My colleague, Maureen Hutchinson, and I host a weekly chat on twitter with our favourite VAST (which stands for Virtuoso Active and Specialty Travel) partners. It takes place every Friday at 11 am est. (Just follow the hashtag #VastChat to join in the fun.) On Friday, Aug.23rd, we were fortunate to have Ashish Sanghrajka, the […]
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My colleague, Maureen Hutchinson, and I host a weekly chat on twitter with our favourite VAST (which stands for Virtuoso Active and Specialty Travel) partners. It takes place every Friday at 11 am est. (Just follow the hashtag #VastChat to join in the fun.) On Friday, Aug.2nd, we were fortunate to have Lesa Bain, the
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You gotta love a company who has the motto: “don’t tell stories better, tell better stories!” Big Five Tours & Expedition is BIG into sustainable travel. Big Five is a member of VAST (Virtuoso Active & Specialty Travel). They are not dabbling in sustainability. Sustainability is where they belong. As President Ashish Sanghrajka recently
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Here’s the Ottawa division of the active travel department, getting together to discuss experiential travel. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXa3L8_eAzY&feature=c4-overview&list=UU4lUGLkA5gZ-Id5f6IJlraw Vision 2000 has a new active travel division. And that means I can now offer you even more terrific product. Active travel doesn’t mean that you are travelling without toilet paper! It doesn’t mean you are sleeping
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Images of Cinque Terre and Tuscany pull you to come visit. I recently hosted a twitter chat with my colleague @moe_adventure, with special guest from @tauck, Jackie Coulson (@yearsoftravel). Maureen and I will host a tour of Cinque Terre and Tuscany with Tauck Tours next May. Read the transcript to learn more about why
On Friday, June 25th, my colleague Maureen Hutchinson and I hosted our third tweet chat, discussing our Virtuoso partners. Maureen and I like to shout out about the terrific experiences we can offer our clients, and focus on travel experiences you cannot google. On Friday, we were fortunate to have Carla Magri and Ana Maria
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The Rocky Mountaineer is a fantastic train ride through Canada’s Rockies. It has won top awards for the experience, including: *Six-time winner of World’s Leading Travel Experience by Train by the World Travel Awards * Named One of the world’s “Best Life-Changing Trips” by Travel + Leisure * Named one of the World’s Greatest Trips by National Geographic
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On March 13th, I was invited to attend the “Jump Into Ireland” event with the Tourism Board of Ireland. And what better than the week of St. Patrick’s Day to toast Ireland, drink a Guinness, and learn more about the new tourism opportunities to visit Ireland. Of course, 2013 is the year of “the gathering.”
This past Wednesday, I had been invited by Graham Dickson, the co-founder of Arctic Kingdom, to attend a luncheon about the “Jewel of the Arctic.” Learning more about the land of the midnight sun, and Nunavut, really intrigued me; so I’d gladly accepted his kind invitation to lunch at the Rideau Club. I had
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With the start of the third unmissable series of Downton Abbey, my Virtuoso partners, A&K, have put together the perfect tour for all fans of the compelling period drama. As well as a visit to Highclere Castle, the real-life Downton Abbey and the Oxfordshire village of Bampton, the location used for filming many of the village
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