May 29th to June 4th marks Tourism Week in Canada, and Burlington, Ontario is a great place to check out. “Travel has slowly started to return, and we look forward to welcoming more visitors to Burlington, Ontario this summer,” tourism officials said. “This is good news for Burlington’s tourism businesses, after two unprecedented years, and they look forward to serving residents and visitors.” Tourism in Canada was a $105 billion industry sector employing approximately 1.8 million workers, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many communities, tourism and hospitality was the first and hardest hit sector, which will take the longest Read more
May 2022
Despite numerous calls to end random testing of arriving passengers at Canadian airports and to ease crowded conditions at airports across the country, the Canadian government today said it’s extending current border measures until at least June 30. In a statement on Twitter (you think they’d put out something more official), the Public Health Agency of Canada today said it will continue the current rules for another month. That would appear to mean random tests for arriving passengers at Canadian airports will continue. PHAC said on Twitter that all travellers, regardless of vaccination status, must continue to submit their information in Read more
Toronto holds down most of the top spots in the latest list of the top 100 restaurants in Canada, but Vancouver fared quite well, and Calgary made a big splash. Ten of the top 20 restaurants on the latest Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants List are in Ontario, with eight in Toronto. Vancouver had three in the top 20, all of them in the top 10, including number one and number three. Calgary had three in the top 20, coming in at positions 10, 12 and 18. Major Tom in Calgary, which was ranked 12th overall in Canada, was named best Read more
Flair Airlines has been making a ton of noise in the Canadian travel marketplace. We should find out tomorrow if that’s going to continue. Officials from the Edmonton-based airline on Wednesday (June 1) are expected to announce the results of a Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) investigation on whether it may continue to fly in Canada. The Canadian government has been looking into allegations that Flair didn’t meet the conditions to qualify as being Canadian owned. Ottawa says at least 51 per cent of a company’s voting interests must be owned and controlled by Canadians and no more than 25 per cent Read more
Tourism Weeks kicked off in Ottawa today. Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, Beth Potter, President and CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC), and the Parliamentary Tourism Caucus officially launched National Tourism Week at a press conference in the nation’s capital. For more than 10 years, Tourism Week has been presented by TIAC to encourage all tourism partners to come together to celebrate tourism as vital to the Canadian economy and to the social and cultural fabric of communities across the nation. The seven-day awareness campaign invites private- and public-sector partners in Canada Read more
