Destinations
Reps4Rent Is Ready To Serve
Spotting a void in the Canadian travel business, well-known industry veteran Dianne Jackson has launched Reps4Rent – a company that will provide short-term or project-based representation, consultation and other services geared to the needs of tour operators, tourist boards, hoteliers, cruise lines, airlines and retail travel agencies. Jackson, who has over 35 years in senior management roles in the Canadian travel industry, observed: “As we come out of the pandemic, it has become so clear that our industry can no longer sustain the larger sales teams of yesterday.” And she...
What’s Playing in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Tourism is inviting visitors to discover what’s “Now Playing” in the City of Angels with the kickoff of a new advertising campaign that shines the spotlight on wide range of attractions, experiences, entertainment and accommodations that can only be found in L.A. Shot on location at several iconic L.A. sites, the spot combines live-action film, music, animation and voiceover to create a dazzling mix of campaign content. Leading the campaign is a dynamic 30 second ad portraying a writer at work on an ever-changing screenplay that follows a group of friends as they...
Finding New Solutions
Fairmont Pacific Rim has announced the elimination of non-essential single-use plastics from its guest journey, including throughout its public spaces, guest rooms, dining venues and spa. The milestone was verified by British Columbia-based GreenStep Solutions Inc., a Certified B Corporation dedicated to providing organizations with environmental impact performance assessments, technology and certifications to measure and improve sustainability performance. In 2018, Fairmont Pacific Rim and GreenStep Solutions Inc. began the journey to elimination through an extensive audit...
South Africa Sees North American Arrivals Rise
Buoyed by reports that the US was South Africa’s top source market for overseas travel in 2021, top executives from South African Tourism launched a series of Global Advocacy Engagements visiting Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York City to help build on that momentum with trade, media and stakeholders in this important market. While in Los Angeles meeting with the South African Consulate General and stakeholders, acting CEO Themba Khumalo, shared that arrival figures for 2022 continue to inspire optimism, with 76,994 Americans having already visited South Africa as of May 2022. US...
Iceland Is Calling
Baking bread with lava? It’s a thing. While Iceland is widely known for serving up tasty hot dogs — made mainly from lamb instead of the typical pork — or skyr — a dairy product that’s like a thick yogurt — there’s another memorable dish that’s worth sinking your teeth into. In the town of Laugarvatn, travellers can devour rye bread after it’s been baked in the ground for 24hours from heat generated by a volcanic hot spring. Now, it doesn’t get much fresher — or more Instagram-worthy — than that. Of course, the culinary options across the island don’t end...
Discover America Canada Blasts Off
John Herrington's journey through life has clearly seen astonishing high points and perhaps some somewhat disappointing low ones. The former NASA astronaut was the guest speaker at a Thursday (Sept. 15) Toronto Discover America Canada event, recounting travelling upwards in an incredibly dramatic fashion to the International Space Station on a 13-day Space Shuttle Endeavour mission in 2002. Herrington's talk was marked by dramatic images of the International Space Station and the Earth taken from Space, including a New Zealand channel that British explorer Captain Cook centuries...
Caribbean At Risk Of Pricing Out Of Market
The price is not right. Driving home the point that “some Caribbean states are pricing themselves out of the global travel and tourism competition,” Peter Cerdá, Regional Vice President, The Americas for IATA, kicked off the 4th Caribbean Aviation Day held in the Cayman Islands by doing a price comparison between travel destinations. For example, a flight for an eight day vacation from London to Bridgetown in October is around $800, but a flight from London to Dubai for the exact same time frame is around $600. “For a family of four, that is an $800 difference just for the...
Rebuilding The Industry Together
The ACTA 2022 Eastern Canada Travel Industry Summit, which is a national conference from the Association of Canadian Travel Agencies (ACTA), kicked off a three-city whistle stop national tour in Toronto yesterday, reports Press Today’s Ilona Kauremszky. The travel trade show, on hiatus since the start of the pandemic, and which usually convened provincially, held its first in-person summit at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre. Travel agents, industry partners and key stakeholder suppliers participated in a full-day of seminars, giving participants the inside scoop on a variety of...