Viral Marketing

Intrepid Travel has launched the Adventure Collective journey where eight professional travellers are visiting Mexico and Guatemala. On a dedicated website, visitors will choose their favourite photos to enter the draw to win the US $10,000 prize. At the end of the trip, the travel professionals with the most votes also gets $5,000 toward a […]

Strategies and Movements within the Industry

Air Canada will replace Air Canada rouge on the seasonal service between Montreal and Rome, starting from June 2016, and will operate all of its intercontinental flights from Calgary with Boeing 787 Dreamliner, starting from May 2016. Air Journal Air Canada has been recognized for the third consecutive year as one of « Canada’s Top 100 Employers » […]

Sustainable initiatives

TUI Group has released a new sustainability strategy under which it has pledged to cut the carbon intensity of its airline, cruise and ground operations by a further 10% by 2020. Under the Better Holidays, Better World plan, it says it will invest €10 million every year to enhance the positive impacts of tourism. TravelMole […]

IATA has released its Airlines Financial Monitor for September 2015. Airline share prices were up 2% compared to August 2015, supported by low jet fuel prices. Travel Daily News According to a new report completed for the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, more than 42 million passengers travelled through the Southern Ontario’s airports in 2014, with traffic […]

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Ressources humaines

Le superviseur : un rôle en mutation

La mutation du rôle de supervision était le thème de la Journée RH 2015 organisée par le Conseil québécois des ressources humaines en tourisme (CQRHT) qui s’est déroulée le 24 septembre dernier. Mme Julie Carignan, de SPB Psychologie organisationnelle, est venue y présenter les principaux enjeux liés au rôle des superviseurs dans les entreprises et les façons […]

Program, Product & Service Updates

Transat Holidays has launched its 2015-2016 Cruise Collection. New inclusions are the complete day-by-day itineraries added to the handy itinerary maps and the new Transat’s partnership with CroisiEurope. Transat press release Air Canada will offer free one-week stopovers in Toronto to US customers bound for Europe or Asia. Air Canada developed the program with Tourism Toronto, […]

IATA has released the World Air Transport Statistics of the 2014 airline industry performance. System-wide, airlines carried 3.3 billion passengers on scheduled services, an increase of 5.8% over 2013. The regional ranking by market share is: Asia-Pacific, 33.3% (1.1 billion passengers, an increase of 8% compared to the region’s passengers in 2013) Europe, 26.3% (873.4 […]

Program, Product & Service Updates

Transat has added the island of Curaçao, in the Southern Caribbean, to its sun destination portfolio. Air Transat will fly to Curaçao from Toronto on Sundays from Dec. 20, 2015 to April 3, 2016. Transat press release WestJet will operate new flights to London Gatwick from Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto and St. John’s starting in early May […]

According to IATA, passenger travel on international markets rose 6.9% in May and 5.7% in June, compared to the same period last year. The slowdown in June is owing to the timing of Ramadan, which depressed travel demand in the Middle East. IATA Airlines earned $38.1 billion dollars in ancillary revenue in 2014, compared to […]

Iceland: the world’s largest man-made ice cave opens to visitors

Located in the western part of the Long Glacier area, 1,260 metres above sea level, the cave extends deep beneath the glacier giving visitors the opportunity to take in the magnitude of this centuries-old glacial formation. The chain of tunnels and caves stretches 500 metres into the ice. The entrepreneurs behind the project invested US$2.5 […]