CANJET LAUNCHES SYSTEM-WIDE BOXING DAY SEAT SALE Fares available through New Years Day CanJet has joined the Boxing Day spirit with a  system-wide seat sale. "Effective immediately, CanJet's everyday low fares have been reduced on all routes," said Doug Newson, CanJet Airlines' Director, Marketing & Sales, "and this is a great opportunity for customers to save significant money on their air travel during the first 10 weeks of 2006." [Full text]

HELPING HOLIDAYS Escapades Sri Lanka trek for tsunami relief provided travellers with the opportunity to give something back to the communities they visited - future charity treks include South Africa, Peru, China, India and Tanzania A group of 12 die-hard Canadian adventure travellers, led by Priyantha Amarasinghe, Director of Tour Product at Escapades has just returned from a successful trekking expedition to the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka. The group visited Sri Lanka as part of a challenge trek to raise funds for Ontario Village & People In Need (PIN) Foundation, a Canadian-funded humanitarian project for tsunami victims. [Full text]

UNIQUE VACATIONS CANADA HONOURED AT WORLDWIDE SALES MEETINGS Gary Sadle receives Silent Warrior of the Year Award At the recent Worldwide Sales Meetings for Unique Vacations Inc., the official sales and marketing representatives for Sandals and Beaches Resorts, the Canadian sales team walked away with several top awards during the ceremony held at Sandals Grande Ocho Rios Beach & Villa Resort in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. "As the only Caribbean resort company with a dedicated sales team from coast to coast across Canada, we are proud to share these individual awards with our travel agent partners," said Gary C. Sadler, Director of Sales & Marketing, Canada. [Full text]

SILVERSEA WELCOMES EGYPTOLOGIST ZAHI HAWASS AS WORLD CRUISE 2007 ENRICHMENT LECTURER Renowned Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass is set to join Silversea's World Cruise 2007 as an enrichment lecturer. Hawass is Egypt's secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the man most responsible for bringing the King Tut exhibition to the United States this year. He is slated to host a series of presentations aboard Silver Shadow as the ship journeys from Dubai to Alexandria from April 12 to 27, 2007. [Full text]

CELEBRITY CRUISES LEAPS TOWARD NEW CENTURY Celebrity Cruises has signed with Fincantieri in Palermo, Italy, to handle the significant revitalization of its 77,713-ton Century cruise ship in 2006. The approximately $55-million makeover designed to incorporate on Century a variety of Celebrity's most popular Millennium-class attributes marks the line's most extensive refurbishment to-date, and the first time the company has worked directly with Fincantieri. The Century project will be the largest cruise ship modification to-date for the Palermo yard. [Full text]

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