Tour Operators
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...
How The Travel Industry Is Working To Come Back Better
It may be difficult to recall after months of being cooped up at home, but there was a time prior to the pandemic when destinations around the world were battling overtourism. A time-out from mass travel has given many the ability to reflect on how to come back better and more sustainably — and some were doing it all along. At a time when there’s a fine balance between restoring a healthy amount of tourism and reaching a level where it takes away from the quality of life of locals in places overrun by visitors, Travel Courier looks at what a responsible future looks like for the...
TTC Providing Partners With A New Solution
The Travel Corporation (TTC) is opening up its Destination Management Company (DMC) portfolio to other travel companies and businesses to white label and tailor in response to opportunities made apparent during the pandemic. TTC is launching a dedicated website and series of new tools to present the hassle and risk-free opportunity to leisure and corporate travel businesses. Gavin Tollman, president of The Travel Corporation, explained that: “During the uncertainty of the pandemic, we spoke to a number of our partners who were looking for an operational solution with the quality,...
Planterra Launches The Around The World Challenge
Planeterra has launched the Around the World Challenge to encourage travel lovers to join the non-profit’s movement to support community tourism enterprises as travel re-emerges post-COVID, while at the same time celebrating the diversity and power of community tourism. Participants will be taking on the challenge to collectively travel the globe by walking, running, or biking 40,087km (24,909mi) -- the distance around the equator -- while aiming to raise US$40,087. The challenge will take place over the course of ten days, between May 17 and May 26, with emails and social media...
The Way Forward Is About Everybody
In a wide-ranging conversation with Bruce Poon Tip, the founder of G Adventures makes the point that: “Travel is a privilege, not a right. When you decide to take a holiday, and to travel, it’s a big decision that can impact a lot of lives, so I hope people change how they think about making a decision to take a holiday – and realize what a privilege it is to be able to make that choice.” In Unlearn: The Year The Earth Stood Still, Poon Tip wrote about how travel would change, observing that there would be a difference between what he’d like to see and what may actually...
Transat Extends Flight Suspension To July 29
Transat is extending the suspension of its flights, advising that due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions still in place both in Canada and at the destinations that it operates to, it must extend the suspension of its flights until July 29, 2021, inclusively. Joseph Adamo, chief sales & marketing officer, Transat, said: “We continue to monitor the evolution of the pandemic and the decisions of the health authorities very closely; we will be ready to meet the consumer demand when it arises.” Adamo continued: “We are confident that we have...