Tour Operators
Sunquest Expands Service Out of Buffalo
Sunquest is expanding its current offering out of Buffalo Airport, now featuring six new destinations and bringing the total number of routes from this airport to 10. In addition to offering packages out of Buffalo to Punta Cana, Cancun/Riviera Maya, Jamaica and Orlando, Sunquest now also offers service to Aruba, Barbados, Liberia (Costa Rica), St. Lucia, Turks & Caicos and Nassau, with daily flights available on American Airlines, Jet Blue, Delta Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways. Sunquest is also offering a preferred rate, including parking, at the Hampton Inn &...
Trafalgar Gets Innovative in Europe, Britain
Trafalgar has launched its 2015 Europe and Britain program featuring a record 117 carefully crafted itineraries with 14 new trips, across 10 trip styles and covering 44 countries. With more than 600 Insider Experiences, Trafalgar gives travellers an authentic insight into the culture of each destination. The Hidden Journeys collection is a new trip style which takes clients to less-visited places such as the Dordogne and Bordeaux regions in France with smaller, intimate groups of up to 26 guests. To make it easier for agents selling to solo travellers, Trafalgar has decreased its...
Escape the Ordinary
Intrepid Travel will hand out “golden tickets” to 20 travel agents across Canada in celebration of its Escape the Ordinary campaign. The golden tickets will be hidden inside fortune cookies being distributed by Intrepid BDMs to agents during shop visits and trainings over the next month. The fortune cookies are inspired by the 10% discount offer on trips in Asia, running until Nov. 15 for travel between January and August 2015. There will be 800 cookies handed out over the course of the promotion, 20 of which will contain golden tickets. Those agents will be entered into a draw...
WestJet Honours Top Partners
WestJet hosted its second annual Travel Partner Awards in Toronto late last week. The event was inaugurated in Calgary in 2013. Designed to thank the trade for its efforts in selling the airline and its tour operator division WestJet Vacations, WestJet and sponsors AMResorts and the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Bureau hosted a gala event at Carlu for well over a hundred guests, with many of them winning prizes and others copping top awards. One of those was Skyroute Travel, of Markham, Ont., which was named top Canadian tour operator producer. Shown here receiving the award...
Iberostar Special
Sunquest’s latest “Deal of the Week” is a “Free Upgrade Event” with Iberostar Hotels & Resorts: book a package at one of three resorts in the Dominican Republic, get upgraded to a family room for free. The offer is valid on all new bookings made between Oct. 16 and Oct. 28 for travel anytime from Nov. 1 to Aug. 31, 2015, and applicable from any gateway, for any duration, and at any one of three resorts – Iberostar Bavaro in Punta Cana (free upgrade to a Family Junior Suite), Iberostar Hacienda Dominicus in La Romana (free upgrade to a Family Standard Room) and Iberostar...
Insight Travel Showcase Hits the Road
Insight Vacations has announced the return of its Travel Showcase events – back by popular demand – across 28 cities in Canada, with the first event on Oct. 21 in Regina, Sask. “As we lead into 2015 – our Signature Year – we want to inspire travellers to discover the wonders of Europe, whether for the first time or return to fall in love with their favourite places all over again,” said Insight president Cris David. “We are excited to showcase our 113 hand picked European premium journeys with 14 new itineraries, as well as our all-inclusive Gold luxury collection and...
Anderson Training Sessions
Anderson Vacations will showcase Version 2 of its Downunder Destination Planner to its agency partners later this month. The tour operator is bringing specialists from Downunder to Canada and has selected its top four markets to hold formal educational training events. The specialists and market experts include Odette Smith from Hamilton Island, Peter Graham from Voyages, Northern Territory, and delegates from Tourism Australia. They will be supported by Anderson's in-market BDM team. Event locations are Hamilton, Ont., Oct. 27 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Mississauga, Ont., a...
Discovering La Belle Province
Travel agents, tour operators and other travel trade types from across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) were immersed in everything Quebec last night (Oct. 15) in downtown Toronto as Tourisme Quebec and it partners hosted the annual Discover Quebec Marketplace. Always an entertaining and informative event, the 2014 edition of the marketplace was the biggest yet featuring 38 suppliers from the province and welcoming some 200 agents who had the opportunity to explore the wide range of tourism products that were on offer. Quebec suppliers on hand for the evening included a wide selection...