Bartlett Targeting Half a Million Visitors from Canada by 2025

For 31 years, Catherine King and her husband Wayne Adams lived side by side on a floating island in Canada they built with their own hands. 

A couple says they had to cancel their horse trekking trip in Mongolia after Air Canada refused to let them take their bags off a delayed flight, as first reported the Canadian broadcaster Global News last Thursday.

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has extended heartfelt congratulations to two of Jamaica’s renowned hotels, S Hotel Jamaica and Jamaica Inn, for their exceptional achievements in the prestigious Condé Nast Readers’ Choice Awards for 2023. In this year’s edition of the awards, readers ranked S Hotel Jamaica #1 Hotel in the Caribbean and Central America with an impressive score of 99.33, while Jamaica Inn secured the 6th position with a commendable score of 94.17.

Earlier this year, I took Amtrak's Adirondack train from New York City to Montreal, a 12-hour journey that snakes through the Hudson Valley and into Canada. The route had just reopened after being halted since 2020, and I was eager to see what it was all about. 

Air Canada Vacations announced that travelers would now not only accumulate points on the flight portion of their packages, but Aeroplan Members could also earn points on their entire vacation booking.

Kia Karjalainen and her sister were vacationing in Greece when things took an unexpected turn. “We were in our hotel room, and I suddenly said to my sister, ‘It really, really smells of smoke. Is something burning?’”

Saudi Arabia will raise its previous 100 million visitors by 2030 target to 150 million, as kingdom officials say the old number is too low. The move was revealed during the Skift Global Forum 2023 by Mahmoud Abdulhadi, Deputy Minister, Destination Enablement at the Ministry of Tourism.

If you sail into British Columbia’s Desolation Sound Marine Park on a slightly smoky afternoon, as I did recently (there were still more than 900 wildfires burning across Canada), make sure you watch out for the huge tides and the weather. B.C.’s largest marine park might have the warmest water north of Baja, but here nature still rules.

Japan welcomed more than 2 million visitors for a third straight month in August, recovering to more than 80% of pre-pandemic levels for the first time, official data showed on Wednesday.

About 20 minutes west of Niagara Falls, Canada, is a house built on eight pine trees set 10 feet off the ground.

It appears some people just get to start their vacations earlier than others, like the one dad TikTok is taking to task.  In early September, TikTok user One Tough Mother posted to the platform with a quick snippet of a flight from Las Vegas to Vancouver, Canada, and a tale that had everyone up in arms. «I was seated next to a mom who had a baby in her lap and a toddler beside her. It was a lot,» Kristine Sostar McLellan, the woman behind the account, wrote in a now-viral TikTok video. «I offered to switch seats with the dad, who was a few rows up, so he could be with his family. He says 'Great, thanks' AND SENDS OVER ANOTHER SMALL KID TO SIT WITH THE MOM. He enjoyed a kid-free flight.»

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