TORONTO — Cover-More Group Limited, a travel insurance assistance provider, is on track to break out in a big way now that it’s been approached By Zurich Insurance Co. to acquire the assets of Cover-More Inc. This offer raises the ability for Cover-More to obtain underwriting opportunities for insurance product on …

Mobilize is filling labour shortages across Canada. If you aren’t familiar with Mobilize, it’s a new staffing model that works on a rotational placement basis, supplying tourism, hospitality, resorts, golf courses and food services businesses with a continuous supply of hard-working young employees from across Canada. Mobilizers rotate to different …

The global experiential tourism trend is starting to catch on in the Okanagan. The concept of combining hands-on instruction with local food and wine is spreading rapidly around the world. It’s similar to dude ranches where tourists pay to help drive cattle or shear sheep before finishing off the day …

TORONTO — TICO has successfully won an appeal that has led to the conviction of Ron Greenwood of MKI Travel in Ottawa. Following TICO’s appeal of the decision made by Her Worship Justice of the Peace Lauzon on Sept. 22, 2015, the Ontario Court of Justice has now granted the appeal. …

CALIFORNIA — Now this is a story to tell the grandkids one day. Darrell Hamilton Jr., a journalist from California, planned the most romantic private plane proposal for his girlfriend Rheanna Lopez. Every detail was planned, from the pre-boarding hike along California’s Reedley Blossom Trail to the huge sign on the …

B.C.’s wine industry continues to be a major economic driver, contributing $2.8 billion to the economy in 2015. A recent Canadian wine and grape industry research study revealed the number, noting that B.C. wine accounts for 31 per cent of the country’s $9-billion wine and grape industry. They say B.C. …

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Nearly 1 in 5 European travel professionals surveyed by Global Business Travel Association report that their company has already cancelled business travel to the U.S. in the wake of the travel ban. The GBTA polled its U.S. and European members this week to assess the business travel …

During an already successful conference the Honourable Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism & Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour, added to the good news announcing the creation of a stable funding formula so Destination BC can continue its work of growing British Columbia’s tourism industry. Minister Bond spoke …

TORONTO — The U.S. travel industry is gearing up for a bumpy road ahead as it deals with the negative fallout from President Trump’s new travel ban. In the days leading up to yesterday’s new executive order, the U.S. Travel Association urged the Trump administration to include language making clear …

MIAMI — Travel agencies in Canada and the U.S. using the Amadeus System can now easily access and book Air Canada’s Preferred and Advance paid seat offerings. The airline’s implementation of Amadeus’ merchandising technology allows it to deliver more ancillary options to travel professionals. Preferred Seats, for example, provide travellers more …