IAN STALKER
(Photo above: The Danube is among European rivers Avalon offers cruises on.)
Avalon Waterways is taking on the mythbusters role when it comes to groundless beliefs about waterborne travel.
Stéphanie Bishop, director of Canadian marketing for the Globus brand company, and her marketing colleague Chris Jones used a recent Toronto gathering to dispel some of the notions that...
GREG COATES
While definitely growing in popularity, luxury barge cruises are nonetheless still described as one of the cruise industry’s hidden gems.
One of the leaders in this market is European Waterways. John Wood-Dow, director of the luxury hotel barge operator, recently spoke with Canadian Travel Press and said that despite seeing double-digit growth in the past few years, barge...
IAN STALKER
(Photo above: Seen in the photo, from l to r, are Louisiana Lt.-Gov. Billy Nungesser; Chantal Podgorski of Air Canada; and Doug Bourgeois, assistant secretary of Louisiana’s Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism.)
Here’s some food for thought for those who enjoy culinary tourism – there’s far more to Louisiana cuisine than its best-known dish.
A Louisiana...
IAN STALKER
(Photo above: Elvis Presley’s home of Graceland can be visited in Tennessee.)
Lyn Pilch is inviting people to see where Mark Twain first made his mark.
Pilch is managing director of Mississippi River Country, which promotes sites in the 10 states fronting the Mississippi River, collectively a 3,000-mile route that works its way from being a stream in Minnesota to a mighty...
There have been recent changes – not major, but nevertheless worthy of note – in Montreal. That’s Montreal the Convention, not Montreal the City.
When it comes to international air transportation, Canada (like most of the world) is subject to a pair of key treaties.
The Warsaw Convention was the first attempt by the international community to reach agreement on the liabilities...
MIKE DUNBAR
Visit Florida’s chief executive is quietly confident that state government funding for the budget-constrained organization will ensure that it’s able to continue marketing the sunshine state for the next eight years.
At the recent Florida Huddle trade show in Jacksonville, Dana Young told reporters she’s sure the Senate will unanimously approve the budget extension, and...
MIKE DUNBAR
(Photo above: Nick Careen)
IATA’s One ID initiative, which aims to create a paperless airport experience using a single biometric identifier such as a face, fingerprint or iris scan, has received a significant endorsement from the travelling public, courtesy of the association’s latest annual global passenger survey.
According to the 2019 questionnaire, 46% of passengers...
ANN RUPPENSTEIN
(Photo above: Chuck Crowder, Vice President of Sales & Distribution, WestJet)
When asked what misconceptions travellers have about WestJet, Chuck Crowder, Vice President of Sales & Distribution, points to the lingering image of its past, as the airline takes off on a transformation towards being a premium global carrier.
“We’ve just embarked on our journey to...
ANN RUPPENSTEIN
(Photo above: Hurricane Dorian temporarily left a small lake on Gold Rock Beach that can be seen during low tide.)
For Carmel Churchill of the Grand Bahama Island Tourism Board, Hurricane Dorian hit too close to home.
In the wake of the Category 5 storm in early September, nearly 77% of Grand Bahama Island, located 90 km east of Florida, was covered with floodwaters, in...
IAN STALKER
(Photo above: ScubaCaribe is happy to show divers the marine life found off Playa del Carmen’s shores. Photo courtesy/ Scubacaribe)
A Barcelona native diving instructor who’s relocated to Playa del Carmen says those eager to experience an underwater world can make do quite nicely without ocean when vacationing in the Mexican destination.
Javier, who works at...
