tourism that plots a timeline for the return of tourism in Germany based on select factors: politics, economics and science. The report identifies four phases of COVID-19, which are represented by Shutdown, Loosening, Revival & Normalization. ...