The global travel and tourism industry celebrated World Tourism Day, Sept. 27, while other round-up items include an Expedia found that travel is more stressful than, well, read on to find out. Also, global rankings were not kind to YYZ and YUL, Club Med sets its sights on South Africa, and an iconic hotel brand opened its doors in a popular American city.
Air Canada pilots are demonstrating at Toronto’s Pearson airport today, calling for better wages and working conditions as talks with the country’s biggest carrier continue. The Air Line Pilots Association kick-started the bargaining process in June, one day after fellow union members at WestJet ratified a new collective agreement.
A new survey reports that four in 10 (39%) Canadian travellers find air travel to be more stressful than a flooded inbox or sleeping through an alarm. Expedia’s 2024 Air Travel Hacks Report of 1,000 Canadian flyers also says almost half (43%) of air travellers find the process of securing a good flight deal especially stressful, and 17% even checked back on ticket prices after booking to see if they could have saved more.
One airline plans to find out if solitude-seeking travellers will pay a hefty extra charge to avoid sitting near babies and little kids. Corendon Airlines says that it will sell an adults-only zone – no one under 16 – on flights between Amsterdam and Curacao starting in November.
With a head-spinning array of unique and inspiring choices, the answer to the question, “What should I eat in New Orleans?” is really another question: What shouldn’t I eat? And the answer to that is, essentially, nothing! It’s pretty much all amazing, and a foodie, casual or serious, can’t really go wrong in one of the world’s greatest food cities.
It’s rush hour on, and the congestion is severe – not just gas-guzzling, pollution-spewing, horn-honking snarls but also quieter and greener bottlenecks of cyclists jockeying for space. Until four years ago, motorists largely had the Paris thoroughfare to themselves. Now, its bike-lane jams speak to a cycling revolution that is reshaping the capital of France – long a country of car-lovers, home to Renault, Citroen, and Peugeot.
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Holland America Line is launching a global fresh fish program by engaging a network of 60 ports to source and serve 80 types of fresh fish in all its restaurants,– promising to go from port to plate in less than 48 hours.
Funny how a song can be inexorably linked to a time or place (or people). For me The Stray Cats will always belong to London, in 1981, where I spent a summer. The likes of Adam and the Ants and two-tone ska bands like Bad Manners made sense there at the time – but the emergence of an American rockabilly band (that was not known in the US yet), did not.
Based on a survey of 425 business respondents around the world, the ‘Investing in Travel to Drive Business Growth: A Strategy for Thriving in Disruption,’ report concludes that business travel gives companies a valuable return in today’s hybrid world, with most respondents reporting that meeting in person enables dealmaking, company culture and innovation.
The river cruise captain of Viking Sigyn was sentenced to more than five years of prison for his role in the death of 26 South Korean tourists. He was ruled negligent after the ship collided with a smaller Danube cruise boat in 2019.
Delta Air Lines passengers who have long enjoyed access to free meals, alcohol, and a quiet place to relax before their flight are in for some major cutbacks in coming years.
An ancient Roman imperial palazzo atop the city’s Palatine Hill that offers sweeping views of the Roman Forum below has reopened to tourists, nearly 50 years after its closure for restoration. The nearly 2,000-year-old Domus Tiberiana was home to rulers in the ancient city’s Imperial period.
A female American Airlines flight attendant has been found dead with a sock in her mouth in a hotel room near Philadelphia’s Airport, according to ABC News’ Philadelphia station WPVI. She was supposed to have checked out two days earlier.
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has announced the appointment of Noor Ahmad Hamid as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective Oct. 1. Noor’s appointment for a three-year term will usher in a new era for PATA as the influential industry association dedicates itself to promoting responsible travel and tourism within the Pacific Asia region.
The new Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure Park is dedicated to “discovering, recruiting, and training the next generation of superheroes.” It’s a hero training complex where guests can team up with family and friends – and the Avengers – to take on whatever the universe throws at them, and a place to live out one’s superhero dreams.
