Hotels
Save on the Slopes With Club Med
Club Med is offering an exclusive discount on winter family getaways. Club Med’s Early Book Rate Guarantee ensures that travellers get the lowest rates available for a stay at one of its resorts, and those who jump on this deal quick will have first pick of resorts, rooms and services. It even includes the 4-Trident resort Club Med La Rosière, opening this winter. Through March 9, book an all-inclusive ski package and save up to 30% at any of the brand’s mountain resorts in the Alps. Guests can choose from top rated Club Med resorts, including La Rosière, Alpe d’Huez, Les...
You Have To Vote If You Want To Win
How would you like to win a trip to New Orleans or a round-trip flight? What about a $250 Visa gift card, vacation to Italy, or European river cruise? If you want to win one of these five fantastic prizes, then you'll have to vote! Baxter Media invites Canadian travel agents to vote for their favourite suppliers, destinations, services, and brands in the 21st annual Agents' Choice Readership Survey, Canada's original, most authoritative and most popular travel industry poll. Last year, more than 6500 Canadian travel agents cast their votes. Every agent who votes will then be entered...
Grupo Piñero Invests US$60 Million in Bahia Upgrades
Grupo Piñero, Bahia Principe Hotels & Resort's parent company, is investing US$60 million to renovate its Living Resorts division, which includes hotels, residential units and golf courses that operate under the Bahia Principe brand. As part of the group’s continuous commitment to offer guests an elevated experience, resorts in both Mexico and the Dominican Republic will see numerous enhancements. “Our strategic approach to renovating our hotels, residences and golf courses will help us surpass guest expectations in a hospitality landscape that is becoming increasingly...
Banyan Tree Hotels Coming to The Bahamas
Island Developers and Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts are partnering to offer the Banyan Tree’s first property in The Bahamas. Located just 48 nautical miles and a 20-minute seaplane ride from Miami, Banyan Tree illa Bahamas is set on 40 acres of pristine Atlantic Oceanfront and Bimini Bayfront properties. The eco-conscious resort will consist of 50 keys and 54 luxury residences. Exclusively offering the first, authentic Maldives-style over-water bungalows in the Caribbean, the resort brings an entirely new vision to The Bahamas. Hotel suites include private terraces and plunge...
Universal Offers Sneak Peek of New Dockside Inn
Universal Orlando Resort revealed a first look at its newest and eighth hotel, Universal’s Endless Summer Resort – Dockside Inn and Suites – opening on March 17. This first look gives guests a preview of the inspiration for Dockside Inn and Suites, designed to evoke the feeling of being surrounded by the sea from the shore and catching the sunset from beneath a pier. Dockside Inn and Suites is the second hotel in Universal Orlando’s Value category and will add 2,050 guest rooms to the destination by the end of 2020, featuring both standard rooms and spacious two-bedroom...
Dan Shines in Israel
Those staying at Israeli hotel firm Dan Hotels' Dan Caesarea Hotel can enjoy pool and a pool simultaneously. The property – slated to reopen shortly after renovations – among other things features a pool table in a swimming pool, along with what's reportedly the only 18-hole golf course in Israel. And, Eitan Sasson, Dan's North American director of sales and marketing told a Wednesday Toronto audience, the hotel is in a historically significant area, with Caesarea being the site from which the country was governed when it was under Roman rule. Sasson reported that Dan –...
Club Med Adds To Canadian Sales Team
Samantha Gillingham is the newest addition to the Club Med sales team in Canada, appointed business development manager for Ontario and British Columbia. Gillingham joins the company with more than 10 years of experience in the travel industry and will share the Ontario province with Janet Martin and Maria Chung. While studying Tourism Management at Seneca College, Gillingham entered her first role in the travel industry at Transat Holidays in Toronto. For the next 10 years, she worked as a retail agent for major tour operators and airlines. Gillingham has held various senior...
Dream Hotel Group Bringing Brand to Las Vegas
Dream Hotel Group has announced plans to debut its flagship lifestyle brand Dream Hotels in Las Vegas with a free-standing 450-room luxury lifestyle hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in 2023. Construction of Dream Las Vegas is expected to begin in early 2021. Set to open in 2023, Dream Las Vegas will feature 450 chic and stylish, well-appointed guest rooms and suites, seven dining and nightlife venues, including a rooftop pool deck, bar and lounge, three feature restaurants, two additional bar and lounge concepts on the gaming floor, and a grab-and-go café on the street level, as well...