IAN STALKER
Shannon Guihan is praising what she says is a growing number of Canadians interested in sustainable travel, while rapping the knuckles of some of those they choose to book their travel with.
Guihan, program director for The Travel Corporation-linked The TreadRight Foundation, says the number of Canadians who support sustainable tourism is on the upswing, with those travellers...
MIKE DUNBAR
Pictured above: Florida Governor Rick Scott (l) and Robert Dow, President and CEO, US Travel Association.
Florida’s governor has been honoured by the US Travel Association for his ongoing commitment to tourism, but largely for his protracted and ultimately successful legislative battle to maintain full funding for the state’s destination marketing...
IAN STALKER
Zach Fyne believes a combination of great winter snow and a catchy location for a distillery means Park City, Utah, offers thirsty schussers some great whi-ski.
Fyne, with the Park City Convention & Visitors Bureau, says the alpine resort community’s claims to fame include the High West Distillery & Saloon, the only distillery “in the world that you can ski into.”
The...
TED DAVIS
Pictured above: Sunrise from Tiger Hill in Darjeeling is greeted by crowds every morning.
Would-be mountaineers don’t have to look hard for inspiration when visiting Darjeeling, India.
This city near India’s northern border sits at 2,000-plus metres among the foothills and steeply creased valleys near the Himalayan range.
On a sunny and blue day, the massive bulk of...
IAN STALKER
Chaiwut Phakaew has made the transition from monk to mini-mountain man.
The one-time Buddhist monk now works as a guide on the Thai island of Koh Samui, where, among other things, he leads excursions to the tropical isle of Koh Nangyuan, home to a hill that visitors can hike up if they’re physically up to hoofing up some often steep and rugged terrain in likely steamy tropical...
IAN STALKER
Pictured above: A visitor to the Organic Agriculture Project is ready to pick mangoes with a net.
Pick and choose turns into choose and pick at times for those visiting the Organic Agriculture Project in Sukhothai, Thailand.
The project invites tourists to spend a morning trying typical Thai agricultural practices, among them planting rice by hand and harvesting mangoes with a...
IAN STALKER
Pictured above: Wanida Yaifay holds a towel shaped to resemble a monkey in a guest unit at the Mai Samui Beach Resort & Spa.
Those staying at the Mai Samui Beach Resort & Spa on the Thai island of Koh Samui are welcome to participate in a little monkey business.
Among resort classes available for guests at the five-star property are ones that teach them to fold towels...
IAN STALKER
An upcoming entrant in this country’s airlines scene is promising to remove less money from travellers’ pocketbooks when it comes to buying airfares.
Canada Jetlines is slated to begin operations in summer 2018, based in Hamilton and Region of Waterloo International Airport
in Ontario, and company CEO Stan Gadek says it will bring financial relief to Canadian air...
ANN RUPPENSTEIN
Pictured above: Alex Herrmann, director North America for Switzerland Tourism, and Pascal Prinz, the new market manager Canada for Switzerland Tourism, during a river cruise along the Rhine in Basel.
[caption id="attachment_98119" align="alignright" width="300"] The biannual Switzerland Travel Mart took place in Davos.[/caption]
Although Switzerland is in the middle of a...
IAN STALKER
Los Cabos wants to make tourism inroads into the eastern part of this country.
Rodrigo Esponda, who oversees the Los Cabos Tourism Board, told a recent Toronto gathering that his Pacific coast destination sees nonstop flights from eight Canadian cities, most of them in the West.
“We need to get more people from the East Coast … I’m sure with your help we’re going to,” he...