Today (Sept. 27) is World Tourism Day 2023 with the global sector to coming together around the theme of Tourism and Green Investments. “Tourism has never been more important for our economies or for our societies,” says UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili. “Its potential is enormous. And so, on this World Tourism Day, we celebrate tourism’s ability to drive growth while also highlighting the vital need for investments to ensure such growth is inclusive and sustainable.”
Nav Canada is proposing to reduce customer service charges by close to 6 percent, which would claw back some of an almost 30 percent hike implemented on Sept. 1, 2020, during the pandemic when global air traffic was significantly reduced.
Making news this week is a Costa Rican FAM for Quebec agents, Ensemble teaming up with Jamaica, Flight Centre helping wishes come true, and top marks for The Travel Agent Next Door from Air Canada Vacations. Costa Rica Eighteen travel advisors from Quebec recently experienced an all-encompassing Costa Rica FAM trip, highlighting the country’s Central
With its recent addition to the Blue Diamond Resorts portfolio, Royalton CHIC Antigua is set to debut in early April 2024. Designed exclusively for fun-seeking adults, the beachfront resort is set on the northwest coast of Antigua and is now available for bookings.
With Sept. 27 marking World Tourism Day, and this year focussing on spreading awareness about the importance of tourism and its impact on our society, CheapOair.ca is sharing some of its favourite Old World countries that are walking the walk when it comes to embracing sustainability and environmental measures.
Eight people have been hospitalized after a JetBlue flight experienced severe turbulence as it landed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Monday. JetBlue flight 1256 was flying into Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport from Guayaquil, Ecuador when it suddenly experienced turbulence, the company said in a statement.
Air Canada says it has placed a firm order for 18 Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner aircraft that will be used to replace older, less efficient wide-body aircraft in its fleet. The agreement also includes options for an additional 12 Boeing 787-10 aircraft.
The union representing 11,000 Canadian pilots says a newly streamlined immigration program that looks to fill job gaps in transport fails to cut to the core of a dire labour shortage in aviation. Tim Perry, president of the Air Line Pilots Association’s Canadian chapter, says recent changes to the country’s Express Entry system may offer a temporary fix but still amount to what he calls a “Band-Aid solution” to the lack of flight crews.
While Canadians are already buying into Arajet’s message of convenient connections to the Caribbean and South and Central America through its Santo Domingo hub, the low-fare airline’s founder and CEO believes sunseekers in this country will also find the soon-to-launch Toronto and Montreal service ideal for transit to the Dominican Republic directly, whether as final destination or for two-island holidays in the Caribbean.
Transat Distribution Canada (TDC) recently welcomed travel advisors from its franchised, affiliated corporate branches and agent@home program to the network’s annual 2023 conference. Held at the Sheraton Toronto Airport hotel Sept. 16-17, the event was themed “Ride the Wave: Surf the Tides of Success.”
Edmonton International Airport (YEG) will be completing infrastructure upgrades to the Departures Roadway on Level Two starting today (Sept. 26), which will close the elevated roadway and require relocation of the passenger pick-up and drop-off areas. During the construction period, the Departures Roadway adjacent to the terminal will be temporarily closed to all traffic.
Club Med fans will soon be able to add an African safari experience to the all-inclusive resort chain’s traditional beach and ski offerings at Club Med Tinley. Projected to open in 2026, the resort will be Club Med’s first in South Africa.
Canada has another UNESCO World Heritage Site. Tr’ondëk-Klondike, located in the homeland of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in in the Yukon, was inscribed on the prestigious United Nations list at the recent 45th session of the World Heritage Committee in Saudi Arabia. It is the 22nd site in this country to earn the designation since Canada joined the World Heritage Convention in 1976.
Toronto and Montreal airports were near the bottom in the race for passenger satisfaction this year, according to a study by J.D. Power. The study ranks Toronto Pearson Airport second from the bottom (19th of 20) in the category for the largest airports that see more than 33 million passengers per year.