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  • THINKING BACK.LOOKING AHEAD
    by Jen Savedra - It’s been quite a year – exhausting may be the best word to describe it.  The heat is on as the world gets hotter - in more ways than one.  So, here’s a look at some of what we saw in 2024 and what we can perhaps hope for in 2025.

  • TRAVEL SAFE AND SOUND: Take a bow Canada
    by Staff Writer - Safety and security are understandably more important than ever when it comes to finding a safe place to live, work, or travel. 2024, The Global Peace Index 2024 ranks 163 countries based on their levels of peacefulness. They evaluate factors such as societal safety and security, ongoing domestic and international conflict, and the degree of militarization.

  • WHAT WERE YOU LISTENING TO IN 2024?
    by Staff Writer - ‘Listening In’ on Travel Industry Today is one of our most popular features . We took a nostalgic stroll/scroll  through the weeks and came up with the top five most watched/listened to in 2024.

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  • FEDS SPELL OUT NEW PASSENGER COMPENSATION RULES
    by Staff Writer - The federal government is proposing new rules surrounding airlines' obligations to travellers whose flights are disrupted, even when delays or cancellations are caused by an "exceptional circumstance" outside of carriers' control.

  • DOES YOUR JOB GIVE YOU ‘BRAIN ROT’?
    by Staff Writer - It’s been a long year in travel – strikes and almost strikes; the weather (oi, the weather! – too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too windy!); wars; inflation; bankruptcies; planes (or at least parts of them at any rate) literally falling out of the sky; dynamic pricing (remember that word); Donald Trump; and, as Bill Murray opined in ‘Ghost Busters’ of the end of days, “cats and dogs living together!” It’s enough to give one… brain rot.

  • A DREAM COME TRUE: 35 years of magic with Dreams Take Flight
    by Staff Writer - Air Canada’s 2024 season of Dreams Take Flight wrapped up before Christmas with the last flight of the year departing from Calgary, whisking deserving children away for a special day at a theme park in California. Over the last 12 months, more than 900 children from across Canada were took part in the Air Canada Foundation program, which supports the health and well-being of children across the country, in particular creating hope and resiliency for children facing adversity.

  • 2025 IS FOR THE DOGS
    by Staff Writer - Dog lovers rejoice: The US The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has released its annual downloadable 2025 TSA Canine Calendar, a tradition that honours the agency’s more than 1,000 explosives detection canines working across the country.

  • GOING OUT WITH A BANG
    by Staff Writer - One Georgia city will welcome 2025 with a larger-than-average bang. The Macon-Bibb County Commission will implode a vacant 16-story hotel that once housed Elvis at midnight on New Year’s Eve. The County spent $4.5 million last year to buy the hotel in a federal bankruptcy proceeding and then agreed to hire a demolition firm to blow up the building at a cost of up to $2.6 million.

  • ROUND-UP: Dec. 30, 2024-Jan. 03, 2025
    by Staff Writer - News nuggets, airlines, hotels/resorts, cruising, tours, events, FAMS/incentives, deals, destinations and more are covered in our weekly round-up of travel industry news you may have missed.

  • ROUND-UP: Dec. 9-13, 2024
    by Staff Writer - News nuggets, airlines, hotels/resorts, cruising, tours, events, FAMS/incentives, deals, destinations and more are covered in our weekly round-up of travel industry news you may have missed.