Tour Operators
Insight puts America on show
Insight Vacations' new 2013-2014 USA & Canada brochure offers a wide range of premium and luxury itineraries that include a range of new inclusions and upgrades. Now, for a limited time, Insight is offering $400 in savings per couple on their 2013 USA & Canada trips. Cris David, president of Insight Vacations, said,"We are pleased to provide options that leave behind the big cities and delve into the immense natural beauty and diverse wildlife that exists in the USA, offered at a more leisurely pace." He pointed out that "We encourage travellers to discover their own backyard, and we're...
Merit partners with Me to We
Merit Travel Group is partnering with social enterprise, Me to We -- becoming the exclusive travel partner of Me to We Trips for Adult and Family Volunteer Adventures in Kenya, as well as the exclusive retail partner for Group Trips with university students to all Me to We destinations. Michael Merrithew, chairman and CEO of Merit Travel Group Inc, explained that: "Travelling with a purpose is an exciting trend in our industry and Merit strongly believes that the truly unique adventures and culture immersions provided by Me to We Trips will allow our clients to experience overseas travel in...
Trafalgar is tops with agents
Trafalgar Tours has been voted "favourite"motorcoach operator in the 2012 Agents' Choice Awards survey of Canadian travel agents. Shown here receiving the award is Trafalgar Canada president Doug Patterson. The survey was conducted earlier this year by Baxter Travel Media in Canadian Travel Press, Travel Courier and TravelPress.com. It is the 11th straight year for Trafalgar. For more winners and awards, click on the icon at https://www.travelpress.com...
Transat enhances commission program
Transat is redefining its commission program for travel agencies by offering commission on fuel surcharge and service fees for Transat Holidays and Nolitours package bookings, giving travel agents more compensation on each package they sell. As of Sept. 1, agents booking Sun, Florida or Europe vacation packages for departures as of Nov. 1 onwards will not only earn commission on the package base price, but on fuel surcharge and service fees as well. "This is one more initiative that demonstrates Transat's commitment to its travel agent partners,"says Denise Heffron, vice-president, National...
CarTrawler opens Facebook gateway
CarTrawler, has launched an open source version of its global car rental platform for Facebook. The CarTrawler car rental booking engine connects some of the world's top travel brands with over 879 car rental agents at 30,000 city and airport locations across 174 countries. The same advanced technology has now been packaged into a Facebook app, the source code of which can be downloaded free of charge from http://www.cartrawler.com. CarTrawler has already released of an open source car rental app for iPhone and the world's first mapping of car rental search results. The tools were designed to...
WestJet adding more sun
WestJet is adding four new sun destinations and extend two more from seasonal to year-round as part of its 2012-2013 winter schedule. In the Caribbean, WestJet is adding Antigua & Barbuda, Curacao and Costa Rica -- all from Toronto Pearson International Airport. The carrier's newest Mexican destination is Manzanillo, via Calgary International Airport. John MacLeod, WestJet's vice-president, alliances, strategy and chief network officer, said that: "The addition of these new sun destinations as part of our 2012-2013 winter schedule demonstrates our ongoing strategic focus on expanding our...
Kumuka shuts up shop
Kumuka Worldwide Inc has ceased trading. The company informed its customers and the travel trade in an announcement on its web site that any tours scheduled after July 22, 2012 would not operate and that travellers booked on trips after this date would need to re-book with another operator. In Ontario, Kumuka Worldwide Inc is located in Mississauga, Ontario and in an advisory on the TICO web site, it is indicated that the company voluntarily terminated its Ontario Travel Industry Act, 2002 registration to do business as a travel retailer and as a travel wholesaler in Ontario effective July...
Globus, Cosmos offer faith-based tour savings
Escorted tour specialists Globus and Cosmos have introduced a sale on all of their faith-based holidays for 2013. For group bookings (eight people or more travelling together) can now save $200 p.p. off every itinerary. Bookings and deposits must be made by Sept. 25. Tours encompass the Middle East (Israel and Jordan), Italy, Ireland, Germany, Greece and Turkey, France, Spain and Portugal. These holidays range from 10 to 12 days in duration....