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TravelBrands Cruising With Health And Safety Training
TravelBrands launched an extensive training program to meet the needs of today’s traveller by enhancing knowledge of the new health and safety measures aboard their cruise line partners. Their mission is to ensure that both agents and their clients can confidently plan and enjoy their next cruise vacation to the fullest. During June, there will be 15, 30-minute online webinars available with key cruise partners, and everyone is invited to join all of them. The sessions will focus on the new policies, procedures, and measures meant to keep guests safe as cruising opens...
Eustache Retiring, Guérard Named President, CEO
Jean-Marc Eustache, one of the principal architects of Transat, is retiring and Annick Guérard has been named president and CEO of the company. Transat was launched in 1987 and Eustache’s business vision focused on vertical integration, and made Transat into a world leader in the tourism industry. Raymond Bachand, the Lead Director of the Corporation, observed that: “With the crisis resulting from the COVID-19, we were most happy to have been able to rely on all of Jean-Marc's experience and wisdom to face the worse storm in the history of Transat and the tourism industry,...
Sunwing Has An Offer For Agents
Sunwing is offering agents 5X the STAR Agent Reward Points on new bookings to select Dreams Resorts & Spas and Secrets Resorts & Spas properties. Agents can take advantage of the limited time offer on applicable new bookings made between now and June 4, 2021 for travel between Nov. 1, 2021 and April 30, 2022. To help agents secure their bookings, Sunwing is extending its Freedom 21/22 Sale to include select Dreams and Secrets resorts. As well, for every room booked at participating Dreams properties, agents will be entered for the chance to win a seven-night resort...
Build Your Own Small Group Bubble With Goway
Working in partnership with its trusted travel partners, Goway’s small group bubble vacations are based on a minimum of 10 passengers travelling together to destinations across Asia, Africa & the Middle East, Central & South America, Downunder, the Idyllic Islands, and the UK & Europe. Each itinerary offers easy movement and adheres to the best health and safety standards. Goway Groups Only caters to each and every kind of group traveller and bubble itineraries can be developed for multi-generational families that want to reconnect, groups of friends that want to...
Ready To Go
“We know that competition for tourism will be ferocious coming out of this pandemic,” Destination Canada’s Maureen Riley observes, but she makes it clear that “the foundation we are currently setting means we will be ready once restrictions are lifted. Tourism businesses have made huge investments in new health and hygiene protocols and they are ready to welcome back visitors.” This week, Rendez-vous Canada + is underway virtually, welcoming buyers from around the world to meet with representatives from destinations and suppliers of Canadian tourism product and...
TPI Get Active At Mid-Year Event
Some 350 attendees and more than 30 supplier partners gathered virtually last week as TPI hosted its mid-year event designed to help its members activate their businesses for future success. The two-day, Get Active event featured presentations led by Nino Montagnese, vice president, Air Canada Vacations, Gary Murphy, co-owner & senior vice president, sales, AMAWaterways, Vicki Freed, senior vice president of sales, trade support and service, Royal Caribbean International, Rob McChlery, partner, senior associate, Investors Group, and keynote session delivered by Geraldine...
Industry Responds With Resilience At Rendez-vous Canada
The show must go on – even during the coronavirus pandemic. Rendez-vous Canada kicked off yesterday (May 17) using a virtual format, the first time in the show's 45-year history that delegates haven't been at the national tourism promotion show in person. Coronavirus led to the cancellation of last year's show. “Our sector continues to respond and show its incredible resilience,” Destination Canada president Marsha Walden told delegates during the show's opening. The past 14 months have been tough for the tourism trade as coronavirus has sent international travel into a...
Feed Your Soul At Travel South USA Showcase
Registration for the 9th Annual Travel South USA International Showcase is now open. The International Showcase will take place in New Orleans from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, 2021, and will include nine Super FAM Tours going to Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The three-day marketplace and four-day familiarization programs are designed to showcase the gateways, road trips, and experiences in the South for key tour operators and airline partners. New safety, and hygiene protocols in compliance with the CDC and U.S. Travel Association’s Meetings Means Business Coalition...