Tour Operators
Green Joins Huntington Travel Group
Cheryl Green has joined Huntington Travel Group & Escapades by Huntington as its Manager Business Development based in Toronto. She is a top‐performing travel industry manager with an extensive record of managing key clients, with particular focus on product training and customer service. In her new role, Green will be focusing on capturing new travel agency partnerships while looking after the existing preferred status with major consortia accounts and retail travel agency clients. For over 15 years, Green has been working in the travel industry with great companies such...
Collette Adds Japan Tour As Sales Surge
With its Japan sales surging, Collette has added a new Japan tour to their product line. Dramatic bookings to the destination prompted the company to create a new Explorations tour to Japan highlighting the rich culture and traditions. Japan: Past and Present provides travellers with multiple opportunities to immerse themselves with the sights and sounds of the country; from neon-lit streets filled with people, to quiet shrines filled only with silence, guests come face-to-face with a culture thousands of years in the making. The tour explores the cities of Tokyo, Kyoto and...
Travel Courier Goes Roamie-ing With G Adventures, Hostelworld
Over the next year, Irish journalist Claire Scott is travelling the world embarking on Roamies trips, a new youth travel style by G Adventures and Hostelworld. After each adventure, Scott will share her experiences exclusively in Travel Courier for the Canadian trade. Like many young travellers, following the pandemic Ireland-based Scott, who was awarded Young Journalist of the Year in 2020 at Ireland’s National Journalism Awards, decided to take a break from her journalism career and follow her passion for adventure, embarking on a 12-month sabbatical. Her role as the Roamie-ing...
Check Out The Top 10 From ToursByLocals
ToursByLocals is reporting ‘substantial demand’ for travel heading into the busy summer season after more than two years of COVID-19 restrictions “May was an all-time record month for us after nearly 14 years in business,” says Paul Melhus, the CEO of the Canadian-based company that connects discerning travellers in search of customized, private tours with handpicked tour guides in 189 countries worldwide. Melhus continued: “Previously our best sales month was March 2019, before the collapse of international tourism. When we entered 2022 with the wave of Omicron and then...
TravelBrands Encore Cruises Returns With SeaU
TravelBrands Encore Cruises is making waves and hosting its seventh SeaU departing from Fort Lauderdale on March 26, 2023. This year, TravelBrands Encore Cruises’ SeaU will be hosted on the all-new Celebrity Beyond for a 7-night Western Caribbean sailing with stops in the Bahamas, Mexico, and Grand Cayman. The comprehensive cruise event will be filled with training sessions by multiple cruise lines, workshops, and seminars to give travel agents all the tools necessary to make the best cruise sale. The Celebrity Beyond is the third ship in the Edge Series, taking innovative...
Tauck Adds Private Visits to Presley’s Graceland Mansion
With the new Tom Hanks film “Elvis” hitting movie screens in the coming days, and with the late singer’s Graceland home also celebrating its 40th anniversary hosting public tours this month, Tauck has announced that guests on its “Life on the Mississippi” cruise-tour will enjoy a private after-hours tour of the Memphis mansion and grounds. Designated a National Historic Landmark and included on the National Register of Historic Places, Graceland is one of the most famous homes in the United States. The estate welcomes over 500,000 visitors each year. The new film...
Goway Launches GowayPro Travel Academy
Goway has launched the GowayPro Travel Academy in order to help travel professionals expand their destination knowledge and level up their business. The GowayPro Travel Academy features training modules on over 22 destinations (at launch) across all seven continents. Subscribers can take individual country courses and learn key information on its nature, culture, and history, as well as its main tourist attractions and selling points. Travel professionals will also acquire expert insights into various travel styles and strategies for securing repeat bookings. It offers practical...
ACV Adds To Its Sales Team
Air Canada Vacations has announced the appointment of Ana Paula De Souza to the role of Director of Sales and Matthew Djorsev to the role of Manager of National Accounts. Nino Montagnese, Vice President, Air Canada Vacations, said: “I am happy to welcome Ana Paula and Matthew to Air Canada Vacations. We’ve built a formidable team, and under Ana Paula’s attentive leadership, we look forward to continuing to rebuild our industry alongside all our travel partners.” Ana Paula joins Air Canada Vacations’ senior management team with more than 30 years of experience in the travel...