Data shows the volume of transborder trips down by 8.1% compared to 2024, while overseas activity was up 3.4% over last year According to the Conference Board of Canada’s (CBoC) March Outbound Canada report, close to 2.75 million Canadians returned from an overnight outbound trip in January 2025. That...
JTB celebrates a “legacy built on passion, pride and island magic” Event photos courtesy of George Pimentel Photography One of the things that Donovan White made an effort to point out during a recent Toronto event celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Jamaica Tourist Board was that by the time...
VisitBritain’s Gavin Landry on hitting major milestones in the Canadian market Photo courtesy of VisitBritain - Robin Creative Media. Lede photo: Visit County Durham Critical Tortoise Andy Jones As VisitBritain rolled out its new Starring Great Britain campaign in early March, Canada found itself...
BY: BOB MOWAT "What makes us really unique… is that we have a blend of different offerings. It’s a blend of luxury, unspoiled nature as well as world-class experiences.” –Experience Turks & Caicos’ Chief Marketing Officer, Trina Adams There’s no doubt that Canadians are drawn...
Tools like AgentProfiler help agents get more business Travel Leaders Network wants its members to tell their stories because, simply put, that is going to get them more attention, more leads and more commissions. That was a key message that the consortium’s top executives -- John Lovell, CTC...
This year, the 25th Anniversary edition of the annual Agents’ Choice Readership Survey is all about Inspiring Innovation. We certainly want to inspire all of our travel agency readers to vote in the 2025 survey, but we also want to celebrate all of the inspiring innovations that have defined...
Myrtle Beach offers so much more than just the beach It has been a while since Visit Myrtle Beach has done a mission to Canada, but the wait ended when a group of its top tourism executives arrived in Canada in early October, visiting both Toronto and Montreal “to let everybody know what’s happening...
The Tollman family decides to sell a company it has owned for over a century IAN STALKERTwo veteran Ontario travel agents are taking in stride the announcement that long-running, family-owned The Travel Corporation will see a new owner whose name isn't likely to yet resonate among those working...
Tour operators report people are still on the move IAN STALKERSo where are travellers wanting to go these days during a time when extreme weather conditions are wreaking havoc on much of our planet?Well, tour operators say they're continuing to head far and wide, and are still interested in vacationing...
It’s only appropriate that the culture that gave birth to the Renaissance is where Windstar Cruises ushers in a new era in cruising by making the final cut to the hull of Star Breeze to “stretch” the first of its three ships and begin the process of inserting a new 25.6-metre mid-section that will...
