Tour Operators
GET DOWN UNDER
Boomerang Tours has unveiled its 2013-14 "Australia and New Zealand"program with the launch of a new brochure offering just about everything clients may want to see "Down Under"and including a number of new additions. In Australia, there's a new "Sydney and Farm Stay"small group tour where participants meet in Sydney and then leave city life behind as they travel into the mountains of Collah Tops National Park, staying overnight at a local farm. There's also a new Sydney to Canberra self-drive that showcases both cities, as well as the Snowy Mountains, the village of Thredbo near Mount...
ANDERSON, GPT SAVINGS
Anderson Vacations and Grand Pacific Tours (GPT) are offering a discount of $200 p.p. on any New Zealand booking until June 30. Anderson has been working closely with GPT over the past few years to offer unrivaled tours of New Zealand. GPT has a variety of touring products and styles, including Affordable Coach Holidays, Luxury Coach Holidays, and Ultimate Small Group Tours. Each tour enables travellers to choose their preference of airline that best suits their budget and style. Affordable Coach Holidays include a choice of the 16-Day "Highlights of New Zealand Tour"or the 14-Day "New...
ANDERSON BOOKING INCENTIVE
Just in time for spring bookings of escorted coach tours and FIT holidays in Canada is a new travel agent incentive program by Anderson Vacations. Visa gift cards valued at $50 are now being offered to agents who make bookings with Anderson for programs ranging from the rugged coastline of the Atlantic Maritimes to the mountain scenery of western Canada. The bookings have to be made between April 29 and May 31 and each must be for five nights or more. The booking agency will receive the commissions for the booking, but the booking agent themselves will receive the Visa gift card. This is the...
THE ‘RAIL’ THING
A new B2B flyer launched by Anderson Vacations is highlighting rail travel throughout Canada's Rocky Mountains and encouraging travel agents to use this point-of-sale item for their sales promotional activities to sell Western Canada by Rail. The Rocky Mountains by Rail are a popular journey experienced from Calgary to Vancouver, or vice versa, and Anderson Vacations offers some of most versatile and varied travel packages in the Canadian marketplace. The popular rail journeys offer services aboard Rocky Mountaineer and VIA Rail and include a number of personal travel options. The Western...
AIR NORTH SUMMER SOLSTICE PASS
The Summer Solstice Air Pass by Air North is back for another year. Starting price for the pass is $799, which covers four one-way flights for two eligible travellers. It allows bookings as close as two hours before departure, with the assurance of cost predictability. Air North operates scheduled flights in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, BC and Alberta, plus seasonal flights to Alaska. In 2012, it celebrated its millionth Boeing 737 passenger....
NEW MODEL, NO RISK
Sunquest Vacations is reinventing itself, unveiling a new logo along with a completely new approach to doing business by now offering packaged vacations with substantially more choice and greater flexibility. Following the successful launch of FunSun Vacations packages earlier this year, Sunquest will transition to the same business model, taking over the sun program, while FunSun will continue to offer packages to the US, a market, officials say, that has been traditionally under-represented by Canadian tour operators. Moving forward, Sunquest will focus on the destinations it is synonymous...
IT’S A GO WITH AGO
The Globus family of brands in Canada has launched a new partnership with Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario. Under the agreement, Globus will be able to provide gallery discounts to its Journeys Club past clients, and it becomes the official contest partner, providing trips to gallery visitors. Welcoming some 600,000 visitors per year to its vast collections of European, Canadian and contemporary art, the AGO is one of Canada's most distinguished art museums. "We are delighted with this new relationship,"says Globus' Stéphanie Bishop, managing director in Canada. "The AGO and the Globus...
SAVINGS IN THE BAHAMAS
Travellers booking Air, Hotel & Transfer package of six nights or more with Air Canada Vacations (ACV) to select resorts in Nassau or Great Exuma, Bahamas by May 20 will save $300 per room. The offer is available when booking three, four or five nights to Great Exuma, or when booking four or five nights to Nassau. This is for new bookings only and valid for travel to Great Exuma completed by June 30 and from Aug. 1 and completed by Nov. 3, and for travel to Nassau for travel completed by June 19 and from Aug. 19, completed by Nov. 3....