Resorts
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. ...
There’s A Sandals Virtual Fam Today
Sandals Resorts recently introduced a new series of virtual fam trips, created exclusively for Canadian agents, allowing them to visit Sandals and Beaches Resorts across the Caribbean – from the comfort of their own home – all this week. Due to popular demand, the original session for the Eastern Caribbean has now been divided into two: Thurs May 14 -- Saint Lucia 11:00am – 11:45am EDT Experience the three Sandals Resorts on the lush island of Saint Lucia, and the exclusive exchange program between...
Safe Travels
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has unveiled a range of new worldwide measures to restart the sector. The new measures are have designed to rebuild confidence among consumers so they can travel safely once the restrictions are lifted. Called Safe Travels, the new protocols provide consistency to destinations and countries as well as guidance to travel providers, operators and travellers on the new approach to health and hygiene in the post COVID-19 world. The health and safety of travellers and workers is put at the heart of the new global protocols, which have been...
Resorts Update: Outrigger, RIU, Karisma & More
When the world is ready to travel again from Outrigger Hospitality Group on Vimeo. Outrigger Hotels & Resorts has just released a new “Video of Hope” for the travel industry. The hotel company also recently launched #OutriggerCARES as a global platform to provide support for its internal team as well as offer resources and aid to the communities in which the brand operates. Localized care ranges from housing healthcare heroes in Hawaii to delivering meals in Mauritius and donating personal protective equipment to a hospital in Phuket. Looking forward, Outrigger...
Virtual Fams From Sandals Resorts
Sandals Resorts has introduced a new four-part series of virtual fam trips created exclusively for Canadian agents, and allowing them to visit Sandals and Beaches Resorts across the Caribbean – from the comfort of their own home. The sessions -- which began yesterday (May 11) and featured Montego Bay and Negril -- are just 45 minutes long, but will provide agents with a wealth of product knowledge by showcasing accommodations and amenities at each resort they visit, along with useful tips that agents can use in their own client presentations. The inaugural series of virtual fam...