Tour Operators
Canadians Can Save In The Cayman Islands
After a record-breaking year for Canadian visitation, the Cayman Islands is offering savings of up to 40% through its Summer Only In Cayman campaign. Clearly Canadians have found lots of reasons to visit with 4,567 travelling to the Cayman Islands in February 2019 – making it the best month on record. Whether that's because of the Cayman Islands' reputation as the Culinary Capital of the Caribbean or the fact that it's just a flight away, it's clear that Canadian travellers have found something to like about the destination. Now the Cayman Islands is wooing summer visitors with...
TravelBrands Gets A Lift From Uplift
TravelBrands is making booking and planning travel is easier with the adoption of Uplift, which gives agents the option to offer a monthly payment plan to their clients. Frank DeMarinis, president & CEO, TravelBrands, said that: “Uplift has done an incredible job of offering accessible and seamless payment options for travellers. Our partnership with Uplift will continue to support our mission of helping agents work smarter, not harder, and help clients book the vacation of their dreams.” Uplift is a California-based company that offers pay-over-time travel financing...
Say I Do Abroad
Looking at Taiya Colonello’s picture-perfect destination wedding photos on an idyllic beach in Costa Rica, it’s hard to imagine that a mere month before the big day her best-laid plans were in jeopardy. “Exactly one month prior to the group’s departure for Costa Rica, I received a message from my contact at the tour company, a message no travel agent ever wants to receive: The flights were cancelled and there were no alternate flights offered or available for their travel dates,” travel agent Pamela Walker of Weddings by Escapes, tells Travel Courier. “I sat there, stunned,...
TravelBrands Appointment
TravelBrands has appointed Shannon Smith has been promoted to director of sales, Ontario. As a respected veteran in the travel community, Smith brings 19 years of experience and a range of expertise to the role. Her extensive history in the travel industry brings a unique understanding of both the retail and wholesale industry. As director of sales, Ontario, Smith will oversee the business development managers, a variety of agency chains and consortiums, as well as agency partnerships located within Ontario. Smith's travel career began in 2000 when she worked as a cultural rep at...
Sunwing Releases New Groups Guide, Agent Incentives
Sunwing has released the latest edition of its Groups Guide, a comprehensive travel agent resource offering insider tips, exclusive perks and savings opportunities on group vacation and cruise packages. The tour operator is offering agents the chance to win big in 2019. The STARMillionaire program is returning for another year, giving agents the opportunity to win one million STAR Agent Reward Points that convert to cash (a cash value of $1,800). Agents have the chance to win when they book a group of 10 adults or more by Aug. 27. The more group bookings agents make, the more chances...
Adventure Canada Launches ‘All You Can Travel’ Offer
Adventure Canada is offering travellers a unique opportunity to experience all the expeditions they can handle – including Europe’s outer edges, Iceland, Greenland, the Northwest Passage, and Canada’s Eastern shores – onboard the Ocean Endeavour in 2019, with a special new “All You Can Travel” offer. For US$50,000 per person, participants in the program have access to any available cabin onboard any of Adventure Canada’s voyages as the Ocean Endeavour sails the northern tip of Scotland, around Ireland and Iceland, to Greenland and Newfoundland, and in and out of the...
Globus Thanks Agents With Avalon Prize
In honour of Travel Agent Day, the Globus family of brands has launched a new contest. Any agent booking and depositing any of the company’s four brands – Globus, Cosmos, Avalon Waterways or Monograms – will have his or her name entered in a contest to win one of its European Avalon Active & Discovery cruises for two. Every booking results in one entry. “We rely on the travel agents every day to help us promote and sell our product,” says Kim Clarke, director of sales for the Globus family of brands in Canada. “We hope they are as excited as we are about this...
Trafalgar Continues Its War on Plastic
Alongside its parent company, The Travel Corporation (TTC), Trafalgar has announced the removal of single-use plastic (SUP) water bottles from its coaches from 2019 as part of its commitment to being SUP-free on their trips by 2022. Powered by TreadRight, the not-for-profit foundation created more than a decade ago by TTC, JoinTrafalgar shares TreadRight’s mission to make travel matter. Pioneering the fight for a sustainable future for 10 years through their JoinTrafalgar program, Trafalgar’s mission falls under three simple pillars – have a positive impact to people, places and...