Tour Operators
Discover Your Faith In 2021
For those looking for a deeper, more meaningful travel experience, Globus and Cosmos offer an enlightening collection of faith-based vacations around the world that represent inspiring places to bow heads and lift hearts. In 2021, the Globus family of brands’ has unveiled a robust portfolio of 15, faith-based Small-Group Discovery tours throughout Europe, Israel and Jordan. Globus, Cosmos and Avalon Waterways are also offering travellers 13 itineraries to witness the Passion Play in Oberammergau, with reserved seating and premier accommodations, in...
Responsible Travel Redefined
The cofounder of Arctic exploration specialist Adventure Canada says he personally wouldn't welcome the "return to normal" many people have been dreaming of during the coronavirus pandemic. Bill Swan said during a Wednesday Baxter Media webcast on responsible travel that the term suggests to him a return to often environmentally damaging practices he hopes to see the end of. "I don't want to return to normal...We were digesting the planet," said Swan, who helped create a company that prides itself on showcasing landscapes and peoples found in generally remote locales. Indeed,...
It’s #TravelWebcastWednesday
Today’s the day. #TravelWebcastWednesday brings together industry leaders for a session on Responsible Travel Redefined. Following the onset of COVID-19, the rapid shutdown of businesses and traffic brought a something of a reprieve to the natural world for a few quiet months as the world entered lockdown. While many people around the world struggled to deal with the new reality, animal life briefly thrived in a cleaner, greener world. Destinations found the air was cleaner and some of the impacts of overtourism lessened. It looked like an unexpected benefit for advocates...
Peace Of Mind With TTC
The Travel Corporation (TTC) and its 40 brands have announced its $300 Million USD Dollars ‘Peace of Mind Promise’ to its loyal travel advisor community and their clients. As a family-owned and run business for the past 100 years, TTC acknowledges that part of its enduring success is to always conduct its business conservatively and today, the company is fully accredited in all the countries they do business in across the globe. As a privately-owned company, information around the financial status of the business is not released. However, these challenging times call for...
#TravelWebcast Wednesday: Redefining Responsible Tourism
After COVID-19 came to town, the rapid shutdown of businesses and traffic brought a surprise reprieve to the natural world for a few quiet weeks. While many people were struggling to deal with the new reality, animal life briefly thrived in a cleaner, greener world. It looked like an unexpected benefit for advocates of responsible tourism. But was it? Since then, the vastly reduced volume of travel has impacted the conservation efforts of responsible tourism operations, as funds from travellers dwindled to a trickle. And the pandemic has had other effects on sustainable...
Sunwing Welcomes Customers Back To Paradise
Sunwing is planning for brighter days, celebrating its first customers since March who arrived in Cancun and Montego Bay this past weekend. Andrew Dawson, president of Tour Operations for Sunwing, said: “We are pleased that our travellers have been able to head back to the tropics last week and are encouraged by their positive experience in destination. We are looking forward to welcoming back many more travellers in the coming months and resuming service on board Sunwing Airlines.” With operations ramping up and new health and safety protocols in place, more customers will be...
U.S. Lifts Global Level 4 Health Advisory
The U.S. Department of State lifted its Global Level 4 Health Advisory yesterday. In a statement, the Department said that it made the move in close coordination with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), explaining that the Global Advisory initially put in place on March 19, 2020 advised U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19. However, the Department’s statement continued that with health and safety conditions improving in some countries and potentially deteriorating in others, the Department is “returning to...
Adventure In The Forecast
In the U.S. Adventure Traveler Sentiment – June-July 2020, the Adventure Travel Trade Association found that U.S. consumers of ATTA adventure tour operators are expected to resume near pre-COVID level travel spending in 2021, spending an estimated 7% less than their 2019 travel expenditure. That is in contrast to a report by Tourism Economics that reveals that the U.S. travel market spending will not recover to 2019 levels until 2024. It’s a finding that makes it clear that adventure travellers will help drive tourism recovery, especially for the hardest hit destinations with...