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1100 wines compete in National Wine Awards of Canada

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONTARIO - From the heart of Wine Country Ontario, 17 Canadian wine experts will blind taste and judge 1,100 wines from across the country at the first annual National Wine ...

Basque whaling station Records 450 Years of Europe in New World

Red Bay in Newfoundland and Canada up for UNESCO designation

NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR, Atlantic Canada – A little known chapter in Canada's history is being recognized with the news that the Basque Whaling Station in Red Bay, Labrador, is up for a ...

WestJet Airlines receives Randstad Award

WestJet named Canada's most attractive employer for second year in a row

TORONTO, Canada - Randstad Canada is pleased to announce that for the second year in a row WestJet Airlines Ltd.

Interview with Canadian Tourism Commission’s Manager for Social Media

The case for Canada: emotional engagement helps drive customers to purchase

Canada is a vast and beautiful country, but why go there when you could go to California or the Caribbean?

Association of Retail Travel Agents

ARTA continues to be the voice of independent travel agents

From its roots in 1963, when a small, but vocal group of retail travel agents founded the first agent-only trade association, ARTA, the Association of Retail Travel Agents, continues to be the ...

WestJet Airlines joins Canada and Port of Spain

New daily service between Toronto and Trinidad and Tobago

WestJet Airlines, based in Canada, began its new daily service between Toronto and Port of Spain on Friday, November 16, 2012.

WestJet signs Catalyst Accord

WestJet re-commits to increase presence of women in leadership roles

CALGARY, Canada - WestJet today announced that it has signed the Catalyst Accord, a call to action for Canadian corporations to increase the overall proportion of FP500 board seats held by women ...

Canadian Hotel Rate Report

The results of October 2012 Canadian Hotel Rate Report announced

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.

Canada Supports Ukraine's EU Membership

Canada's former Prime Minister: Ukraine should be in EU

Canada's 19th Prime Minister Kim Campbell would like to see Ukraine as a member of the EU, however, the country would have to undergo a number of complicated reforms.

Canadian Airline Industry

Canada's airlines hoping to return to the black in 2013

OTTAWA, Canada - Canada's airlines can expect a second consecutive year of losses in 2012, according to The Conference Board of Canada's Canadian Industrial Outlook: Canada's Air Transportation ...

Porter Airlines and Qatar Airways

Porter Airlines unveils first interline deal with Qatar Airways

TORONTO, Canada – Porter Airlines is implementing its first interline partnership with Qatar Airways.

Chinese tourism to Canada on the rise

Chinese tourists love Canada

The buses pull up in front of the Roots store on the corner of Robson and Burrard three or four times a week during the summer, ejecting a gaggle of tourists looking for that perfect piece of ...

Canadian foreign minister: UN praise of Mugabe "last straw"

Canada quits UNWTO over Mugabe "honors"

Canada has formalised its withdrawal from the UN tourism body after Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was invited to become a global leader in the sphere and sent a letter in recognition of ...

Reports of debris falling from plane investigated

Falling debris from Air Canada flight damage cars in Ontario

Canadian authorities are investigating reports that debris fell Monday from a troubled airliner and caused damage to vehicles in southern Ontario.

VIRGIN ATLANTIC ARRIVES IN VANCOUVER

Virgin Atlantic celebrates first flight between London Heathrow and Vancouver

Virgin Atlantic inaugural flight arrived in Vancouver on May 25 and to mark the occasion, Sir Richard Branson was joined on the steps of the aircraft by Amy Williams MBE, winter Olympic Gold ...

Ethiopian to launch Toronto flight

Ethiopian Airlines set to connect Toronto with Africa

By Apolinari Tairo, eTN Tanzania

TANZANIA (eTN) - Shortly after the Routes Africa forum in Seychelles, Ethiopian Airlines will launch twice-weekly flights to connect eleven African cities to Toronto in Canada through its hub of ...

WestJet and Bombardier

WestJet selects Bombardier Q400 for new regional airline

CALGARY, Canada - WestJet today announced it has selected Montreal-based Bombardier Inc. to supply aircraft for its new regional airline, expected to launch in the second half of 2013.

Caring and protecting historical cemeteries

Historical treasures of Seychelles becomes far-reaching news

The recent announcement by Seychelles that it was looking at a project to renovate and secure the island’s old French cemetery of Bel Air on the main island of Mahe and that the French ...

Canadian travel and tourism business

Tourism Industry Association of Canada supports .travel domain

Every industry needs a voice, and for the Canadian travel and tourism business, that voice is TIAC.travel.

3 killed

Canada passenger train derails

By eTN Staff Writer

(eTN) - Yesterday afternoon, a Canada Via Rail passenger train traveling from Niagara Falls to Toronto, derailed.

NORTH AMERICA PROJECTED BOOKINGS TO THE UNITED STATES

2012 bookings to US projected to remain strong

According to the U.S.

Caribbean Airlines offers new flight route

Easy connection from chilly Toronto to warm Grenada

Getting from the shivering cold to the sublime warmth is easier than ever with the new air connection from Toronto, Canada, to Grenada, which began mid-December of last year.

Exciting new seasonal destination

Porter Airlines debuts in Burlington, Vermont

TORONTO, Canada - Porter Airlines is celebrating its inaugural flight to Burlington, Vermont, today - adding an exciting new seasonal destination to its network.

Porter Airlines

Porter Airlines receives two more Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircraft

TORONTO, Canada – Porter Airlines accepted two new Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircraft today, bringing the company’s fleet to 26.

Tourism Strategy

Keep exploring: Social media and reputation management in Canada’s tourism strategy

By Daniel Edward Craig

Managing the reputation of an individual business is challenging enough in the age of social media—how does one manage the reputation of an entire country?

Global Ranking

Study finds Canada as the country with the “best reputation”

By eTN Staff Writer

Canada has earned the highest reputation ranking in Reputation Institute's 2011 Country RepTrak™, an annual study measuring the public perceptions of 50 countries around the world.

Oceania Cruises

Oceania Cruises returns to Canada and New England

MIAMI, Fla. – Oceania Cruises will offer Canada and New England cruises for fall 2012 in place of previously scheduled Mediterranean voyages. In total, nine itineraries have been changed.

The City of Calgary Launches New Website

Calgary launches first search-based website in Canada

CALGARY, Canada - Following a successful preview, The City of Calgary today announced the official launch of the new search-based calgary.ca.

Canada-Costa Rica air agreement

WestJet welcomes new Canada-Costa Rica air agreement

CALGARY - WestJet today welcomed the announcement of a new air transport agreement between Canada and Costa Rica.

US tourists facing three years in a clink

Bringing guns into Canada lands US tourists in jail

Two American tourists spent five days in jail, put up $50,000 each in bail and are facing three years behind bars after border guards seized a small arsenal of firearms at the U.S.-Canada border ...

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