IAN STALKER
(Photo above: Tour guide Chanyalew Gebremdehin stands besides a fallen obelisk in the city of Axum.)
Ethiopian tourism officials are inviting tourists to follow in some regal footsteps they proudly state also belonged to a storied Biblical figure.
Those officials boast that the city of Axum stands on a site where the Queen of Sheba once held sway, and those visiting it will see...
IAN STALKER
Puangpen Klanwari, director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s Canadian office, holds a colourful Elephant Parade carving. With Klanwari are her colleagues Viktor Spysak and Kayla Shubert.
Small Thai carvings can help safeguard large Thai creatures.
Thai tourism authorities say those who visit Thailand and are sympathetic about the welfare of the country’s elephant...
IAN STALKER
(Photo above: Dramatic sunsets await those visiting St. Vincent and the Grenadines.)
Last year’s opening of Argyle International Airport has given the tourist trade in St. Vincent and the Grenadines a major shot in the arm, with Canadians among others giving more attention to a destination that has become easier for us to reach.
The facility has meant the island of St....
IAN STALKER
(Photo above: On hand at a Toronto event promoting Barbados were Stacey Hutchinson of Barbados Tourism Marketing, a server offering rum punches, Ethel Hansen Davey of Uniglobe and Dave Cox of Living Barbados magazine.)
Barbados Tourism Marketing wants to dispel any belief that Barbados can’t cater to those who like to vacation at all-inclusive resorts, a vacation experience...
IAN STALKER
(Photo above: Joanne Pawlicki (l) and Patrick Leavey of The CN Tower and Jennifer Mason of Strategic Marketing were among those on hand for TIAC’s Town Hall event in Toronto.)
Several prominent people in the tourism trade want people outside their industry to show a little more love for travel and tourism.
Tourism Toronto head Johanne Belanger told a recent TIAC town hall...
BOB MOWAT
(Photos courtesy/ JAMAICA TOURIST BOARD)
(In the final part of this two-part series, Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett sits down with CTP to talk about some of the big disruptors in the world today, how they impact on tourism and how the industry can combat some of those impacts.)
Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett arrived in Toronto in early...
TED DAVIS
(Photo above: Boracay is the most popular beach destination in the Philippines.)
The complete closure of Boracay island in the Philippines – to restore the island’s overused, damaged environment and infrastructure – will be ending soon.
Boracay entered a period of closure to tourism in April of this year, for a period of six months, as specified by the government of...
ERIC BARBER
Global tourism has been enjoying buoyant times, as the world came out of the last recession during the sub-prime lending crisis. There have been significant variables that have facilitated this that reach right across all segments of the tourism industry, and factors that are not tourism related that have benefited us.
The aviation industry has been the impetus behind much of this...
BOB MOWAT
(Photo above: Jane Clementino)
Summer is over and it’s time to get back to work.
And that’s exactly what WestJet and its travel agency partners will be doing as the Calgary-based carrier realigns its fare class structure and moves to a multi-cabin configuration on all of its aircraft on Sept. 15.
Jane Clementino, Director, Agency Sales for WestJet, explained that the fare...
BOB MOWAT
(Photo above: Dropping by to chat with Canadian Travel Press recently, from l to r, are Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett; the JTB’s regional director Canada, Philip Rose; the Jamaica Tourist Board’s director of tourism, Donovan White.)
(In the first part of a two-part series, Jamaica’s director of tourism, Donovan White sits down with Canadian Travel Press...
