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| FLash | Steven Kaufman leaves Vacation.com, John Lovell, vp of sales, assumes responsibilities
Vacation.com has announced that “Steven Kaufman, president of Vacation.com Canada has left the company to pursue other opportunities,” according to Dick Knodt, CTC, president and CEO of Vacation.com. “John Lovell, vice president of sales for Vacation.com will take over these responsibilities supported by the remaining sales and service staff in Canada,” added Knodt. |
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| FLash | Branson's Virgin Group creating “21st century airline” in Nigeria
Virgin Group boss Richard Branson has signed an agreement with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to launch a new Nigerian airline that will be majority owned by Nigerian investors. Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways will hold a 49 per cent stake in Virgin Nigeria. |
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| "First Choice Canada Inc." : New Umbrella Name for Signature Group |
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 Nick Longman, president of Signature Vacations Inc., is pleased to announce a new corporate umbrella name: First Choice Canada. Trading under the umbrella will be all six divisions of the company in Canada: Signature Vacations, Sunflight Holidays/Sol-Vac, Encore Cruises, and the retail brands. Each will retain its own name in day-to-day dealings.
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| First Choice Announces Promotions, Management Reorganization |
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Nick Longman, president of First Choice Canada Inc., announced the following changes primarily affecting its tour wholesale division comprising Signature Vacations and Sunflight Holidays. Christina Groth has been promoted to vice-president, aviation and operations, assuming the responsibilities of Rose Cosentino, who has left the company. Kevin Kalbfleisch has been promoted to Groth's former position of general manager/ Ontario and Atlantic Canada. Anne Mullins has been appointed to director of operations and customer service, assuming the duties of Linda Wright, who has left Signature.
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| Air Canada Vacations Update: Destinations and Resorts Availability |
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Air Canada Vacations provides the following update on the availability of its hotels and destinations. Dominican Republic – Puerto Plata: Open (all flights and hotels operational). Punta Cana: Open (bookings accepted for October 9 departures onward). La Romana: Open (bookings accepted; program/flights start December 18).
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| CanJet's launches fall seat sale |
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CanJet, Canada's Low-Fare Airline, today launched a system-wide Fall Seat Sale with huge  savings on every route. Doug Newson, the airline's Director of Marketing & Sales Delivery, said, "I am pleased to announce that Canada's Low-Fare Airline is again setting the pace and maintaining the industry standard for everyday low fares and great value with the launch of our Fall Seat Sale."
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| Carnival Corporation & plc signs five-ship cooperation agreement with Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani S.P.A. |
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 Carnival Corporation & plc today announced that it has signed a historic multi-billion-dollar cooperation agreement with Italian shipyard Fincantieri to construct four new cruise ships as well as significantly redesign the previously announced Queen Victoria for its Cunard Line brand. Two of the newbuilding orders have been placed in U.S. dollars; two others are in euros. The Queen Victoria redesign is in a combination of euros and dollars.
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| Royal Caribbean International goes to new lengths to offer innovative, unexpected experiences for guests |
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 Royal Caribbean International will go to new lengths in 2005 to offer guests unforgettable new ways to experience the sea - and sky - aboard its Vision-class ship, Enchantment of the Seas. The ship, which is slated to be stretched in spring 2005 with a new 73-foot midsection, will feature suspension bridges, an overhanging bar offering spectacular panoramic views, and bungee trampolines that send guests soaring into the air high above the ocean.
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| FLash | Scientist says small eruption likely on Mount St. Helens within days
The flurry of earthquakes at Mount St. Helens intensified further Thursday, and one scientist put the chance of a small eruption happening in the next few days at 70 per cent. Jeff Wynn, chief scientist at the U.S. Geologic Survey's Cascade Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash., said tiny quakes were happening three or four times a minute. Larger quakes, with magnitudes of 3.0 to 3.3, were happening every three or four minutes, he said. New measurements show the 297-metre lava dome in the volcano's crater has moved six centimetres to the north since Monday, Wynn said. "Imagine taking a 1,000-foot-high (300-metre) pile of rocks and moving it 2[inches (six centimetres)]. For a geologist, that's a lot of energy," Wynn said. Wynn estimated there was a 70 per cent chance the activity will result in an eruption. |
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| FLash | Accovia provides travel wholesalers with the industry’s most sophisticated sales contract tool
Accovia Inc., the global leader in travel packaging technology, today announces the availability of its Sales Contract Tool. With the Sales Contract Tool, travel wholesalers and tour operators can now streamline distribution agreements, facilitate distribution control and maximize yield, even on high volume inventory. The Sales Contract Tool is designed to provide better forecasts by product, client and market, as well as automate and enforce payment policies such as minimum deposits, cancellation and change fees. |
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| FLash | German tourism giant TUI to cut 8% of British workforce, 800 job
German tourism giant TUI AG said Thursday it plans to cut eight per cent of its British workforce in an effort to streamline its business. TUI said 800 jobs would go at tour operator Thomson, travel agency chain Lunn Poly and charter airline Britannia, with the cuts being made by the end of this year. Changes in booking and traveling habits "make more efficient structures necessary," TUI's manager for northern Europe, Peter Rothwell, said in a statement. "We are already No.1 in the direct booking business and we want to build on this position." |
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