Numerous species call park home IAN STALKER South Dakota's Badlands National Park is in fact good lands for wildlife enthusiasts. The 244,000-acre park — described as a "maze of buttes, canyons, pinnacles and spires" — is home to bison, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, coyotes, eagles and other...

Tourism spending in Canada is expected to bounce back quicker than expected IAN STALKERTourism spending in this country is now expected to bounce back from the punishing Covid pandemic faster than was forecast a couple of years ago.Marc Seguin, TIAC's vice president, policy and government affairs,...

Canada can be at the forefront of Indigenous tourism IAN STALKERThe Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada says it hopes that Canada will be at the very forefront of Indigenous tourism by the end of the decade.ITAC vice president Sébastien Desnoyers-Picard told a Feb. 1 TIAC town hall in Toronto...

Spas are common in the destination IAN STALKER Los Cabos tourism authorities say there's is a great place for those wanting to literally shape up. Rodrigo Esponda, head of the Los Cabos Tourist Board, told a recent Toronto gathering that the destination has some 85 hotels that have spas and tourists...

Island is a green tourist retreat IAN STALKERDominica's tourism board is quick to acknowledge that that island isn't at the forefront of Caribbean tourism development.And that suits it just fine."We're what the Caribbean was 40 years ago. We're not over-developed," says Jerry Grymek of LMA Communications,...