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01 DEC 2011: Bernard Weber is his name. This Swiss-born Canadian citizen is a self proclaimed “film maker, aviator, and adventurer”, he is also the founder/president of what he calls the ‘New7Wonders movement’. If this sounds familiar it may be because on 11/11/11 his ‘New7Wonders of Nature’ campaign announced its ‘provisional’ winners. But the real wonder here is money, and the contest’s $200 registration fee appears to be just the tip of a wondrous iceberg.
01 DEC 2011: A 52-year-old German tourist has died after falling off an elephant in southern Thailand. Police Capt. Chatchai Nakpaksee says the woman, Kerstin Kretz Schmar, was riding the elephant with her husband when the accident occurred Tuesday evening in Krabi province.
01 DEC 2011: Details are still under investigation, but it has been reported that a China Eastern Airlines plane took off in Japan without clearance from air traffic control on Monday. Meanwhile the carrier has pledged to improve the English language skills of its flight crew.
01 DEC 2011: Mishandled baggage costs the aviation industry an estimated US $2.94 billion annually, affects 42 million passengers, and is the second most important factor in having a pleasant trip according to an IATA CATS survey. Now, help is at hand.
01 DEC 2011: There were a lot of students who showed up, but that’s only half the story. The 250 students taking part in the CITC Students-in-Travel Conference that took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre recently were keen and engaged.
01 DEC 2011: Sunwing is heading for Scotland. The tour operator will introduce twice weekly flights from Toronto to Glasgow next summer, and Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop, in Toronto on a mission to strengthen business and economic links in North America welcomed the news.
01 DEC 2011: The US Congress has voted unanimously to allow military travellers on official duty to get a special preference to move through airport security checks faster. The bill, approved Tuesday on a 404-0 vote, gives Homeland Security six months to come up with a preference system for the Armed Forces. The legislation now goes to the Senate.
01 DEC 2011: Prime Minister Stephen Harper and US President Barack Obama are meeting at the White House in Washington next week. One of the items to be signed by the Canadian PM while there, is a 32-point border action plan system that will permit the US to track everyone coming and leaving Canada by air, land and sea.
05 DEC 2011: As I write this week’s column I am sitting on an Air Canada plane enroute to Miami for yet another cruise (imagine that!) – the headphones are on and I’m listening to XM radio and The 60’s. I have had one cocktail and I am in that state where you find yourself (or at least I do) when one drink at 1.30 in the afternoon with barely any food in the belly, makes you feel just a little more in touch with your inner being.
05 DEC 2011: Kia Ora (welcome in the Maori language) to Wellington, named “coolest little capital in the world,” by Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel for 2011. Not only is Wellington New Zealand's official capital city, but it is also widely regarded as the Kiwi capital for culture, cinema, cocktails and cuisine. Tucked neatly around Lambton Harbour, at the southern tip of New Zealand’s North Island, Wellington succeeds in packing a big cosmopolitan punch into its compact, windy and hilly streets.
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