TORONTO — Toronto Pearson International Airport will welcome over 9.6 million passengers in July and August with an average of 120,000 passengers per day flying in and out of Canada’s largest airport in the summer months. That’s up an extra 10,000 passengers per day over the same time period in …

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Medical tourism equals big bucks and is projected to grow at a staggering rate over the next 10 years, says a new report by VISA and Oxford Economics. The report values the Medical Tourism industry at an incredible US$439 billion, with a projected growth rate …

TORONTO — Trafalgar Canada has named Oben Sert as its new Sales Manager for British Columbia. Sert comes to Trafalgar with experience in marketing, sales and management in education and travel, for companies such as EF Education First where he helped teachers in every facet of planning their tours. “We …

HO CHI MINH CITY — “Welcome to Vietnam!” was not the warm greeting one Chinese woman received upon arrival. Instead, she claims the Vietnamese border official scribbled “f**k you” on two pages of her passport, reports several Chinese papers. According to Mashable, the words were written across a controversial map …

RICHMOND, VA — A new Allianz shows almost a quarter of travellers will cancel, delay, relocate, change or reconsider their travel plans based on concerns about terror attacks. Some 86% of respondents said they’re worried about terrorist attacks occurring while on vacation in various regions of the world in the …

TORONTO — At this restaurant in Java, Indonesia, the best seat in the house is made of porcelain. Jamban Café in Semarang is making headlines for being a toilet-themed eatery, complete with ‘porcelain thrones’ doubling as chairs and bedpans masked as food platters. Since its opening in April, Jamban – …

British Columbia wines are about to get a big exposure boost, after the premiers of Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia came to an agreement to make it easier to sell wine across provincial borders. At the 2016 Summer Meeting of Canada’s Premiers, Premiers Christy Clark, Kathleen Wynne and Philippe Couillard …

Sasquatch should be a little nervous. Like Google cars caught your neighbours watering the lawn (or worse) for Street View, the technology giant is heading into Canada’s most remote wilderness areas on the backs of some Nature Conservancy of Canada employees — literally. The NCC has just embarked on its …

Air Canada launched new international routes to Brisbane and Dublin, along with new transborder routes to San Jose, Chicago, and San Diego.  Air Canada has also placed its 787 on its daily Newark flight, to facilitate connections between the critical and high-yielding New York market and its international network to …

San Francisco wants people who rent out their homes through Airbnb and other online platforms to follow some rules, and it wants the platforms to advertise only those rule-abiding listings — or face steep fines. That means Airbnb and others must stick to advertising San Francisco hosts who have registered …