Increasing airlift between Canada and Grenada, and a lifting of the Canadian visa restriction on Grenadians, are among areas of priority in the National Democratic Congress administration’s attempts at strengthening and enhancing relations with Canada.
FIT wholesaler Travel Bound just announced 18 new packages for independent travel clients in cities throughout Central and Northern Europe. In addition to the more famous Christmas market towns, such as Munich and Salzburg, Travel Bound’s packages are offered in Basel, Berlin, Bratislava, Geneva, Hamburg, Krakow, Prague, Stockholm, Tallinn and Vienna.
The Great Canadian Travel Company is offering a package to Sweden’s aptly named Icehotel, which is built every year in Jukkasjarvi in Sweden’s Lapland from snow and crystal-clear ice. When summer comes to Jukkasjarvi, which is located 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle, the 80-room hotel melts down and trickles into the Torne River. It is the oldest hotel of its kind in the world. The winter of 2008/2009 will usher in the 19th annual version of Icehotel.
UNWTO welcomed the Kingdom of Norway as its 154th Member State, representing the 45th Member State within UNWTO’s Regional Commission for Europe.
Today’s minority market, accounting for $90 billion a year on travel receipts, is getting close to becoming the majority travel market. Despite this fact, very little is being spent towards advertising to this market segment in the U.S., and overseas including the Caribbean and African markets, because of the perception that “they don’t spend.”
The government and two cruise corporations –Royal Caribbean Cruises Limited and Carnival Corp- are in negotiations to extend a more than $34 million guarantee from both lines to land passengers into the island.
It is the opposite of the American Airlines deal, where the government pays the airline for missed passenger targets. Instead, these two cruise corporations, the biggest in the world (controlling 80 per cent of cruise travel), will pay government for missed passenger targets.