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| TRAINING WITH TRANSAT/NOLITOURS |
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Agent training session covers what’s new for Winter 2007/2008
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| Margaret MacFarlane, Steve Brown, Susan Nicol, Denise Graham, Sue Peaks, all sales representatives for Transat/Nolitours | | Transat and Nolitours hosted an agent training session last night at the Novotel Toronto Centre, covering new material for four brochures. The presentations highlighted new developments with Nolitours’ sun brochure, Nolitours’ Florida brochure, Transat’s sun brochure and Transat’s cruise brochure. All together, Nolitours and Transat Holidays are offering 83 new hotels, 5 new cruiselines and 4 new ships for your clients’ winter vacations this year.
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| VISITBRITAIN WELCOMES EXECUTIVE VP |
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VisitBritain hosts welcome lunch for Simon Bradley, new Executive Vice President, The Americas
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| Paul Gauger, Public Relations Manager, The Americas, VisitBritain; Valerie Schroder, Press & PR Manager, VisitBritain Toronto; Simon Bradley, Executive Vice President, The Americas, VisitBritain | | VisitBritain yesterday welcomed Simon Bradley to Toronto, recently appointed Executive Vice President, The Americas. A reception and welcome luncheon was held yesterday afternoon for suppliers and the media at Canoe restaurant in Toronto. The 54th floor of the TD Tower afforded visitors a view of the Toronto waterfront at the reception. Valerie Schroder, Press & PR Manager for VisitBritain’s Toronto office, introduced Bradley, who was pleased to note even higher Canadian visitation numbers for 2006, with a little further to go to meet “the magic million mark”. Some new and exciting things happening include Liverpool’s status as “2008 European Capital of Culture”; the city will also be celebrating its 800th birthday. London is also set to receive the Olympic torch in anticipation of hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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| SUNWING NOW IN YVR |
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| Gerry Roussin, VP Sales & Marketing, Western Canada | | New Western Canada office ready for business
Sunwing Vacations’ new Western Canada office is up and running and ready for business, says Gerry Roussin, the operator’s vice president of sales and marketing for the west. “We have over 500 travel agents registered for our agent seminars, and bookings are well ahead of projections, even without a brochure in the market,” said Roussin. Sunwing’s new offices, now serve agencies from British Columbia to Manitoba, as well as the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. The new office is located at 1020 – 1500 West Georgia Street, Vancouver V6G 2Z6; telephone 1-877-877-1755.
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| PAY NO TAX WITH SIGNATURE! |
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Signature Vacations announces their biggest sale of the year with the "Pay No Tax" event
The Signature Vacations "Pay No Tax" sale offers a great deal on winter vacation packages, with no 'black out' dates or product exclusions. For a limited time from September 6-12, 2007 passengers are invited to book any vacation package throughout the Caribbean and Mexico departing November 1, 2007 until April 30, 2008 and take advantage of savings of up to $447 per couple. The sale pricing is already reflected in adult package prices and is combinable with Early Booking Bonuses but no other promotions. For more information, visit signaturevacations.com.
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| SUNQUEST HURRICANE HENRIETTE UPDATE |
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Minimal damage reported; guests are back out on the beach in Los Cabos
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| Los Cabos, Mexico | | Hurricane Henriette passed through the Los Cabos area on Tuesday afternoon as a Category 1 hurricane and all watches and warnings were discontinued as of yesterday morning. Sunquest has issued a media statement updating everyone on the status of the area. The weather yesterday was reported at 30ºC with sunny skies, and Sunquest guests are back outside using the pools and enjoying the destination. The tour operator’s staff has been through the area and is reporting that although the storm passed by with heavy rain and winds, it caused minimal damage. All power to the area has been restored and the airport has been fully operational since 8am yesterday morning.
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| FELIX AND HENRIETTE RAINING REMNANTS |
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Remnants of Hurricanes Felix and Henriette dump rain through Central America, Mexico, Southern U.S.
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| Nicaragua after Hurricane Felix; photo courtesy of AP | | Passing through Nicaragua, Hurricane Felix blew away villages, flooded rivers and killed at least 18 people. The remains of Felix were still dumping rain Wednesday on Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, and thousands of evacuees anxiously stayed away from shaky hillside slums and swollen rivers. Far to the northwest, meanwhile, Henriette plowed into Mexico for the second time in two days, making landfall shortly before 9 p.m. EDT near the port city of Guaymas with top sustained winds of 120 km/h. Seven deaths were reported from the Pacific storm, which hit Baja California on Tuesday.
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| WHEN WILL 787 FLY? |
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Boeing's new 787 won't fly until November or December
Boeing Co. will not begin test flights of its new 787 jetliner until mid-November or mid-December, months later than originally planned. It is taking longer than anticipated to get the first plane ready, the company said Wednesday. Boeing initially aimed to begin flight-testing within a month long window in late August, but early last month acknowledged that the first flight might not happen until October. The midsize, long-haul 787 is the first large commercial jetliner being made mostly from composites, which Boeing has promised will make the plane more fuel efficient and cheaper to maintain, because carbon fibre-reinforced plastics are lighter and more durable than aluminium.
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| CARNIVAL NOT TO PROCEED |
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Carnival & TUI withdraw from joint venture to form new cruise brand for Germany
Carnival Corporation & plc announced yesterday that it has agreed with Germany’s TUI to withdraw its antitrust filings with the German Federal Cartel Agency, Undeskartellamt, and the Austrian Federal Cartel Agency, Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde. Carnival and TUI had agreed to form a joint venture to develop a new cruise brand for Germany. Carnival cited an extremely difficult regulatory environment in Germany, which makes it impossible to close the proposed joint venture this fiscal year. Failure to do so would create adverse tax consequences for the company that would impact the economics of the transaction. As a result of the regulatory and tax issues Carnival and TUI have agreed not to proceed with the proposed joint venture but will continue to explore other opportunities.
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