TORONTO — The cruise industry’s comeback in the past year has been on a steep and steady incline, with many travellers once again feeling safe enough to board a ship and set sail. According to the Global Rescue Summer 2022 Traveler Safety and Sentiment Survey, which went out to more […]
Day: August 5, 2022
TORONTO — The Greater Toronto Airports Authority is on a mission to get Toronto’s Pearson Airport back to its award-winning ways. President and CEO Deborah Flint said this morning that the GTAA wants to “restore predictability and reliability to the air travel experience.” “We know that travel has not been […]
CALGARY — WestJet completed 97.5% of all scheduled flights across the month of July 2022, with 82% of all scheduled and operated flights arriving within 45 minutes of scheduled arrival time. WestJet says this puts the carrier ahead of the major Canadian air carriers. “Our latest performance reflects the responsible […]
TERCEIRA, THE AZORES — SATA Azores Airlines’ new flights to the Azores from Montreal’s Trudeau airport are taking off in a big way. Travelweek Group’s news source for the French-speaking travel trade, Profession Voyages, experienced the carrier’s inflight service as part of a trip to the Azores earlier this summer. […]
TORONTO — ACTA has submitted several key recommendations that support travel agencies and independent travel agents in response to the Government of Canada’s renewed Tourism Growth Strategy. As part of the Federal Budget 2022, the federal government opened a stakeholder consultation on its Tourism Growth Strategy to plot a course […]
CYPRUS — Swan Hellenic has named Gordon Dirker as the company’s Vice President of Sales, North America, effective Aug. 8. Dirker’s 24+ years of senior-level cruise and travel industry experience, includes his latest position as VP Business Development, Americas, at Celestyal Cruises, and VP Americas of Hurtigruten. Before that Dirker […]
SEATTLE — Quark Expeditions is celebrating the launch of its 2022 Canadian Arctic season with the successful inaugural voyage of the Ultramarine. On Aug. 1, 2022, the new vessel embarked on the 17-day Northwest Passage: In the Footsteps of Franklin voyage, one of the operator’s five expeditions that explore the Canadian […]