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Canadian Heritage’s classic summer sound and light show has a new virtual look this year. The “Northern Lights” spectacular, which usually runs on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, has been redirected online…

New York’s LaGuardia – often rated as the worst airport in the US – has unveiled the latest elements of its US $8-billion makeover, which has been steadily transforming the facility since 2016 from a…

I loved Krakow and marvelled that Warsaw’s rebuilt “old” town actually looks 300 years old (when it was a pile of rubble after the war), but Zakopane is the place in Poland I loved most, thereby…

Marketing Tourism to Chinese in Europe Conference Dates August 26, 2020 – 2pm London (3pm CET, 4pm EET) While long-haul travel from China is still on hold, there are around 2 million Chinese…

Destination readiness Conference Dates August 5, 2020  – 9:30am EST The 4 panelists are CEOs of the following institutions:  –          Kenya Airways –          Kenya Airports Authority –…

Reigniting Regional Tourism Conference Dates August 27, 2020 – 9:00 am – 10:30 am With the arrival of COVID-19 and the abrupt termination of international visitors, tourism regions in…

Travel Talks webinar series Conference Dates August 7, 2020 – 3 p.m. The Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB), a nonprofit membership corporation, presents a new Travel Talks webinar series in a…

Spawning Sustainable Tourism Initiatives via Regional Collaboration Conference Dates August 20, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time In 2018, MSU Extension tourism educators partnered with Travel MI to…

IZEA Worldwide, Inc., the premier provider of influencer marketing technology, data, and services for the world’s leading brands, published a brief today which provides its first public analysis of…

Prior to the pandemic, religious tourism was big business, destined only to get bigger. But not even the pious are exempt from its clutches, with some governments banning pilgrimage altogether and…

If clean is the new sexy, Switzerland is well positioned to counter some of the fears of post-coronavirus travel, says the country’s tourism director for Canada, Pascal Prinz, who took the opportunity…

In case you missed it, and even if you didn’t, here’s a quick look at some of last week’s need-to-know travel news, including: Transat cancelling winter flights from Western Canada; ACTA and Israel…

A little off the top. Oh, and a margarita! Such are the options at Cannibale in Calgary, a curious bar and barber concept where patrons are encouraged to combine a few cocktails with their monthly…

Are long cruises relics of the past? Are shipboard medical centers up to handing a covid-19 outbreak? Who’s going to pay the travel costs of a guest denied boarding? The US Centers for Disease Control…

Tourism losses in 2020 were more than three times the losses seen during the Global Economic Crisis of 2009, according to the latest edition of the World Tourism Barometer report, published by the…

At the southern end of Croatia’s Adriatic Coast, far fewer tourists are wandering the marbled streets of Dubrovnik than usual, while the number of visitors to northern beaches is much closer to the…

What you think you know about ethical elephant tourism is mostly outdated and wrong. And it’s making elephants’ lives worse. You’ve probably seen ads for saving-the-wildlife donations, showing a…

Sick of the news? Getting bored with the boob tube? Luxury cruise company Viking is offering an alternative during the pandemic with its own online “TV” station, designed to take armchair travel to a…

Morocco’s Imperial Cities were built to dazzle, and that they do… still. Comprised of Marrakech, Rabat, Fez and Meknes, the cities are rich in history, ancient monuments and the heritage of the…

Yorkshire seems to have always been calling my name. I grew up in North York, close to York, East York and Scarborough and a host of other Toronto-area towns copied from the shire (Whitby, Ajax,…