Tour Operators
Sunwing Making Travel Easy
Sunwing is making it easy for agents and customers to navigate the new world of travel with more flexibility, insurance options and relevant content than ever before. The company is offering the ability for customers to change their plans anytime with no fees along with free COVID-19 medical coverage on most all-inclusive vacation packages. And to help Canadians get back to paradise, the tour operator is also offering savings of up to 45% on popular vacation packages during their Yes You Can sale. As well, Sunwing has launched a dedicated Travel Requirements landing page...
New Savings From TruTravels
TruTravels is offering young adventurers a chance to save up to 50% on trips in Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico this November and December, when booking before Dec. 4, 2021. The company expanded into Latin America in 2019 after successfully storming the backpacker sector in Asia. With colourful destinations and lots of opportunities for adventure, Latin America was an obvious choice as the operator looked to offer new countries to their dedicated ‘TruTravellers’ and to also cater to the growing North American market. Mark Pope, co-founder of TruTravels, says Latin America has...
Discover The United States With G Adventures
G Adventures has unveiled an expanded United States of Adventure collection globally following the announcement that the US will reopen to international travel beginning in November. The additional 13 newly-developed tours double the size of the collection, which was initially launched in February 2021 for domestic travellers, and now offers 28 trip options to national and Navajo Nation parks in the United States. The new, small-group trips have been developed with the traveller experience and local communities top of mind. They include important Indigenous-led experiences such...
Something Special For Agents From Collette
Collette has released details of a special added incentive* for travel professionals to earn on bookings that include the Oberammergau Passion Play. Travel professionals will qualify for the program by making five new bookings with a minimum of one Oberammergau booking for 2022 travel (double or single) and will receive $500. The amount will increase to $1,500 for two Oberammergau bookings and five domestic bookings. For travel professionals who book ten Oberammergau bookings, they can receive $1,500. In addition to the bonus incentive, agents’ clients will save up to $1,500...
Travel Again, Travel In Style With Insight
Insight Vacations has launched its new 2022-2023 Worldwide collection, featuring 133 immersive itineraries and over 100 unique Insight Experiences across Europe, Northern Africa, the Americas and Asia. Travel Advisors are invited to explore the new interactive brochure to find their clients’ perfect premium guided tour. Guests will come away enriched and informed, with the insights and expertise from their Local Experts and Travel Directors, and know they are making a lasting impact as they go. Insight’s MAKE TRAVEL MATTER Experiences are now featured on every tour worldwide,...
Discovering Europe With The Globus Family Of Brands
The Globus family of brands reports its Europe program literally spans the continent, stretching from Portugal into Eastern Europe. And Carla Brake, the company's Canadian director of business development, says her employer can easily accommodate those with different travel interests. "The depth and breadth of our portfolio is really vast...," she told a Baxter Media webcast. "We really feel that we have something for everyone." Globus family of brands has over 700 vacations on six continents. The webcast follows the introduction of the company's Now Is Our Time campaign. "We...
TICO Board Approves Claims
The Travel Industry Council of Ontario’s (TICO’s) Board of Directors approved 45 claims totalling $125,321.39 to assist 97 consumers who did not receive the travel services for which they had paid. The claims, approved on Sept. 28, 2021, include: Albarkah Travel and Tours Inc. -- 32 claims to assist 77 consumers, totalling $105,101.99 Fly Jamaica Airways -- 2 claims to assist 4 consumers, totalling $1,924.99 Jet Airways -- 11 claims to assist 16 consumers, totalling $18,294.41 In addition, the following claims totalling $16,548.02 were denied: Tucan Travel Inc. -- 2...
Exodus Launches Nature First Initiative
Exodus Travels continues to put Nature First. The operator has already made a commitment to the earth by setting out to halve its carbon footprint by 2030, re-wild 100 square meters of land per passenger, and to compensate for all trip and flight emissions; with the goal being to become Nature Net Positive by 2024. The focus of this initiative will be to reduce the negative impacts of travel, including carbon emissions, waste and pollution, and ecosystem exploitation, and seek to outweigh these impacts with efforts to restore nature wherever possible, as part of their promise to...