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Insight Launches 2014/15 Europe Collection
Insight Vacations has launched its 2014/15 Europe Autumn, Winter & Spring (AWS) collection, including the Eastern Mediterranean and Christmas Markets. Clients can take advantage of an Early Payment Discount of up to 7.5% on select tours when booking and paying in full by July 17. “Our guests can look forward to staying in the most distinctive hotels throughout Europe, enjoy authentic Signature Experiences with passionate characters such as farmers and artists, and taste the local specialities and produce of the regions they visit,” says Cris David, president, Insight...
Sunquest Introduces Packages to London and Paris
Sunquest continues to expand its product offering and featuring packages to London and Paris. Available to book now, the product line offers departures out of either Toronto, with service to London and Paris, or out of Montreal, with service to Paris. Packages include roundtrip airfare aboard Air Canada, Air Transat, Air France or British Airways, and a range of hotel options (11 in London and nine in Paris). Transfers, tours and theatre tickets are available at an additional charge. Package prices start from $560 p.p. plus airline taxes and fees. The following are a few...
Is A Telephone Call Considered A CEM?
Press Today continues to feature a series of questions from agents on Canada's new anti-spam legislation (Bill C-28) in its issues this week, with answers supplied by Doug Crozier and Tim Law of Heifetz Crozier Law. Baxter Travel Media has been hosting a series of Travel Law webinars on the anti-spam legislation featuring HCL's Crozier and Law. The May 6 session -- like the May 1 webinar -- was a sell out and there were lots of questions from webinar participants. A third Question & Answer webinar on Canada's anti-spam legislation has now been scheduled for May 14, 2014 at noon....
Transat Launches Toronto-Marseille Service
Air Transat celebrated the first departure of its new Toronto-Marseille flight at Toronto-Pearson Airport Monday night (May 5) with a festive nautical theme. The new service to Marseille is scheduled to Oct. 20 with departures from Toronto every Monday. This new destination is the 20th to be offered in Europe by Air Transat via direct service from Toronto. Transat Holidays, meanwhile, offers travellers who wish to visit Marseille and Provence several new vacation options, including the nine-day Marseille, Nice & Aix-en-Provence package, which explores the historical port of...
Bahia Principe on Sale
For a limited time, Sunquest is putting all of its Bahia Principe resorts on sale with special savings of $100 per couple ($50 per adult). The sale started yesterday (May 6) and applies to the first 200 bookings, on any departure date, for any duration, from any gateway, and at any Bahia Principe resort in Mexico or the Caribbean that is available through...
Insight Celebrates Travel Agent Day
Celebrated the first Wednesday of May, Travel Agent Day is a day to bring awareness and recognition to the travel agent profession. This year on May 7, Insight Vacations is renewing its commitment to travel agents with a special incentive – from May 7-10, agents who book an Insight tour will automatically receive a $50 bonus commission. “We appreciate our valued travel agent partners and all that they do for Insight Vacations not just on Travel Agent Day, but all year long,” said Cris David, president, Insight Vacations Canada. “We are committed to continually engaging our...
Will The New Rules Apply To “Soft Messages”
This week in Press Today, we've been featuring a series of questions from agents on Canada's new anti-spam legislation (Bill C-28) with answers supplied by Doug Crozier and Tim Law of Heifetz Crozier Law. Baxter Travel Media has been hosting a series of Travel Law webinars on the anti-spam legislation featuring HCL's Crozier and Law. Yesterday's session -- like the first webinar -- was a sell out and there were lots of questions from webinar participants. As a result, a third Question & Answer webinar on the legislation has now been scheduled for May 14, 2014 at noon. To...
What Makes A Message Spam?
Canada's travel industry certainly has a lot of questions about this country's new anti-spam legislation (Bill C-28) that's set to take effect on July 1, 2014. Both today's (May 6) and last week's (May 1) Travel Law webinars by Heifetz Crozier Law's Doug Crozier and Tim Law are sold out and a third Question & Answer webinar on the legislation has now been scheduled for May 14, 2014 at noon. But questions are questions. So in each issue of Press Today this week, Crozier and Law will be responding to a question posed by agents on the new legislation. So here's today's...