IAN STALKER
(Photo above: Anderson Vacations clients can travel the Dempster Highway from Dawson City, Yukon Territory, to Inuvik, N.W.T.)
Anderson Vacations clients can see another sea.
The Calgary-based tour operator includes among its Tours of Distinction one that travels up the Dempster Highway – which links Dawson City, Yukon Territory, with the Arctic community of Inuvik, NWT –...
IAN STALKER
(Photo above: Dawson City carefully maintains its gold rush appearance.)
There are strange things done under the midnight sun – and when it comes to Dawson City, some unusual things are done when daylight is in shorter supply as well.
Paul Robitaille, marketing and events manager for the Klondike Visitors Association, Dawson City’s tourism promotion board, notes that among...
IAN STALKER
Northwest Territories tour company Tundra North Tours is inviting those who want to see see the northernmost fringes of mainland Canada during winter a form of accommodation that’s pretty cool, but which won’t stand the test of time.
The company, which sends people to the northwestern mainland reaches of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon’s Herschel Island – offers...
IAN STALKER
The Cuban city of Camaguey is making Havana look like something of a youngster.
Havana is this year celebrating its 500th anniversary, but Luis Viamontes Borras of tourist promotion office Infotur’s Camaguey office notes his city has already surpassed that milestone.
“We celebrated the city’s 505th anniversary last February,” he notes of a destination founded in...
IAN STALKER
The Havana-area National Botanic Garden amounts to a Garden of [tropical, desert and Japanese] Delights.
The facility, found some 25 kms from downtown Havana, is reportedly one of the 10 largest botanical gardens in the world at 550 hectares and has greenhouses showcasing the likes of tropical plants and others from dry climates, with vegetation from Yemen’s desert-like...
IAN STALKER
Pictured above: Desire Cruises welcomes those “looking to let loose”
Desire Cruises says passengers on its upcoming Red Carpet Cruise can at times dress up if they choose.
And, at other times, they needn’t dress at all.
May 2020’s Red Carpet Cruise through Mediterranean waters is the latest sailing from the Mexican company that has clothing-optional areas for...
IAN STALKER
The Great Lakes’ cruise potential is seen as great.
Tourism officials from both sides of the Canada-US Border gathered in Toronto May 31 to praise the massive water bodies for the opportunities they offer those who enjoy vacationing by boat.
The event was organized by Cruise the Great Lakes, an international partnership aimed at attracting more cruise passengers to the...
BOB MOWAT
While Sarain Fox may have a new title – she’s now a partner – with the TreadRight Foundation, as she sees it, all it does is “just expands some of the work that I can do in a more official way and broadens the scope of our relationship – the possibilities of the projects that we can be involved in together and how I can advocate from the TreadRight side as well now,...
IAN STALKER
Aeromexico aircraft can again be spotted in southern Alberta skies.
The carrier restarts Mexico City-Calgary service May 31, “starting a bit less ambitious” than the earlier service, with four weekly flights planned in the May-September period, compared
to the previous daily operation.
Paul Verhagen, the airline’s senior vice-president of international sales, says the...
IAN STALKER
Lisa Lau and Michael Yiptong believe size matters.
The co-founders of new Ontario-based tour operator, Okushu Tours, say it’s limiting group size to 16 clients and their guide, and they’re adamant that they will hold to that number, saying there’s good reason for doing so.
“We feel there are a lot of travellers who want to travel in a group but have a preconceived idea...
