IAN STALKER
(Photo above: Emirates crew member Kelsey Johnson and Heather Greenwood-Davis say parents can keep their children entertained while they’re travelling by air.)
Heather Greenwood-Davis isn’t kidding when she says it can be very rewarding for parents to travel with their youngins.
Greenwood-Davis, a mother of two teenagers who’s visited dozens of countries and who’s on...
MIKE DUNBAR
[Editor’s note: This is the seventh part of a multi-part series on the International Air Transport Association (IATA) by CTP’s Quebec editor, Mike Dunbar. This week, Dunbar focuses on IATA’s commitment to fighting human trafficking – a truly appalling crime which mainly targets women and children for forced labour, organ theft or sexual exploitation.]
In the four minutes...
BOB MOWAT
(Photo above: Members of the WestJet Sales team at the 2017 Travel Agent Partner Awards [STANDING from left to right: Tim Paul, Mike Miguel (retired), Jill Cutting, Michelle DaSilva, Leah Irvine, Todd Lindey, Matthew Djorsev, Candice Thomas, Shannon Cunningham, Kim Tobias, Emily Spadafora, Nadir Sunay, Joshua Knox, Christian Roussin, Robert Dungan, Kim Barbisan; SEATED from left to...
MIKE DUNBAR
(Photo above: IATA’s Hemant Mistry)
[Editor’s note: This is the sixth part of a multi-part series on the International Air Transport Association (IATA) by CTP’s Quebec editor, Mike Dunbar. This week, find out what the New Experience Travel Technologies initiative is all about.]
When one looks at the world’s top 100 airports, in terms of passenger volume, nearly all...
MIKE DUNBAR
(Photo above: IATA’s Alexandre de Juniac)
As expected, IATA CEO Alexandre de Juniac took aim at infrastructure shortcomings on this side of the Atlantic when he recently keynoted at Aviation Day USA in New York.
Pulling no punches, de Juniac stated, “I believe that we are headed for an infrastructure crisis – and that includes in the US – where we expect passenger...
IAN STALKER
(Photo above: Tren Ecuador’s Diana Guevara (red jacket and Panama hat) stands next to tour guide Sebastian Cardenas during a train stop in a remote Andean community.)
Tren Ecuador has decided to sacrifice some much sought-after discomfort.
The Ecuadorian train company provides train travel in different parts of Ecuador, including the Devil’s Nose Tram, which has journeys...
BOB MOWAT
(Photo above: Disney’s Claire Bilby and Marlie Morrison pictured during the Toy Story Land North America Tour’s stop in Toronto earlier this month.)
One of the first things that Claire Bilby, senior vice-president, sales & service for Walt Disney World, told a group of about 300 travel agents and tour operators in Toronto recently was “my team and I are your advocates...
ARMANDO MENDONÇA
(Photo above: The beautiful Mirabell Palace & Gardens in Salzburg.)
On May 21, 2011, my visit to Vienna, this particular time, did not prepare me for what was the greatest show on earth known as, Life Ball, an annual event taking place this year on June the second, 2018 supporting HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention since 1993. The organizer and co-founder, Gery Keszler,...
ANN RUPPENSTEIN
Saint Lucia’s tourism minister Dominic Fedee references American rapper Ludacris when describing the unique experiences that await travellers in the Caribbean island.
“Saint Lucia is easily the most exciting destination in the Caribbean,” he tells Canadian Travel Press. “There’s nowhere else in the Caribbean where you can interface with a volcano the way you can with...
BOB MOWAT
“It’s the best it has ever been,” responded Virgilio Russi when he was asked about Air Canada’s relationship with travel agents. “I think there has been a conscious effort from our side to improve that relationship and to set different parameters to the relationship – the focus has really been on partnership.”
Russi, senior director sales, Canada for the airline, told...
