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Why Canada doesn’t waste its time or money on marketing in the U.S.
DestinationsCanada’s national tourism marketing firm doesn’t want to compete for U.S. tourists any more. In 2012, the Canadian Tourism Commission stopped all media relations, public relations, and social media work in the U.S. after finding little return on the money they laid for expensive marketing campaigns. American visitors spent an average of $518 per trip [...]
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Amtrak expands vacation packages after receiving confidence boost from high ridership
TransportThe country’s renewed thirst for rail and domestic travel has given Amtrak Vacations the confidence to significantly increase its capacity and product offerings for 2013 in the hopes that U.S. travelers are poised to rediscover the lost practice of leisure rail travel. “Amtrak and Amtrak Vacations are really like the sleeping giant,” said Frank Marini, [...]
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Business travel to and from Canada grows more than leisure travel
DestinationsStatistics Canada says overnight business travel to and from Canada increased at a faster pace than pleasure travel in the first quarter this year. Canadian travellers made 673,000 overnight business trips to the United States in the first quarter, up 12.3 per cent from the first quarter of 2011. Meanwhile, Canadian residents took nearly 3.3 [...]
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Survey suggests that millennials can’t relax quite like their parents do
SkiftXThe 2012 Princess Cruises Relaxation Report, commissioned in celebration of National Relaxation Day on Aug. 15, revealed that Boomers and their adult children’s generation of Millennials have very different vacation habits, from social media vices to work-life balance, with the latter finding it more difficult to, or simply refusing to, truly disconnect while on holiday. [...]
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Leisure travelers wish list: convenient schedule, free bags and nonstop flights
OriginalWhile in-flight Internet and onboard power outlets near your footies are important to leisure travelers on flights, their top priorities are a convenient schedule, freebie bag-checkins, and nonstop routes. Those are findings culled from an Atmosphere Research Group online survey of 2,530 leisure travelers conducted during the second quarter. Asked to gauge the importance of [...]
