As this year's crop of Baxter Student Ambassadors and tourism students from across the country gear up to join the travel industry, Travel Courier caught up with travel pros to hear their words of wisdom for new grads, insights they wish they knew when they first graduated and some...
Ann Ruppenstein. CELEBRATING TRAVEL ADVISORS TODAY AND EVERY DAYOne of my favourite Baxter Media publications that I get to work on is the annual Travel Agent Appreciation edition because we get to highlight remarkable travel advisors from across the country. This is the ninth year that we’ve been...
From a downturn in U.S. bookings to a surge in trips to Africa, travel advisors reveal what’s trending and where clients are going U.S. travel slows but bucket list travel remains hot I’ve had one cancellation for an Alaska cruise but then five new bookings on the same day for Alaska sailings....
Tell us a little about yourself and how long you've been in the industry?Twenty-six years ago, I took the leap at Compu College School of Business in downtown Victoria, B.C. and obtained my Travel & Tourism diploma (ironically this location is now the passport office). I was hired...
Tell us a little about yourself and how long you've been in the industry? Hi, I’m Carmen and made a stretch more than a decade ago to move from an accounting and notary public career to a proud travel agency owner of Klondike Travel & Yukon Tours in Whitehorse, Yukon, in Canada's...
Tell us a little about yourself and how long you've been in the industry? I consider myself a well-travelled agent with coming up to 30 years of experience in an industry that has seen many changes and twists. I live in Guelph, Ontario with my 13-year-old Standard Poodle Jake and three...
Tell us a little about yourself and how long you've been in the industry? Forty-two years ago, I began my career as a leisure travel agent with the established and very British, Thomas Cook Travel at Bay & Bloor in Toronto. There was one Reservac in the office, we hand-wrote tickets,...
Can you tell us a little about yourself and how long you've been in the industry?I live just north of Toronto in a cozy commuter town with my wonderful wife and our adventurous three-year-old daughter, who’s already well on her way to becoming a frequent cruiser. I’m a full-time...
Can you tell us a little about yourself and how long you've been in the industry?I’m Kiki Lin and going on a cruise has been my dream since I was young. I still remember the moment when I was 17, standing by the shore in Tainan, Taiwan, watching a cruise ship sail past in the distance....
Tell us a little about yourself and how long you've been in the industry? What do you specialize in and why? Incredible how time flies, 2025, wow. I’m looking back to 1981 when this little 18-year-old Acadian boy moved from New Brunswick to Toronto all by himself with no friends...
