A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of police officers involved in the death of a protester after the police opened fire at unarmed anti-government protestors demonstrating against the fuel price hike in southwestern region of Rambukkana. A 41-year-old father of two was killed and 13 others were […]
Month: April 2022
Written by Anemona Hartocollis In 2019, Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow appointed a committee of faculty members to investigate the university’s ties to slavery, as well as its legacy. Discussions about race were intensifying across the country. Students were demanding that the names of people involved in the slave trade […]
CELEBRATION, FL — Disney Cruise Line has unveiled its summer 2023 lineup featuring cruises to destinations around the world, including for the first time the Mediterranean and British Isles onboard the Disney Dream. A total of five ships will sail the season with a wide array of destinations for families […]
TORONTO — Travel agents are invited to learn all about the great state of North Carolina during an upcoming webinar on May 3. Hosted by Visit North Carolina’s Kosta Tsimiklis, National Travel Trade Account Manager (Canada), and titled ‘Exit to a Better Place,’ the session will cover the destination’s diverse […]
Written by Liz Alderman and Stanley Reed On the windswept coast of Flamanville, an industrial city in northwest France facing the choppy waters of the English Channel, a soaring concrete dome houses one of the world’s most powerful nuclear reactors. But when this hulking giant will begin supplying power to […]
MADRID — The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has suspended the Russian Federation from its ranks, effective immediately. Meeting for a first extraordinary UNWTO General Assembly, UNWTO members debated the suspension of Russia from the organization, as decided by the UNWTO Executive Council at its emergency meeting last month. According to […]
TORONTO — The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) is shaking and stirring things up by hosting private screenings of the James Bond feature film, ‘No Time to Die,’ and travel agents across Canada are invited. The film will play at select Cineplex theatres in Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario, starting in […]
When you think about host agencies, you probably don’t think corporate accounts. Is there support out there for small to medium sized corporate travel agencies? Or independent agents who have one or two corporate accounts? These days the line between corporate and leisure is often blurred. Knowing this, the Travel […]