A new travel voucher policy from Transat, a big boost for Indigenous tourism in Canada, a new rule requiring masks at Marriott Hotels around the world, COVID-19 trouble for Canadian travel and a posh new Kimpton hotel in Key West. My Future of Travel blog for July 22. Transat Alters Travel Voucher/Travel Credit Policy To offer greater flexibility to customers whose bookings have been cancelled due to COVID-19 or who cancelled their trips as part of Transat’s flexibility policy, Transat is relaxing the terms around the use of the future travel credits issued as a result. Those future travel credits Read more
Atlantic Canada
Aruba and Barbados open in the next week, as does Dubai and the Louvre in Paris. I’ll take a look at reopenings today, as well as the Atlantic Travel Bubble in Canada and concerns about Toronto folks visiting Kingston, Ontario. What’s Re-Opening This Week I just today discovered a terrific tourism and travel re-opening timeline created by friends at Skift, one of the leading travel/tourism news websites in the world. According to their timetable, here are some of the key re-openings taking place in the next seven days. Of course, given the tenor of the times, all these dates are subject Read more
Okay, that headline is a bit dramatic. I mean, Canada has cities like Vancouver and mountains like the Rockies. Not to mention Quebec City. But I’ve felt for years that the people and culture of our Maritime provinces and Newfoundland (I think I’m supposed to call it Atlantic Canada) are perhaps the most unique part of this country, and an area we should be pushing much, much harder. I have ideas about a lot of things, as my family can attest. But one thing that’s often struck me is how different Atlantic Canada is from the USA’s New England. They’re Read more
