BOB MOWAT
In the first part of a two-part interview with Flight Centre Canada’s Gavin Miller, the talk focuses on digital transformation and what that means for Flight Centre’s business in particular and the retail travel business in general.
Consider the hammer. Found in every toolbox. Indispensable for innumerable purposes. Yet without a human being picking it up and using it for the...
Are you ready to pick your favourites? Well, it’s that time again as Baxter Media launches the 2019 Agents’ Choice Readership Survey this week.
Agents’ Choice is Canada’s original and most authoritative travel industry poll and each year it asks Canadian travel agents to pick their favourite suppliers in over 40 different categories – ranging from airlines to tour operators;...
ANN RUPPENSTEIN
Ahead of its official opening this month, travel agents on location for the 11th annual Gourmet Inclusive Vacation Consultant Sales & Marketing Forum in December got an exclusive preview of Xolumado Inspiration Village by Karisma.
Located on 2.5 acres surrounded by lush vegetation, gardens and intertwining pathways, the property focuses on relaxation, rejuvenation and...
ANN RUPPENSTEIN
Forty-one Canadian travel agents were among the top producing travel agents celebrated recently at Karisma Hotels & Resorts’ 11th annual Gourmet Inclusive Vacation Consultant Sales & Marketing Forum held at the El Dorado Royale in the Riviera Maya.
“GIVC is about thanking and recognizing our agents,” said Marilyn Cairo, director of retail sales – North...
ANN RUPPENSTEIN
When it comes to what’s visually luring travellers into booking a particular hotel, it turns out the money shot isn’t just of the view, but also the loo.
“Oddly enough, a bathroom photo [is important],” Bonnie Vesterfelt, Expedia’s Toronto area manager tells Canadian Travel Press. “It does really help on an increase in Average Daily Rate, typically, if you have...
ILONA KAUREMSZKY
A queue as long as a rock concert lineup overtook the glittering Andros Ballroom at the Ensemble Travel Group’s Make-a-Wish Foundation charity raffle and live auction held during the Ensemble Circle of Excellence gala awards dinner at the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar in Nassau, Bahamas, late last fall.
It was as if Elvis were inside the building. Somehow, an electric buzz as...
TED DAVIS
Last summer, the plight of a diminishing species of killer whale in BC waters was highlighted in the media by the spectre of a southern resident killer whale carrying its dead infant for two weeks. The infant was apparently a victim of increasingly difficult conditions in the seas near Vancouver Island, including a shortage of the Chinook salmon that they feed on. The story and...
ANN RUPPENSTEIN
Over the course of the year, Canadian Travel Press’ Women in Travel series featured some remarkable individuals across the travel industry from Canada and around the world. In the second instalment of a year-end feature, some of the experts previously profiled in the section share their thoughts on the big trends for 2019.
#Trending: travelling with ease
Gillian Tans,...
TED DAVIS
Pictured above: Alana Baker
Home-sharing accommodations, which are typically portrayed as cheap and chummy alternatives to hotels, have other more negative aspects that have been revealed in a new study by the Hotel Association of Canada (HAC).
Research commissioned by HAC indicates that Canadians across the country have some issues with these short-term sharing rentals, such...
BOB MOWAT
Pictured above: Dan Hotels’ Eitan Sasson and Rafi Baeri.
Top officials from Dan Hotels were in Canada recently to meet with the travel trade and to get a sense of where the market was headed from the people on the ground here.
Asked about the significance of the Canadian market for Dan Hotels, the hotel company’s director of international marketing, Rafi Baeri told Canadian...
