MIKE DUNBAR
(Photo above: Mike Foster with agents at Connexion)
Host agency Nexion Canada is celebrating its first five years in business, lauding a half-decade of “extraordinary growth,” but that’s just the beginning, according to chief exec Mike Foster, who’s predicting another half-decade of membership expansion down the road.
He told CTP, “Our aim was to have 350...
TED DAVIS
(Photo above: Diamond Head rises above the soft white sand at Waikiki Beach in Hawai’i.)
Some of the core qualities underlying the Hawai’i tourism success story are applicable across the board to all destinations. These are driving the agenda at the upcoming 2018 Global Tourism Summit in Waikiki in early October.
For example, sustainability continues to be a fundamental theme...
ILONA KAUREMSZKY
(Photo above: TL Network Canada’s Christine James (l) with Manulife’s Dan Martell and Shelley Kopys)
Considered an untapped revenue stream, TL Network agents are witnessing growth in this growing adventure travel segment.
According to a joint survey released last month at the Edge Conference from the Travel Leaders Group/Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA), the...
BRETT WALKER
[In the wake of the NATO Summit in Brussels and the apocalyptic meeting with Russian president, Vladimir Putin, Brett Walker offers a timely and insightful commentary in this week’s issue of Canadian Travel Press on what Donald Trump’s “America First” trade policy could mean for the travel and tourism industry, and the critical role that consumer choice will have as things...
It’s a year of fresh starts for a resort lodge in the Canadian Rockies that has been recently reinvented by $36 million in renovations – that includes a name change and the recent addition of Alberta’s first Nordic spa.
The property formerly known as the Delta Lodge at Kananaskis has been rebranded as the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge, an Autograph Collection Hotel. The...
(photo above courtesy BEN GIESBRECHT)
TED DAVIS
The largest-ever representation of Canadian Indigenous tourism operations to attend the Rendez-vous Canada international travel trade market attended this year’s edition of the event. RVC 2018 in Halifax welcomed 41 Indigenous tourism businesses, each of which held appointments with tourism product buyers from around the world to promote new...
IAN STALKER
Hitting the right sub-surface notes can enable those visiting the Churchill, Man., area to get up close and personal with some weighty aquatic creatures that some see as having a musical bent.
Winnipeg-based Frontiers North – which sends clients to Churchill, some of whom opt for the famed polar bear tours – is inviting tourists to snorkel near beluga whales on Belugas,...
IAN STALKER
Arctic Kingdom is inviting people to go with the floe.
The Ontario-based tour operator, which sends people to northern locales, will next year have clients camping on an ice floe in Navy Board Inlet, Nunavut, an area it says is certain to appeal to nature enthusiasts.
Seven-day departures are planned from May 13 to June 25.
“Arctic Kingdom is the only tour operator...
ANN RUPPENSTEIN
During the planning stages for Serenity at Coconut Bay, the new all-inclusive, adults-only luxury resort in Saint Lucia, president and CEO Mark Adams wasn’t deterred by the fact that the ground didn’t quite measure up, so to say.
“If you would have come to the site before we built the pool, you would have been shocked that the ground was probably eight feet below the...
IAN STALKER
(photo above: Barbados is known for its gorgeous beaches.)
A weighty name in Caribbean tourism circles is adding clout to Barbados’ hotel room inventory.
Peter Mayers, Canadian director for Barbados Tourism Marketing, says those vacationing on his island can get the “royal treatment at Sandals Royal Barbados,” an all-suite resort that features several firsts for Sandals,...
