Tour Operators
Start Your Engines With New TravelBrands Incentive
Travel Brands Car Rentals is revving up its engines with a new incentive campaign for agents this holiday season. The company’s ‘Tis the Season for Giving’ campaign gives agents the opportunity to receive a 2% bonus commission and 2x the Loyalty Rewards Points on all car rental bookings. Agents will also have one of two chances to win their entire car rental back. This promotion applies to any new car booking with Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty, Avis, Budget, Alamo, Enterprise, and National and runs from Dec. 8 to Dec. 31, 2021. Go to www.travelbrandsaccess.com for...
Give The Gift Of Travel With Sunwing Gift Cards
With the Christmas shopping season well underway, Sunwing has launched its new Sunwing Gift Cards. Available now, the digital gift cards can be purchased online at www.sunwing.ca with amounts ranging from $50 to $2,500, and can be easily redeemed online, with customers’ travel agents or through the Sunwing Sales Centre. Gift cards can be used towards the purchase of any Sunwing product including vacation packages, flights, room upgrades, excursions, private transfers and more. And it seems that Sunwing Gift Cards have arrived at the right time as a new survey commissioned by...
Collette Offering Savings On Ireland Trips
Collette is offering travellers a chance to save $250 on travel to Ireland. Now, that’s what you have to call the luck of the Irish. Travellers can book 2022 travel between 12/6/2021 – 12/10/2021 for travel 1/1/22-12/31/22. Offer code IRELAND250 must be used at time of booking for savings. Travel professionals will earn commission now with Collette’s Advanced Commission Program. The offer is valid on new retail bookings only made between 12/06/2021 - 12/10/2021 for travel 1/1/2022 - 12/31/2022. Offer code IRELAND250 must be used at time of booking for savings. Offer...
12 Days Of Giveaways From TravelBrands Encore Cruises
TravelBrands Encore Cruises is in the holiday spirit with the launch of Encore’s Favourite Things: 12 Days of Giveaways -- a fun way for travel agents to earn more on cruise bookings. The campaign runs from Dec. 6 to Dec. 21, 2021. Nathalie Tanious, COO, TravelBrands, said: “We love this time of the year because it allows us to do something special for the travel agent community. Our hope is to spark a little joy and extra excitement into their day-to-day by giving them the chance to earn daily bonus Loyalty Rewards Points. Travel agents work incredibly hard all year long, and this...
A Crazy Year But We’re Not Giving Up: Prinz
Seems only fitting that Pascal Prinz had the chance to announce that Switzerland had changed its entry rules -- and made it easier for Canadians to visit -- during an in-person event in Toronto late last week. Prinz, director of Switzerland Tourism in Canada, welcomed a small group of travel trade types for a luncheon presentation at the Sky Club Fitness Plus Spa in downtown Toronto updating them on Switzerland’s change in entry requirements and offering them some insights on what the destination had on offer for Canadians in 2022. The rapid spread of the Omicron variant has seen...
Huntington Welcomes Zammit As BDM
Huntington Travel Group has named Jennifer Zammit as Manager Business Development for Canada & USA Zammit is a top performing Business Development Manager with an undeniable record of securing key clients, propelling revenue streams, and capturing the partnerships and preferred status with major consortia to drive new business. She has worked in the industry for over 25 years with companies like Bedsonline, Travel Bound, Time Zone One (Marketing Brand USA) and most recently as Business Development Manager – Atlantic Canada & SW Ontario for Globus Family of Brands In her...
More Self-Service Options From ACV
Air Canada Vacations is giving travel agents more self-service tools to allow them to manage their client’s bookings through its website. To help agents save time, ACV has enhanced its self-serve tools through TripBook for bookings made online. The enhancements include the ability to view and print bookings, access location maps, travel guides and e-documents, add payments and seat selections, cancel bookings and edit passenger information. In addition, the tour company has implemented online submission forms for some requests previously only available through its call centre,...
Putting Giving On Your Wish List With Planeterra
With the holidays fast approaching, Planeterra has launched its year-end giving campaign, The Wish List. The aim of this year’s fundraiser is to support five of Planeterra’s community tourism enterprises, which will begin receiving travellers in 2022 but still require sponsorship for training, equipment and even tuk tuks before they can open their doors to international groups. The Wish List allows supporters of Planeterra and community tourism, to be part of making “wishes” come true this holiday season after a difficult two years with limited income from international...