Tour Operators
Sunwing Vacations Group integrates NexusTours portal
Sunwing Vacations Group has integrated the NexusTours Agent Portal into all three of its brands' travel agent portals: Sunwing Vacations, WestJet Vacations, and WestJet Vacations Quebec. The new partnership provides Canadian travel advisors with seamless access to NexusTours’ entire catalogue of excursions, activities and experiences. Advisors will be able to offer their clients excursion options in more than 3,850 destinations worldwide. As well, the integration creates a new earning opportunity for travel advisors, as all excursion bookings make through the portal will earn...
Anderson Vacations Launches 2026 Canada Small Group Tours
Anderson Vacations has launched its 2026 Small Group Tours across Canada’s most iconic and remote destinations. Designed for travellers who value comfort, cultural immersion, and meaningful connections, these tours feature intimate group sizes (14–24 guests), expert local guides, and thoughtfully curated itineraries. The 2026 collection spans three distinct regions, offering a diverse range of experiences: Canadian Rockies – Journey through Banff, Jasper, and the Icefields Parkway, with options to include the world-renowned Rocky Mountaineer rail experience. Maritimes...
Globus offer more tours, more styles, more reasons to book
In 2026, the Globus family of brands will debut its most comprehensive portfolio ever – 590 guided and independent vacations worldwide, including 44 new tours destined to give advisors more ways to win big. For advisors, the expanded touring portfolio delivers what FIT can’t: a simpler, more rewarding way to give clients the world – with less work and more return. With every tour fully commissionable, curated and supported by expert Tour Directors, advisors can sell trips that convert faster, repeat more often and maximize returns. Adding personalization and access to every...
Contiki releases Europe 2026 lineup
Contiki has released its lineup of Europe 2026 trips along with a new global pricing model designed to make travel more affordable, transparent, and accessible. Toni Ambler, Chief Customer Officer at Contiki, said that: “Travel should never feel out of reach, which is why our new pricing strategy is about giving young travellers value they can count on.” Ambler continued: “From lower-priced Europe trips to diverse styles of travel and flexible ways to book, Contiki is opening the door for young people to plan earlier and look forward to experiences that feel both attainable...
Kensington Unveils Kensington Expeditions
Kensington is launching Kensington Expeditions -- a new collection of highly customized travel experiences that blend luxury with immersive adventure across land, sea, air and space. Pushing the boundaries of luxury travel, Kensington will offer clients the opportunity to experience the final frontier through curated visits to next-generation space stations. These pioneering outposts, part of the world’s first commercial space station currently in development, are designed to lay the foundation for long-term living and thriving beyond Earth. With an anticipated launch in May 2026,...
Kristal Hicks wins Fresh Tracks Canada’s Exclusive FAM Trip Draw
Fresh Tracks Canada has announced the winner of its exclusive Travel Advisor FAM trip draw and it’s sending out a ‘Big Congratulations’ to Kristal Hicks of Top Tier Travel Group. Hicks won a complimentary spot on the November 2025 FAM trip to Churchill, Manitoba. She’ll stay at the world-renowned Tundra Buggy Lodge, while experiencing an unforgettable polar bear safari adventure. The draw was open to Travel Advisors who registered for Fresh Tracks Canada’s newly launched Travel Advisor Resource Portal, a one-stop destination for tools, resources, and support to help...
Big savings from the Globus Family of Brands
Prices on cruises and tours offered by the Globus family of brands falling and the company is offering a week of incredible, extra savings on select vacations. From Sept 22 2 to Sept. 27, advisors and their clients can take advantage of limited-time savings across the globe, with offers that span every style of travel: Globus: SAVE up to $800 / person on select tours* Cosmos: SAVE up to $425 / person on value-focused vacations* Avalon Waterways: Enjoy FREE pre-paid gratuities, on top of other offers – including Free Air or savings of up to $1,800 / person – on select...
Sunwing Vacations, WestJet Vacations integrate trade sales teams
Last week, a team-building workshop was a celebrated the official integration of WestJet Vacations trade sales team members with the existing Sunwing Vacations team under the leadership of Deana Murphy, Vice President Sales & Business Development at Sunwing Vacations Group. Shannon Cunningham, Director of Sales for WestJet Vacations, Graeme Franklin, Director of Sales for Western Canada, David Wright, Director of Sales for Ontario and Atlantic Canada and Gustavo Moor, Business Development Manager for Quebec now all report to Murphy, with their respective teams continuing to report...