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| ACTA turns 3O |
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Marks anniversary with a "Celebration of Excellence."
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| Christiane Théberge | | The Association of Canadian Travel Agencies (ACTA) will be marking its 30th anniversary next year and invites its members and partners to a celebration of excellence with the introduction of its Canada-wide ATLAS Awards. The purpose of the awards is to provide recognition, both official and public, of the outstanding work done by the travel community. The five award categories are: . Travel Professional of the Year . Allied Member of the Year . Personality of the Year . Travel Agency of the Year . The Ches Chard Award, created in memory of Ches Chard, who played a key role in the development of the industry's education programs.
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| Travel Groups urge U.S. to stop Passenger Data Mining |
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Files maintained on travellers without their knowledge or consent
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| Michael Chertoff | | ACTA has joined 32 major Canadian, U.S. and European travel industry associations and companies urging the U.S. government to immediately suspend the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Automated Targeting System (ATS). The groups are concerned that the system, which they say is "a far reaching and invasive screening of millions of business travelers entering and exiting the U.S. could do significant personal harm to them, and reduce the productivity of the organizations that field business travelers. The associations label ATS as "a truly monolithic and disturbing data-mining program." The letter charges that while ATS allows for the aggregation of personal information on business travellers," it forbids those same travellers from accessing and correcting inaccuracies, permits the sharing of information with foreign governments and third parties and retains travellers' personal information for 40 years."
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| Another senior resignation at WestJet |
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Handford, executive vice-president, People leaves
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| Matthew Handford | |
WestJet today announced that Matthew Handford, executive vice-president, People, has resigned from his position. He will be leaving WestJet in the first quarter of 2007. Sean Durfy, president of WestJet commented, "Matthew has been a solid member of the Executive team over the past eighteen months and we are sorry to see him go. He led the development and execution of our leadership succession plan and was instrumental in putting in place an excellent human resources team that is highly proficient and capable of deploying our strategies going forward. Matthew is leaving WestJet to assume a senior human resources position with a national retail organization."
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| NEW APPOINTMENT AT TOUR EAST HOLIDAYS |
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Donna Mulligan named director, product development
Tour East Holidays has announced the appointment of Donna Mulligan to the position of Director, Product Development. Mulligan brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her new role and will spearhead Tour East Holidays' recently announced expansion plans into the U.S. market.
Mulligan began her industry career as a Director of Marketing with Liberty Travel/GOGO Worldwide Vacation. Most recently, she served as the director, Product Development for National Leisure Group (NLG). In making the appointment, Annie Tsu, executive vice president & director, said, "we are very fortunate to have someone with Donna's travel industry experience and knowledge on our team to help position and expand our business in the U.S. market.
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| Women's Travel Network partners TOURCAN VACATIONS |
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New holiday experiences for women
Tourcan Vacations and The Women's Travel Network have announced a new partnership. There has been a huge interest in tours for women over the past years, in particular to exotic destinations for which Tourcan Vacations is well known and this partnership has been created to give women travellers access to the most exotic destinations in the world in order to experience "journeys of a lifetime". After 25 years in the travel industry, Debbie Ross, founder of the Women's Travel Network realized the need for women to have an opportunity to travel without single supplements, or the hassles of finding a travel partner.
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| Rosie O'Donnell christens Norwegian Pearl in Miami |
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Benefit cruise raises $600,000 for needy kids
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| Rosie O'Donnell | | Emmy award winning actress Rosie O'Donnell christened the Norwegian Pearl on Saturday night at a Freestyle ceremony that included a video of NCL president and CEO Colin Veitch playing guitar while scaling the ship's rock wall, ship's officers dancing and chefs twirling knives.' O'Donnell named Norwegian Pearl after announcing that Friday night's benefit cruise raised more than $600,000 for needy children. Before pulling the lever to release the bottle of champagne to christen the ship, O'Donnell joked that she had been practicing on the casino's slot machines. "I am proud to christen Norwegian Pearl and help NCL celebrate 40 successful years," O'Donnell said.
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