Destinations
Avoid The Kitch At The Black Lagoon
Enter this bar freely and of your own will... Kelsey Ramage says travel agents with clients who are major Halloween enthusiasts will be certain to appreciate her "pop-up" Toronto Black Lagoon bar, which will run from Oct. 1-31, and by patronizing it avoid the "kitchy" pumpkins and other Halloween decor other bars frequently sport in October. Similar Black Lagoon pop-up bars will also be found in Montreal, Vancouver and 6 American cities. "My business partner and I really love the macabre," says Ramsay, whose bar will feature the likes of upright coffins, a Pagan calendar and...
VoX International Adds D’Andrea To The Team
Carla D’Andrea is joining the VoX International team to assist with the Tourism Australia account and other projects. D’Andrea is well known in the industry. During the past two years, she worked with Queen Street bakery, promoting their gluten free products to restaurants and bakeries. She also spent 11 years working with Canlink Travel, representing a collection of luxury properties. Her experience also includes a role as Key Account Manager for Conquest Vacations and as District Sales Manager for Intair. She will be based in Toronto primarily working on the Tourism Australia...
Discover The Spirit Of The West Midlands
Walking through the streets of Coventry, tour guide Roger Bailey is eager to share a story that’s “a thousand years in the making.” The legend goes that Lady Godiva, a key figure in the history of the region, pleaded with her husband to provide a tax break for local residents. “He said no, but she didn’t give up, she came back to him again and again, so many times he got so fed up, he decided to give her an impossible challenge, thinking she wouldn’t do it — ride through the streets of Coventry naked — and if you do this, I’ll lift the taxes,” explains Bailey....
Lending A Helping Hand To Helping Hands Jamaica
Canadian travel agents joined forces with the Canadian-based Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation (HHJF) to help build a preschool and kindergarten in Linstead, St. Catherine, Jamaica earlier this month. A philanthropic team of donors and supporters including Kisko Products employees, travel advisors and other supporters assisted in the construction of Bourne Gordon’s Pre-school and Kindergarten. The five-classroom build was completed with an office area, sick bay and staff and student bathrooms. The school structure also boasts a kitchen stocked with appliances and amenities such as...
The Signs Are There
Destination Canada released its Quarterly Tourism Snapshot -- which provides an ongoing monitor of the performance of Canada’s tourism sector – and it found that Canada’s tourism industry is showing strong signs of recovery in the second quarter. Some of the key findings of the report include: Travel to Canada is in demand, with Google search from international markets exceeding 2019 levels. Buoyed by hotel occupancy in regions exceeding their 2019 levels and lifts in urban areas closing in on their pre-pandemic performance, average hotel occupancy in June 2022 for Canada...
Air Canada Ramps Up Service To Korea
An increase in frequencies is upcoming for the schedule of flights that Air Canada operates between Canada and South Korea. The airline currently operates four flights per week between Toronto YYZ and Seoul-Incheon ICN. That is set to increase to up to five flights per week for September and October. Meanwhile, the Air Canada schedule of flights between Seoul and Vancouver YVR operates on a daily basis. The Vancouver route gets a B777-300, while a 787-900 Dreamliner is on the Toronto routing. Air Canada brought news of its services to Vancouver recently, in partnership with the...
What Keeps You Up At Night?
If you ask, Joel Ostrov, president – Canada East for Direct Travel what keeps him up at night, he’ll tell you: “My only concern for the future of this industry is the number of great people the travel industry as a whole has lost during the pandemic, many of whom will never return to the business … As an industry, the travel sector needs to find a way to attract new and younger talent to this wonderful business.” Ostrov also weighed in on whether the industry’s recovery was going the way that he’d expected it to go. He told Canadian Travel Press that: “In some ways,...
What’s Taking So Long?
The latest government and industry actions; continued action to advance the rights of travellers; collaborating with partners to find solutions; increasing staffing for security screening; and ArriveCAN were all covered in a recent update on action and progress made on reducing traveller wait times and delays across Canadian airports were all covered in an update delivered this week by Transport Minister, Omar Alghabra; Health Minister, Jean-Yves Duclos; Public Safety Minister, Marco Mendicino; and Tourism Minister and Associate Minister of Finance, Randy Boissonnault. The ministers...