IAN STALKER Alvaro Concha, Colombian tourist board ProColombia’s trade commissioner for Canada, is eager to introduce ProColombia’s new Canadian representative Juan Sebastian Sanchez Chica, who can truthfully claim to know Colombia’s Caribbean-fronting city of Cartagena — a mainstay...
IAN STALKER A veteran Toronto travel agent is applauding the federal government’s new guidelines on flights within or originating in this country that were cancelled or delayed for over three hours for reasons beyond the airlines’ control. Airlines must now offer those who experienced waits...
By: Zephan McMillan For nine years, Baxter Media’s Baxter Student Ambassador Program (BSAP) has been committed to identifying the industry’s most-promising student talent in travel, tourism and hospitality programs at Canada’s leading colleges and universities. Launched in 2014/15,...
ANN RUPPENSTEIN What do you want to be when you grow up? That’s an easy answer for this year’s crop of graduating BSAP students, who have all opted to pursue careers in the tourism industry with dream jobs ranging from becoming travel advisors to owning tour operator businesses. But even...
Now more than ever, the Baxter Student Ambassador Program plays a vital role in the long-term survival of the travel industry. In its ninth year, the program continues to work with colleges and universities across Canada to identify the most promising student talent in travel, tourism, and hospitality...
By: Dan McDonald Baxter Media’s Baxter Student Ambassador Program remains committed to identifying the travel industry’s most-promising student talent in tourism and hospitality programs at Canada’s leading colleges and universities. BSAP is the only travel and tourism student...
By: Ian Stalker Gotta love those travel agents… Tourist boards and tour operators contacted by Travel Courier say they still attach huge importance to travel agents, brushing aside some suggestions in recent years that technological advances would make agents irrelevant. Latia Duncombe, director...
By: Ian Stalker Tourist boards and tour operators alike are quick to salute travel agents for their perseverance during what has been an extraordinarily tough time for the travel industry. A quick survey of some prominent people in the industry quickly elicited kind words for agents, who like others...
This year’s winning Baxter Ambassadors are a diverse mix of students of different ages, backgrounds, and ambitions, but the one thing this group of graduates has in common is optimism. Something we all need a little more of right now. The only program of its kind in Canada, the Baxter Student Ambassador...
From private yachts and retreats to luxury safaris and natural wonders, Kensington Tours unveils top travel trends for 2021 What’s the key to travelling in the year ahead? Kensington Tours believe that it’s all about new ways to see the world – purposefully designing travel experience...
