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Ukraine International Airlines has begun a long-awaited goal of serving as an airborne link between this country and Ukraine.
June 6 saw the airline begin non-stop Toronto-Kiev service, with the Monday, Wednesday and Saturday flights using B767-300ER aircraft with three classes of service.
The airline marked the launch by offering fares starting at $875 for travel to Kiev...
(photo above: McCormack)
MIKE DUNBAR
Australia is now the world’s 10th largest international tourist destination, and, according to World Tourism Organization data, enjoys the number one slot in terms of visitor spend per trip.
That was the good news shared by the nation’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Michael McCormack during IATA’s 74th...
MIKE DUNBAR
For the past four decades, the Worldwide Slot Guidelines (WSG) system has been used to allocate capacity at airports that are at or near capacity. Each year, some 1.5 billion passengers fly from 195 slot coordinated airports and, while the guidelines are “great” at managing scarce capacity, they are not an alternative for building more airports, according to IATA director...
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Nelvin Duarte and Mariam Romero note their employer can provide guests with an up-and-down experience.
Duarte and Romero work with Pure Trek, which says that its half-day canyoning experience offers those visiting the Arenal area of Costa Rica the “ultimate waterfall rappel,” with participants rappelling down one rock wall and three waterfalls, and also undertaking the...
Seen here (l-r) are Baxter Media’s David McClung; Goway founder, Bruce Hodge with the W.H. Baxter Lifetime Achievement Award; and Hodge’s life-long friend, Rod Hurd.
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Bruce Hodge, who founded Toronto-based Goway Travel nearly 50 years ago, received the W.H.Baxter Lifetime Achievement Award at the Agents' Choice Gala, an award that paid tribute to a man who has been shaping...
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Daniel Berrocal is understandably no fan of the blockbuster movie, Jaws.
Berrocal is with Dive Costa Rica Islands, which sends people on 10-day shipborne packages to Costa Rica’s Cocos Island, where they’ll spend a week diving with rays, whales, dolphins and schools of fish.
And sharks as well.
“It’s really known for its biodiversity,” Berrocal’s colleague Onditz...
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(Photo above: A tourist picks coffee beans on the Mi Cafecito Coffee Tour.)
Photo courtesy MI CAFECITO COFFEE TOUR
Tourists going on Costa Rica’s Mi Cafecito Coffee Tour can have a cup of Joe that other tourists may have played a key role in.
The tours, found near interior Costa Rica’s Poas Volcano, can have visitors both plant coffee and pick coffee beans, says the...
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(Photo above courtesy THE TRAVEL CORPORATION)
Thierry Tessier is a man on the move and so is his hotel.
The veteran French hotelier’s latest project has him preparing to open what he and Small Luxury Hotels of the World says will be the world’s first “wandering hotel,” with the property expected to open in Salento, Italy, this fall then move to Siem Reap, Cambodia,...
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(Photo above: Trendy Sayulita is one of many Riviera Nayarit destinations welcoming visitors.)
Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit is preparing to add more hotel rooms as the fast-growing region’s popularity shows no signs of abating.
The Pacific Coast region now has some 15,000 hotel rooms, and says Carlos Eguiarte, the Riviera Nayarit’s sales & promotion coordinator, it is...
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Growing air links between this country and Mexico aren’t alarming Aeromexico, one of the several carriers carrying people between Canada and the Latin American country.
Aeromexico joins Air Canada and Interjet in delivering Canadians to Mexico City, and there are also several airlines linking points in Canada with other destinations in Mexico.
But Paul Verhagen, Aeromexico’s...
