The winners of the eighth annual BC Aboriginal Business Awards have been announced and they include a Kelowna business. The owner of Defy Hair and Esthetics has been named as this year’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year. The business located at 301 Highway 33 in Rutland offers a number of …

TORONTO — Agents and industry representatives were partying last night on the TIFF Bell Lightbox rooftop in celebration of Turkish cinema. Turkey has two movies showing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year – ‘Kor’ and ‘Tereddüt.’ The Turkish Consulate General Culture and Information Office hopes the films will showcase …

MAPLE — Threatening rain clouds didn’t stop the TravelBrands 3rd Annual Charity Golf Classic from raising over $182,000 for SickKids during a fun-filled day at Eagles Nest Golf Course in Maple, Ontario. The tournament reached the ambitious goal of fundraising more than $180,000 for the Labatt Family Heart Centre at …

TORONTO – There can never be too much sun, according to Air Canada Vacations, which recently hosted its 2nd annual #ACVDreamMakers Sun Collection Launch Event in Toronto. Taking place on Sept. 7 at MUZIK nightclub, the event highlighted the company’s brand new 2016/2017 sun brochure, its biggest one to date. …

A tourist boom is taking place in B.C.’s interior — with jam-packed beaches and campgrounds, line-ups at wineries, and extra traffic on the roads. Tourism boards in Kamloops, the Shuswap, Nelson, Revelstoke and Golden are all noticing increased traffic. Using preliminary statistics, some are reporting that visitors to the region …

While it is a little cold and dreary outside, it’s great weather for a bunch of grape pickers that just got very busy. This year’s wine harvest has already begun at wineries up and down the Valley with pickers quickly moving from picking fruit trees to picking vines. In fact, …

BEIJING — Chinese flag-carrier Air China said Thursday that it had removed copies of its inflight magazine containing an article criticized as racist for telling visitors to take precautions when visiting areas of London with large ethnic-minority populations. The state-owned airline said in an email to The Associated Press that …

I absolutely love it when states promote specifics. It is so difficult, and politically difficult, that most states simply try to be all things to all people. Recently we developed a list of all 50 U.S. states and then to the right we listed each state’s tourism slogan, mixing them …

A trail that connects 15,000 communities across Canada is coming in 2017. It’s called “The Great Trail” and it will be a pathway spread along 24,000 kilometres of Canada’s natural beauty. It will be the world’s largest network of recreational trails from coast-to-coast once completed! “To follow the horizon along …

There is a new movement in the BC wine industry… sustainable business. Whether it’s the market demand for sustainably produced wines, tourism support for green business or leadership from tourism associations, wineries throughout the province are making business decisions with the environment in mind. Several BC wineries have sought out advice …