IAN STALKER
Cancun’s Park Royal Beach Resort can offer its clientele both a Mexican vacation experience or a very Mexican vacation experience, with those guests able to choose the degree of familiarization they wish to have with the Latin American country.
Hotel general manager Luz del Carmen Ruiz Rodriguez says that her hotel – part of the Mexico City-based Park Royal Hotels and...
IAN STALKER
Carlos Joaquin would like to see those vacationing in Caribbean Sea-fronting Cancun and Playa del Carmen step inland for part of their holiday.
Joaquin, governor of the state of Quintana Roo, home to Mexico’s most popular beach destinations, says his jurisdiction has a host of other tourism attributes in addition to its famed sandy shores.
Joaquin labels those beaches...
IAN STALKER
Pictured above: Veronika Macas (r) of Butterfield & Robinson joined explora’s Lucy and Julio for refreshments after ompleting a hike in the Andes offered by explora Valle Sagrado.
Chilean resort company explora, which has a lodge in Andean Peru’s Sacred Valley, has teamed up with a prominent Peruvian chef who has created a menu featuring many Andean ingredients that...
ILONA KAUREMSZKY
Pictured above: Florida’s Paradise Coast, Naples, Marco Island and Everglades JoNell Modys, LaPlaya Beach and Golf Resort; Terry Campbell, National Sales Manager; and VISIT FLORIDA’S Erin Owens and Sam May.
For “the perfect” sunsets, look no further than the Sunshine State. Home to almost 1,200 miles of coastline, Florida has big street cred on the sunset...
ILONA KAUREMSZKY
There’s a key encounter of the extraordinary kind that awaits at one islet in the fabled Florida Keys.
Known as the only resort destination in the region with nearly every activity above and below the water right on property, groups staying at the Hawks Cay Resort (https://www.hawkscay.com/) in secluded Duck Key take off for the ultimate dolphin connection. Led by a...
MIKE DUNBAR
“Far too many governments in Latin America and the Caribbean see aviation and air travel as a target for heavy taxes and fees, and, in doing so, they are killing the golden goose. The value of aviation is not in the tax receipts that can be squeezed out of it, but rather in the economic growth and job creation it supports.”
That was the critical assessment delivered to a...
GREG COATES
Luxury cruise line Cunard has a soft spot for Canada – its founder Sir Samuel Cunard, after all, was a Canadian shipping magnate born in Halifax – and will this year and next spend more time in Canadian waters than ever before.
Josh Leibowitz, senior vice-president, Cunard, North America, recently spoke with Canadian Travel Press and said he believes that Canada is a real...
ANN RUPPENSTEIN
(Photo above: Holland America Line's newest ship, Nieuw Statendam )
It felt like I was venturing into the great unknown as I pulled my carry-on towards the loading ramp of Holland America Line’s newest ship, Nieuw Statendam, with my aunt in tow in the port of San Juan, Puerto Rico. While she hasn’t travelled much since having twins 18 years ago and I frequently find...
IAN STALKER
Lisa McLean says those who might be nervous about the prospect of guiding one of Le Boat’s houseboats along Ontario’s Rideau Canal this year should simply look at her own experience doing so.
McLean, Le Boat’s marketing manager for North and Latin America, and who admits she wasn’t any mariner before taking the helm of the Le Boat craft, says operating it turned out to...
TED DAVIS
Above: Achieving bucket-list travel goals is the prevailing travel motivator for Canadians in 2019, and Croatia (pictured) tops their list of emerging destinations, after finishing second to Iceland in 2018.
Travel retailers who specialize in luxury and specialty niche travel products continue to defy trends that indicate agents are in decline, says a report by the worldwide...
