The federal government says it is committed to a fully accessible and inclusive Canada for all its citizens and visitors, including ensuring that airline passengers with disabilities will have a “safe, dignified and reliable travel experience.”

If you’re like us, the first thing you do upon arrival at a hotel is connect.
The second thing, invariably is to wonder why it has to be so hard to so, due to complicated logins, and passwords that can be hard to track down and may have to be re-entered endlessly throughout one’s stay. Now, IHG Hotels & Resorts says it has a solution.

Quebec City rocked to Rendez-vous Canada last week, while in other round-up news, there was more tech trouble for Air Canada, BC assessed its COVID support, ACV unveiled its winter sun season, and the flip of the calendar to June marked the official start of hurricane season.

The US Coast Guard has suspended the search for a 35-year-old man who was reported missing from a Carnival cruise ship off of Florida’s Atlantic Coast. The agency said the man fell from the Carnival Magic about 300 km east of Jacksonville early Monday.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no stranger to the travel industry. Many travel companies¬¬ – including major airlines, hotels, and car rental companies – leverage AI in a variety of ways, enabling travellers and agents to quickly make changes to bookings, elevating experiences through personalized controls, and managing customer service inquiries. But has AI advanced so much that it can actually provide a perfect travel itinerary for one’s next trip? The short answer – it’s complicated.

Whether travelling by plane, train or automobile, Francophone travellers are struggling to access services in their language, Canada’s official languages commissioner says. And it’s an ongoing struggle that has gotten worse in the last decade, especially as people begin travelling again, says Raymond Theberge

Travel advisors continued to learn, expand, dine, discover, and, of course, sell, in this week’s round-up of Canada’s retail scene.

The Big Easy is enticing at any time of year, but summer is when New Orleans sizzles – and not just from the heat. This year, from June through August, over 20 hotels throughout New Orleans are offering travel advisor rates, which agents can supplement with a VIP pass to make the most of their visit to the Louisiana city.

Calling the recent move by some US civil rights groups to issue a “travel advisory” for visitors to Florida a “stunt,” members of the state’s tourism trade are taking exception to the claim that the destination is “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of colour, and LGBTQ+ individuals.”

Just in time for the summer season, an increase in GO Transit services between Toronto and Niagara Falls has made it easier for visitors to get to the famous Falls, and popular nearby Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Brian Keaulana is the quintessential Native Hawaiian waterman, well-known for his deep understanding of the ocean, gifted with surfing and lifeguarding skills passed down from his big-wave rider father. Now, as one of the islands’ standard-bearers of surfing, Keaulana wants to further boost the sport in his homeland by building an artificial wave pool – a splashy proposal that is making waves, particularly among some Native Hawaiians.

On a day when a toddler was shot in the head by a stray bullet while playing outside at daycare in Utah – just another day in the life of a country where gun violence has claimed nearly 17,000 lives in the first half of 2023 alone – the US Travel Association gamely tackled the issue of gun violence in America at last week’s IPW travel trade event in San Antonio.

A rocky start to the travel high season in Europe is fuelling fears of a repeat of last summer’s post-pandemic air travel chaos that unleashed delays, cancellations, and mountains of lost luggage from London to Sweden to Amsterdam.

With a lineup of key seasonal sun destinations throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America, Air Canada Vacations has unveiled its 2023/24 offerings aimed at early planners for the winter season.