Sheila Gallant-Halloran

Businesses, Families Call On Feds To Drop PCR Test – Travel Press – Nov.4.21

https://ca.travelpulse.com/news/impacting-travel/businesses-families-call-on-feds-to-drop-pcr-test.html Businesses, Families Call On Feds To Drop PCR Test Impacting Travel Air Canada Bruce Parkinson November 04, 2021 PHOTO: Multigenerational travel (photo courtesy monkeybusinessimages/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, travel businesses and families are calling on the federal government to remove “unnecessary and non-science-based” obstacles to international travel, such as the pre-departure […]

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Calls to end PCR test for Canadian travellers – Nov.4.21 – CityTV News Montreal

Nov.4.21 – CityTV News Montreal Calls to end PCR test for Canadian travellers As the number of fully vaccinated Canadians inches higher, families, business leaders and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce are calling on Ottawa to end mandatory PCR tests for returning Canadian travellers. Nigel Newlove reports. Click to play video ; https://montreal.citynews.ca/video/2021/11/04/calls-to-end-pcr-test-for-canadian-travellers/

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Travel agent’s voice of reason as Roundtable outlines PCR cost impact on family travel – Nov.4.21- Travelweek.ca

Nov.4.21- Travelweek.ca Travel agent’s voice of reason as Roundtable outlines PCR cost impact on family travel Travel agent’s voice of reason as Roundtable outlines PCR cost impact on family travel Sheila Gallant-Halloran, Vision Travel, Ottawa Date: Nov 4 2021 By: Kathryn Folliott Share  OTTAWA — The Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable today called on the federal government

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Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable – Press Conference – November 4, 2021

On November 4, 2021, I was invited to participate in the Canadian Travel and Tourism Roundtable at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa. https://youtu.be/LHea91ULx3M Canada’s Travel Rules Punitive for Middle-Class Families • Mandatory pre-departure PCR testing for fully vaccinated Canadian travellers is proving prohibitively expensive for Canadian families • Travel & Tourism Roundtable calls on the

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Traveling Alone, Together

Traveling Alone, Together – This week, I was interviewed as part of a story by CBC Radio‘s Jason Osler about why solo travelers are traveling in groups. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-90-columnists-from-cbc-radio/clip/15873608-traveling-alone-together Jason and I spent over a half an hour, and I wasn’t sure which clips he’d use in his piece, or how he’d frame it (and maybe some

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Travel Press “How’s It Going Really?” – October 20,2021

Travel Press picked up the article by Travel Courier on October 20, 2021. See https://www.travelpress.com/hows-it-going-really/#.YXVpxZ7MK70 Sheila Gallant-Halloran describes her job as a travel advisor as being “at least three times more complicated than it was before COVID.” Why? The owner Lush Life Travel, an affiliate of Vision Travel, explains that among other things she now

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The Re-Opening

The Re-Opening! There is lots of news this week. It started with me being interviewed by Canadian travel Baxter Media about what it’s like to be a travel advisor right now. https://travelcourier.ca/hows-it-going-really/  The craziness of the workload in ensuring all my travelling clients are entering, transiting, testing, proving their vaccination status, enjoying (the most important part), and

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