Businesses were closed, teachers absent and public transportation interrupted as Sri Lankans heeded a call for a general strike Thursday to pressure the president to step down over a growing economic and political crisis. Business districts in the capital, Colombo, were closed, and bankers, teachers and other professionals held parades […]
Day: April 29, 2022
TORONTO — VISIT FLORIDA brought the sunshine to last night’s ‘A Taste of Florida’ event in Toronto where destination updates, Sunshine State-inspired cocktails and appetizers, a delicious dinner and prizes were all on tap. With stops in both Toronto and Montreal this week, the two-city Canada Sales Mission is highlighting […]
(Written by David Hutt) For years, Singapore has been considered a skilled practitioner of hedging between the world’s superpowers and not taking sides. Now it is one of the few Asian countries to openly condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Hours after Russian troops marched into Ukraine on February 24, Singapore’s […]
TORONTO — Las Vegas is back, bigger and better than ever before, with “100% capacity and 100% occupancy,” says David Han, Senior Account Representative for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Anyone visiting Las Vegas “will feel like they’re back in 2019,” Han joked, noting that all larger-than-life attractions, […]
TORONTO — Air Transat and WestJet have officially launched their new transatlantic codeshare. The two airlines first announced their plans to team up with a codeshare agreement back in November 2021. The news came seven months after the deal between Transat and Air Canada was terminated. Meanwhile in March 2022 WestJet Group […]
TORONTO — Shannon Smith has been promoted to Vice President of Training for TravelOnly. Gregory Luciani, TravelOnly President and CEO, made the announcement yesterday, noting that Smith led the training initiatives for all TravelOnly advisors across the country while navigating the many challenges of the pandemic. Smith is the one […]
MONTREAL — The federal transport minister says 37 passengers on a late-December party flight from Montreal to Mexico have been fined a total of $59,500. Omar Alghabra’s office says 42 tickets were issued, including 18 for non-compliance with vaccination requirements and 24 for violations of masking rules. Videos of the charter […]