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Vision’s Sheila Gallant-Halloran wins prestigious Virtuoso award in wellness – 08-14-2022  6:09 pm A Canadian Vision travel advisor scooped up a prestigious award at this year’s Virtuoso Travel Week, which is happening in Las Vegas until Aug. 19. Sheila Gallant-Halloran of Lush Life Travel (an affiliate of Vision) won the Virtuoso Travel Wellness Community Award for Luminaries, Legends and Leaders. The award was presented on […]

Canada’s PCR test policy at border “actively being looked at,” says Dr. Tam Buzz 11-05-2021  10:28 am Pax Global Media Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer. (file photo) Pax Global Media Canada’s pre-arrival PCR testing policy is “actively being looked at,” Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam is saying, according to a report in the Canadian Press. Canada first introduced

I was pleased to be able to participate in the Canadian Travel and Tourism Roundtable in Ottawa, with President and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Perrin Beatty.  

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

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/

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

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

Traveling Alone, Together – October 21, 2021 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

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