Tour Operators
AAT Kings Program Highlights Australia Aboriginal Culture
AAT Kings has unveiled its new Aboriginal Culture & Australia Highlights tour, as part of the group’s new 2024/2025 touring season. The limited season, Australia-first Indigenous focused guided holiday features must-see destinations from city to Outback across Melbourne, Uluru, Sydney and Cairns over 13 days, with a focus on local connection, cultural immersion, sustainable footprints and wildlife and nature. The Aboriginal Culture & Australia Highlights tour has been developed in response to Tourism Australia’s consumer insights, outlined in the global ‘Future of...
ACV Launches Early Bird Savings For Europe 2024
Air Canada Vacations is reintroducing its Book Europe Early offer allowing Canadians to save while booking their European vacation. ACV’s 2024 Europe Program offers ready-to-book packages tailored to meet every travel style. Travellers can book their tour, Flight & Cruise or Flight & Hotel packages in 12 countries across Europe giving early planners flexibility to plan their dream escape through their favourite travel professional. With the inclusion of new Scandinavian tours departing from Copenhagen, Air Canada Vacations' European packages now offer more options than...
ACTA Calling For Ontario Travel Industry Act Overhaul
In providing feedback on TICO’s Funding Framework and Fee Review Proposals, ACTA says that it’s time to “finally fix this 40-year-old legislation and its regulations which in no way reflect the environment of the Ontario travel industry.” ACTA provided its feedback in an effort to assist Ontario travel registrants participating in consultations with TICO on the proposals. Wendy Paradis, president of ACTA, observed: “Overall, we find TICO’s proposals to be essentially cosmetic changes. These are band aids on a broken system. The proposed funding framework is not based on...
TTAND’s Chen Yu Named Top ChangeMaker In G Adventures Global Incentive
The Travel Agent Next Door’s Chen Yu has been named the top agent in G Adventures’ four-month long incentive – which ran from March to June 2023 -- called ChangeMakers. The global incentive recognized the top 8 agents from each market worldwide and TTAND agent Chen Yu was the number one agent for ‘most lives changed’ in Canada as well as in the world. David Green, VP Sales and Managing Director Canada, G Adventures, said: “Chen has been the most amazing agent of change for G Adventures over many years. She is the perfect partner, she's someone who works closely within...
A New Fam Experience From TTC Tour Brands
TTC Tour Brands has released details of a new familiarization trip created for the BIPOC travel advisor community with guided vacation company, Trafalgar. Sense of Europe Familiarization Trip, a 7-day itinerary taking place March 11to March 17, 2024, will travel from Prague to Vienna and Budapest. The Eastern European travel experience gives advisors the opportunity to engage and network with peers within the BIPOC community and discover the history, architecture, culture and cuisine of the region with Trafalgar. According to Melissa DaSilva, President of TTC Tour Brands North...
Organizing The Industry One Adventure At A Time
One of the things that Travis Pittman will tell you about TourRadar is that its vision of what it wanted to be, has been constant since the beginning. “We had a vision of bringing the industry together and it’s really interesting because I look back on my original pitch decks from that time and we’re actually still doing the same thing that we said we were going to do,” said Pittman, who is the company’s CEO and co-founded TourRadar with his brother, Shawn. Now, admittedly, there were some twists and turns, but there were also some ‘eureka moments,’ so to...
Baxter Student Ambassador Program Turns 10 and Looks Ahead To The Future
The Baxter Student Ambassador Program (BSAP) is celebrating its 10th anniversary, ushering in a new era for the program which for a decade has existed to: ENCOURAGE young people to get involved in the travel industry FOSTER networking opportunities for graduating students MENTOR the next generation of travel professionals CULTIVATE engagement in the travel industry Our vision is to see the Canadian travel, tourism and hospitality industry thriving. We’re committed to identifying the industry’s most-promising student talent at Canada’s leading colleges and...
TourRadar Building A ‘Bigger Pie’ At Adventure Together 2023
TourRadar wrapped up its annual event, Adventure Together yesterday (Oct. 19), successfully bringing together over 1,800 travel industry professionals and thought leaders from 102 countries in-person in Vienna at the Palais Wertheim and online. Attendees had the opportunity to participate in roundtables, panel discussions, and sessions covering key trends and challenges facing the multi-day organized adventure industry. Topics ranged from sustainability and diversity to innovation and future-proof growth. The hybrid event also featured networking opportunities and extras tailored to...