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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Give Thanks

I hope you are celebrating fall and Thanksgiving with family and friends this week. I give thanks that I am. Last week, I was surprised to be named Ottawa’s Best Travel Agency. I give thanks for that. https://www.bestinottawa.com/top-travel-agency-ottawa/ This week, I was interviewed by Travel Courier, a Canadian travel trade publication by Baxter Media about what

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“How’s It Going Really” – Canadian travel Baxter Media – October 7, 2021

I was 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 workload to ensure all my travelling clients are able to enter, transit, test, prove their vax has been wild – but – we’re travelling again. https://travelcourier.ca/hows-it-going-really/  by Ann Rupenstein – October 7, 2021 Sheila

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Lush Life Travel named “Best in Ottawa”

This week, I was surprised by an honour. I was named “Best in Ottawa” as the “Top Travel Agency in Ottawa.” See https://www.bestinottawa.com/top-travel-agency-ottawa/#1_Lush_Life_Travel The award/ selection process noted: As an affiliate of Vision Travel Solutions, Lush Life Travel has its own offices in Ottawa instead of Toronto. It’s headed by Sheila Gallant-Halloran whose passion for an

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