MSN Travel has an excellent story on its website that shows off some of the best small towns and cities of Europe. The story lists a smaller city or village in all 46 member countries, so you’ll find something in all your favourite destinations, including Italy, France, England, Portugal and Croatia. I must admit there are several I’d never heard of but look fabulous, such as Dinant, Belgium, Vianden, Luxembourg and Castle Combe in the delightful Cotswolds area of England, where I spent some time a few years ago. Others I know (Colmar, France, Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland and Atrani, Italy, as Read more
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Expedia’s Fall Travel Outlook reveals that as Canadians continue to focus on domestic travel, two traditional top destinations are seeing even greater interest as autumn approaches. Always a popular spot for Canadians looking for a European-style cultural experience closer to home, Montreal ranks as the third-most popular Canadian destination overall, even as it also ranks fifth on the list of trending locations, with a 45% increase in searches over the same period in 2025. Meanwhile, Vancouver sits second overall among all Canadian destinations, while jumping up to sixth on the trending list, with a 40% YoY search increase. “Canadians are continuing to favour domestic travel over international trips, and the Fall Travel Outlook indicates Read more
A new list of the 30 most beautiful destinations on earth, a fabulous grizzly bear-viewing trip to British Columbia, and new Canadian visitor numbers for Florida. All in today’s blog post. THE 30 MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES ON EARTH: REALLY? Condé Nast Traveller is one of the top names in the biz. It’s an excellent magazine with informed editors and readers. But I’m baffled by their latest list, which claims to show the 30 most beautiful places in the world. There are a couple of entries here that I know nothing about or that don’t appear all that amazing in the Read more
I always knew I was ahead of my time. Okay, all joking aside, I was happy to read in Travel + Leisure magazine that a poll of 2,000 U.S. travellers found that Maui is the most romantic place on earth. The magazine said that FunJet Vacations recently released the findings of a poll it conducted with Talker Research looking into the most romantic destinations in the world. After polling 2,000 “general population Americans” to find out their preferred spots for romance, it turned out that Maui led the way, with 34% of respondents naming it the most romantic destination in Read more
Visitors to The Islands of Tahiti from Canada are up 6.3% so far in 2024 compared to 2023, according to thInstitute of Statistics of French Polynesia. Sure to draw in even more Canadian travelers is the recent news that French Polynesia’s remote and paradise-like Marquesas Islands have just been officially added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List, reserved for the globe’s most celebrated and cherished sites. The announcement brings about more international recognition for The Islands of Tahiti after the destination just successfully hosted Olympic Surfing at Teahupo’o. The Marquesan waters are one of the world’s last marine wilderness areas and Read more
