Tour Operators
Trafalgar Invites Agents, Clients To Talk Travel
In celebration of The Good Life, Trafalgar Canada will host 34 “Love to Talk Travel” social gatherings across Canada. For the seventh consecutive year, travel agents and their clients are invited to attend the interactive and fun receptions. “All the details are taken care of, and guests can relax and be in the moment as they mingle together and share their favourite Trafalgar experiences and be inspired with new immersive travels,” the tour operator says. Starting today (Nov. 8), Trafalgar Canada’s team members will host Love to Talk Travel gatherings, starting in...
TravelBrands Offers Agents Extra Commission
TravelBrands is giving agents the opportunity to earn more money through their bookings. Agents who book hotel stays or Travel Genie packages will receive 3% extra bonus commission. For any car rental bookings made, agents will receive 15% commission. The offer is valid on new bookings made for travel at any time. The bonus commission will be added to the agents’ file after the promotion has ended. Agents can earn their commission by booking at...
Small Change, Big Hearts
Transat is making it possible to contribute to its “Small Change, Big Hearts” program when booking a package online at transat.com and through travel agents or its Transat call centre agents. Since 2009, the fundraising program has collected pocket change, in all currencies, from its passengers at the end of every flight. These funds are donated in equal amounts to SOS Children’s Villages, an international organization that cares for orphaned and abandoned children in 134 countries, and the Children’s Wish Foundation, an organization whose mission is to enable children with...
Cooking With Transat
Over 50 VIP, travel trade types were welcomed to Cirillo's Culinary Academy in west Toronto yesterday (Nov. 6) to get the inside scoop on Transat Tours Canada Inc.'s 2018 Europe program and to roll up their sleeves and cook themselves a gourmet lunch featuring dishes from destinations – Italy, Greece, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Canada, Europe, Israel, Spain and France – that the tour company is featuring in its new program. And not only did agents have a chance to enjoy some tasty dishes, they were also provided with lots of need-to-know information on what the operator had in...
Ireland Shines For Canadian Travel Agents
With Belfast and the Causeway Coast in Northern Ireland clinching a coveted spot as the number one region in the world for travellers to visit in Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2018 ranking, as last year saw a record number of Canadians travel to Ireland, and as non-stop and year-round air access from Canada continues to increase, all signs point to further growth for Canadians travelling to the Emerald Isle, reports assistant editor, Ann Ruppenstein in an exclusive story in this week's digital edition of Canadian Travel Press. “Last year we had 203,000 Canadians so we’ve had over...
Karisma Names TravelBrands As Preferred Partner
Karisma Hotels & Resorts has named TravelBrands as its Preferred Partner for the month of November. The Karisma Preferred Partner program goal is to highlight a different partner each month, offering a variety of special activities to drive excitement and motivation while providing training on Karisma Hotels & Resorts and the Gourmet Inclusive Experience. Partners that are chosen to participate enjoy a range of benefits, including training support, sales incentives and assistance, weekly contests, web, social media, and press exposure. With November’s promotion,...
TTAND Just Keeps On Growing
The Travel Agent Next Door (TTAND) hosted its third annual open house in Toronto this week and it was a packed house. In fact, so many people wanted to attend that TTAND founder, Flemming Friisdahl decided the best thing to do was move the event across the street to The Strathcona Hotel. And that's kind of indicative of how things have gone for the home-based agency group which launched its operations three years and seven months ago and has grown to 488 agents and 26 staff and in all likelihood will generate somewhere in the neighbourhood of $80 million to $82 million in sales by the...
Globus Launches Agent Promo
For every 2018 booking made with brands Globus, Cosmos or Monograms to Britain, Ireland or Italy between Nov. 1 and 30, the company will award the agent with a $25 Visa gift card for every two clients booked and deposited. And at the end of the month, one lucky agent will be drawn at random to win a seven-day Monograms vacation package for two to London and Dublin, including accommodation, sightseeing, transportation between the cities and the services of a Monograms Local Host in each city. To receive your gift card and to qualify to win the Monograms vacation package, you must...