Destinations
Bermuda has some amazing stories to tell
One of the first things that Kiwan Anderson will tell you about Bermuda is that everyone has their own story about the island. “Everyone I talk to has these memories of what brought them to the island and what keeps bringing them back,” Anderson, who is the director of global PR & brand partnerships for the Bermuda Tourism Authority, told Travel Courier during a recent interview in Toronto. The Bermuda experience is personal in so many ways and that personal connection with the destination is something that Anderson says the tourism authority likes “to really lean...
The Faroe Islands: A Rugged Paradise in the North Atlantic
The Faroe Islands are probably not top of minds to many Canadian travellers. Ostensibly, it’s an independent state with an elected parliament that is closely allied to Denmark and represented by the Danish in the international arena. For many around the world, their first knowledge of the Faroes was from seeing them play soccer matches and causing the occasional upset in matches against more established countries such as Greece. Nestled between Iceland and Norway, north of the Shetland Islands, the Faroes are a small archipelago of islands with a modest population of approximately...
Canadian travel trade anticipating upcoming Mexico roadshows
One former and one current travel agent say they are eagerly awaiting upcoming Mexico roadshows in Quebec and Ontario, events they say will help fill a void left by the closure of Mexico Tourism Board offices. The Mexican government closed all tourism board offices over 5 years ago, announcing that it would turn over tourism promotion to Mexican diplomatic missions, a role critics said those missions were ill-equipped to handle. Mexico remains hugely popular with Canadians but many in the travel industry say it has a lower profile in this country at a time when there is strong...
Statistic Canada reports on travel between Canada and other countries
Statistics Canada reports that in June, the number of non-resident visitors to Canada represented 93.7% of the number observed in June 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. US residents took 2.9 million trips to Canada in June 2024, and residents of overseas countries took 745,900 trips. The number of returning Canadian residents reached 90.0% of the level recorded in June 2019 as Canadian residents returned from 3.8 million trips abroad in June 2024. Using seasonally adjusted data, compared with May, the number of non-resident arrivals in Canada (-2.0%) and...
AOT launches new brand, Vibrant Arizona
The Arizona Office of Tourism (AOT) has unveiled Vibrant Arizona -- a new brand that celebrates the state’s diversity and vibrant culture, unifies the identity of state government, and strengthens the state’s competitiveness as a top tourism and business destination. The multi-faceted Vibrant Arizona brand includes a logo highlighting Arizona’s diverse geography, a color palette inspired by Arizona’s natural beauty, and six defining pillars of the Arizona experience as shared by Arizonans. The brand was crafted by traveling hundreds of miles across Arizona and engaging more...
San Antonio making the Alamo more memorable
Remembering the Alamo will soon become much easier, with plans now unfolding to renew and update the original structures of the Alamo fortress, an historic UNESCO site in San Antonio, Texas. The comprehensive project will not only restore the original 300-year-old Alamo Church and Long Barrack, but will also re-establish the Alamo District, including the original mission site and battlefield footprint. The rallying cry “Remember the Alamo!” motivated a military response to the 1836 battle, when defenders of the fortress were overwhelmed by a much larger army of soldiers from...
Destination Canada launches Business Events’ Sustainability Storybook
Destination Canada’s Business Events team has launched the latest resource to come from its Canadian Business Events Sustainability Plan, Canada’s Sustainability Storybook. This sustainability storybook shares initiatives from communities which actively host business events and presents turnkey solutions to inspire and challenge business events decision makers, planners, sustainability professionals and host destinations, globally. It was presented at the recent American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) annual meeting and expo, where Destination Canada was ASAE’s...
Jamaica, Brazil forge tourism resilience partnership
The Jamaica-based Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC) and Brazil’s Ministry of Tourism have signed a groundbreaking Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to facilitate cooperation in boosting tourism resilience. The areas of cooperation covered under the MOU include: Climate resilience in tourism; Entrepreneurial tourism resilience; Tourism security resilience; and Tourism pandemic resilience. Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett revealed that the partnership will also see the establishment of a GTRCMC satellite centre at the University of San Luis....