By SHANNON KELLY
Webby Award 2012 winners in travel: Kayak (background/left) and the FlightBoard app (foreground/right)
The 16th annual Webby Awards winners were announced yesterday, with top honours in the Travel category going to travel-booking site Kayak. The site not only won the Webby, but the People’s Voice Award for its site and its app. (more…)
By SHANNON KELLY
Photo: TweetAFlight.com
Has this happened to you? See a flight sale on Twitter, click through to the airline’s Web site only to find it sold out—or that that advertised sale is mysteriously missing. With a new Twitter add-on you can take advantage of tweeted sales immediately and directly, simply by replying “Buy” to the tweet. (more…)
By SHANNON KELLY
You used to have to chat a guy up in a bar, at least, to get him to take you to Paris. No more. Travel “dating” site MissTravel.com connects “generous” travellers (99 per cent of them men) with “attractive” travel lovers with no funds to travel. (more…)
By SHANNON KELLY
With what some ministers spent on travel, you could buy a private island (Photo: Andrew Massey)
After Bev Oda’s pricey five-star hotel upgrade made headlines this week, news gatherers have been digging up travel totals for all federal cabinet ministers since March 2010. Here are some ways, you, too, can jet-set like a Canadian federal cabinet minister—without taking two years to do it. (more…)
By SHANNON KELLY
Photos (clockwise from top left): Ken Hawkins, Tommaso Galli, tonx, Nick Papakyriazis
The province of Manitoba is looking into relaxing the limitations on its Sunday shopping hours, which are now the strictest in Canada. (more…)
Luxury online menswear store MR PORTER recently released a travel issue of its monthly Journal, which included a video of three well-travelled and (need we mention?) dapperly dressed men and their packing styles.
We also found some excellent packing tips for fashionable travellers of the male persuasion (fashionistos?) (more…)
Customs lineup at Vancouver International Airport before installation of new Automated Border Clearance kiosks (Photo: Dennis S. Hurd)
A pilot program rolled out Vancouver International Airport (YVR) in 2010 allowing faster screening times for Canadians (and Canadian permanent residents) returning to Canada has been deemed a success, despite early misgivings, and is now being rolled out to other Canadian airports, the Canada Border Services Agency announced Friday.
By SHANNON KELLY
Signs like these at hotels seem to encourage guests to conserve (Photo: Joelk75)
In the next year, 71 per cent of of the more than 700 U.S. travellers surveyed by TripAdvisor said they intend to make more eco-friendly choices than in the past. Forty-seven per cent said they were as eco-conscious on vacation as at home. (more…)
By SHANNON KELLY
Vacation-rental Web site HomeAway.com encourages online property reviews.
Our favourite avenger of travel scams and customer-service fails, Christopher Elliott, recently wrote about a trend in the vacation-rental industry of requiring renters to sign contracts with non-disparagement clauses prohibiting them from writing negative reviews of properties where they’ve stayed. (more…)
By SHANNON KELLY
Photo: Jerry Bunkers
According to research from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), the travel and tourism industry provides more jobs across the globe (and in every region) than any other industry in the world apart from education. (more…)
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