Photo: Kris Krüg
The adventure travel industry in Canada was cast in a negative light in 2010 when a mass grave of up to 100 dogs was discovered near Whistler, British Columbia. New legislation passed in BC this week aims to prevent mistreatment and gruesome killings of sled dogs. (more…)
Wallenda performing in Canada’s Wonderland in 2009.
The Ontario Niagara Parks Commission voted unanimously last week to allow tightrope walker Nik Wallenda to cross Niagara Falls via high wire. (more…)
Quebec City will be on of the new Porter Escapes destinations (Photo: Brian Negin)
Toronto-based Porter Airlines will begin offering vacation packages this year, initially to its most popular leisure-travel gateways. (more…)
Ottawa International Airport (Photo: morethanreal)
Ottawa International Airport was rated the top North American airport and the Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport was rated the best regional airport in North America in the Airports Council International’s annual Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Awards. (more…)
The answer is…probably, according to Seth Kugel, the New York Times Frugal Traveler columnist. That is, as long as you seek out niche travel agencies that tend to have been created to serve immigrant communities. (more…)
Artist's rendering of the new Glacier Discovery Walk attraction. (Photo: Brewster Travel)
Soon you’ll be able to get up close and personal with a glacier at Jasper National Park via a floating observation platform on its new Glacier Discovery Walk attraction, set to open in 2013. (more…)
Photo by Brent Moore
Do your Valentine’s Day dinner plans follow the trends?
Surveys by leading restaurant reservations and review companies OpenTable and Zagat found that February 14 is the most hyped dining-out night per year for a reason. (more…)
The Hunger Games may be the most highly anticipated, approaching-cult-status book-turned-movie since Twilight. The movie opens on March 23 in Canada, but clothing company Joe Fresh is offering an all-travel-expenses-paid trip to the March 19 Canadian premiere in Toronto.
The prize includes airfare, a one-night hotel stay and two tickets to the premiere and a $500 Joe Fresh gift card. (more…)
City Hall in Kingston, Ontario (Photo: Andrew MacKinnon)
Kingston, Ontario, is the most romantic city in Canada—or, at least, it’s home to the most Harlequin romance novel fans—according to data compiled by Amazon.ca naming the 20 most romantic cities across the country. (more…)
Photo: Trevor Donald
Marriott is in talks to buy the historic Algonquin Resort in St.-Andrews-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick, CBC reports. (more…)
Photo by Richard Eriksson
In a landslide vote yesterday, WestJet employees approved an initiative to launch a regional airline making short-haul flights to small cities and towns in Canada, beginning in 2013. Ninety-one per cent of employees were in favour of the move. (more…)
Photo by Ken Ardill, Toronto Zoo Volunteer
Can’t make it to Churchill, Manitoba, to see the polar bears in their natural habitat this winter?
Maybe you can mosey over to the Toronto Zoo instead, to see its newest addition—this irresistibly adorable polar bear cub that was rejected by mama bear. (more…)
Travel website TripAdvisor launched a verbal counter-attack against a ruling last week by the British Advertising Standards Authority that prohibits the UK website from claiming its reviews are from trusted travellers. (more…)
Photo by Jeremy Price
Schwartz’s Delicatessen, Montreal’s iconic smoked meat mecca first opened in 1928, has been sold. And the Huffington Post is reporting that one of the new co-owners may be a group of investors that includes René Angélil, husband and manager of superstar singer Céline Dion and a native of Montreal. (more…)
Those famous PEI mussels (Photo by ulterior epicure)
Restaurant-rating company Zagat has named Prince Edward Island one of its eight favourite foodie destinations around the world, calling the tiny island province a “shellfish junkie’s dream”. (more…)
We knew that people were crazy about racking up rewards points, but we didn’t know that they’d choose these benefits over their spouses. (more…)
TripAdvisor.co.uk's hotel search page
TripAdvisor has been caught in the crosshairs again in the UK. The British Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the travel website’s claims such as “more than 50 million honest travel reviews and opinions from real travellers” are misleading and must be removed.
Reason being that, frankly, some of TripAdvisor’s user reviews can’t be trusted. (more…)
The importance of Wi-Fi Internet access according to U.S. travelers. (PRNewsFoto/TripAdvisor)
Wi-Fi was reported to be the most important hotel amenity by travellers who participated in a recent TripAdvisor survey. After Wi-Fi, the most important amenities in the eyes of travellers were:
Illustration by Widjaya Ivan
A consumer advocate blog we frequent, Elliott.org, featured a story yesterday about a women who lost $4,500 in a vacation rental scam. Because the deception was perpetrated by compromising the vacation rental owner’s e-mail via phishing—and not because the well-established home rental site itself, HomeAway.com, was compromised—the renter was out of luck. (more…)
Hilton is planning to add customer reviews to its website by the end of 2012 (Photo: Hilton Vancouver Airport)
Back in October, Starwood Hotels started including guest reviews on its website and since then, Marriott has done the same. Now it seems that Hilton, Radisson and the world’s largest hotel group, InterContinental, will also feature guest reviews on their sites. (more…)
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