PAL Airlines arrives in Ottawa Ian Stalker PAL Airlines has worked its way westward to Ontario, with the St. John’s-based carrier that previously had been serving points in Quebec and the Maritimes now including Ottawa in its network. July saw PAL begin non-stop Ottawa-Fredericton service on Mondays,...

NCL sails away in American waters Ian Stalker Norwegian Cruise Line has restarted cruising in U.S. waters, with the company’s Norwegian Encore setting sail from Seattle on Aug. 7 on an Alaska cruise, a sailing the company fully expects will end with everyone returning home hale and hearty. NCL is working...

Agent seeing robust number of cruise bookings Ian Stalker A prominent Toronto travel agency says it’s seeing a surge in cruise bookings, even as a growing number of coronavirus cases linked to the delta variant are refocusing attention on a virus that has done the travel industry huge damage. And Bob Family...

CTO and Planeterra team up in the name of community tourism Ann Ruppenstein The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and global community tourism non-profit Planeterra have joined forces to scale up community tourism throughout the Caribbean. The goal of the partnership is to enhance the social, economic...