Destinations
Agents Race To Discover Portugal’s UNESCO City
Air Canada and United Airlines recently joined forces with Visit Portugal to create and operate a challenging, clue-filled contest giving selected travel advisors the opportunity to discover the world heritage city of Evora, in the region of Alentejo, Portugal. Teams of travel agents from Canada and the U.S. employed the best of their detective skills and other talents in attempts to win the Air Canada-United Airlines Race. Talents that were employed ran the gamut from taste and scent tests to illustrating, writing and video production challenges. On hand to witness the race and...
Expedia Group, Brand USA Partner On New Initiative
Expedia Group Media Solutions has unveiled a new media platform that gives travellers the tools to shop and book travel as they are watching travel content, making entertainment tourism bookable. Using the “shoppable” platform technology, the company is partnering with Brand USA to create a channel for their content to be ‘shopped,’ called GoUSA. Featuring Brand USA’s inspirational travel content and interactive maps, the innovative hub showcases the breadth and depth of engaging travel content for a diversity of trips across the USA while simultaneously giving travellers...
A New Chapter Unfolds At Seadust Cancun
Our group is enjoying a refreshing dip in the vivid blue waters of a cenote in the Puerto Morelos area — roughly one hour from Cancun’s Hotel Zone — when a tour guide from Cenotes Zapote Prehistoric Park emerges from a platform above and shouts: “Do you want to know what was found in this very cenote? I’ll tell you when you get out of the water!” Before moving onto the next cenote on the property, which includes an aquatic zip line for any thrill seekers, our guide explains that the fossilized skull of a prehistoric sloth dating back to between 10,647 and 10,305 BC was...
Tourism Ireland Campaign Goes Live In Canada
Tourism Ireland’s new global campaign – ‘Fill your heart with Ireland’ – is going live in Canada this week. The campaign is all about celebrating the different ways in which the island of Ireland fills the hearts of our visitors and of locals – and inviting potential holidaymakers to experience those for themselves. It’s an advocacy-led campaign, starring a selection of famous Irish personalities sharing the things about Ireland which fill their hearts and dialling up what differentiates Ireland from other destinations. The new ads will shine a light on Ireland’s...
The Bahamas Reinforces Commitment To Agents
The Bahamas Tourist Office's Canadian office has unveiled its new home, an opening that comes at a particularly memorable time for the Bahamas, which this year is marking 50 years of independence with ongoing festivities. The tourist office welcomed travel industry personnel to its new Toronto office Monday, providing them with tours of the spacious new setup. The office is found where busy Eglinton Ave. intersects Yonge St., the city's main thoroughfare. The previous office was considerably more distant from downtown Toronto. Some tourist boards have closed their physical...
“Discover New Experiences” At One Dream Road Shows
One Dream Travel, China Airlines, the Taiwan Tourism Bureau and the Philippines Department of Tourism are teaming up for a joint promotion and are hosting a series of Road Shows in British Columbia and Alberta in May and June 2023. The Road Shows will provide travel advisors with destination updates from Taiwan and the Philippines; product and service updates from Taiwan’s China Airlines; and One Dream Travel will offer advisors the opportunity to “Discover New Experiences” of Taiwan & the Philippines. Those attending will have a chance to win a trip to Taiwan &...
Agents Can Compete In Jamaica Cooking Challenge
The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) is cooking up some fun with the launch of the Jamaica Cooking Challenge that comes with an invitation to travel advisors to recreate a taste of the island at home. Each month, the JTB Canada sales team releases a new cooking video featuring an authentic Jamaican recipe prepared with step-by-step instructions by Chef Latoya Fagan. Agents are encouraged to prepare the recipe at home and share a photo of their finished dish for a chance to win delicious prizes each month. Travel advisors will have the chance to learn how to cook a variety of...
Santa Monica Shines At YVR Event
Supplier reps from the beach community of Santa Monica were in Vancouver recently to remind travel advisors that their town is the most convenient and welcoming place from which to explore the beach attractions of Los Angeles and beyond. Situated just 13 km. from L.A. International Airport (LAX), Santa Monica offers easy access to California’s famous Pacific coast destinations, as well as L.A.’s own lush beaches and urban destinations. These include Beverly Hills at 10.6 km. away, West Hollywood at 19 km. distant and Universal Studios at 34 km. away. Given its ideal location,...