Tour Operators
Sunshine State Savings from Sunquest
Until the end of June, Sunquest is offering up to 35% savings on all of its Florida packages. With departures from gateways across Canada, as well as from US border city airports, Sunquest features a total of 18 Florida routes, with daily service to Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Orlando and Miami. Special pricing is valid on all new bookings made between May 28 and June 29, for travel between May 29 and Oct. 31. Sunquest’s Florida program includes the following daily flights: Vancouver to Orlando/Kissimmee; Edmonton to Orlando/Kissimmee; Calgary to Orlando/Kissimmee and Fort Lauderdale;...
ALBATours’ Winter Italy Program Now on Sale
ALBATours’ winter 2014-2015 program to Italy, including a comprehensive flight schedule with Alitalia, is now live in the system and available to book. Offering affordable and convenient flights out of Toronto to 17 destinations in Italy, the winter program will run from Nov. 1 to March 31, 2015. All flights will be aboard Alitalia’s Airbus A330 aircraft and will initially (Nov. 1-Dec. 14) feature two classes of service – Classica (economy) and Magnifica (business) – with a third class, Classica Plus (premium economy), available from Dec. 16 onwards. This program...
Monitoring The Situation
In this week's issue of Travel Courier, Ian Stalker reports that after last week’s military coup in Thailand – aimed at quelling more than half a year of political unrest in the hugely popular Asian country – tour operators offering the destination are hoping that things will quickly return to normal without any flare-ups of violence. The military imposed martial law May 20 and then shortly after seized power, saying it wanted to restore order to a country that has seen anti-government unrest occur in such prime tourist locales as Bangkok. Among coup measures was a...
Collins New GM at MyEscapades
Huntington Travel has appointed Cherry Collins as its new general manager for MyEscapades. Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, Collins has worked in the travel (airline, tourism and hospitality) industry for 30 years. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in tour operations, sales and marketing, product and trade shows to her new position. In South Africa, Collins served the ANC government of Nelson Mandela by providing hospitality and protocol services for foreign dignitaries. In 2001, she relocated to Canada and has held senior positions in sales, operations...
ACV Releases New South America, Asia Collection
Air Canada Vacations (ACV) will release its South America, Asia and South Pacific 2014-15 Collection this week. The Collection offers an extensive selection of packages in more than 17 exotic countries. Air Canada Vacations’ experienced Travel Designers work with travel agents one-on-one to customize each vacation, ensuring flights, city-stays, hotels, tours, car rentals and more are exactly suited to what each individual traveller wants out of their ultimate overseas adventure. ACV offers convenient connections from 66 cities in Canada. This year’s Collection features new...
Goway Offers Safari Savings
Goway’s AFRICAExperts is offering savings of up to $799 on select 14-day East Africa Safari departures. “This is the perfect combination of Kenya and Tanzania and it covers all the must-see highlights,” said Moira Smith, general manager of Goway’s AFRICAExperts. “We cap the number of guests per vehicle at six so everyone has a window seat, use 4×4 vehicles throughout and first class lodges.” Starting in Nairobi, the itinerary includes Mt. Kenya national Park, Samburu, Lake Nakuru and the Masai Mara in Kenya. In Tanzania it visits the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake...
New Merit Travel Coming
Merit Travel Group Inc. is reorganizing its key specialty travel brands, namely: The Adventure Travel Company, Merit Vacations, Merit Group Travel, Merit Ski and Golf Vacations, Ultimate Ski and Golf Vacations. Over the coming months, Merit will be consolidating and enhancing some of its brands. This action will create Merit Travel, which, according to officials, will be immediately positioned as “Canada’s speciality travel leader, focused on providing clients with the highest quality travel planning experience.” As part of this reorganization the retail locations of Travel...
Globus Adjusts Sales Territories
The Globus family of brands (Globus, Cosmos, Avalon Waterways and Monograms) is advising the travel trade that it has adjusted sales territories in Ontario and Atlantic Canada for the group’s BDMs. Hilary Brown ([email protected]; 416-305-0561) is now responsible for the Greater Toronto Area/North and East while Robynlee Hyndman ([email protected]; 416-315-8190) will look after North and West of the GTA, as well as 613 area code. Lora Hamre ([email protected]; 905-518-2360) is now responsible for Southwestern Ontario and Atlantic Canada, while Hector Kaczuga’s...