Dakar, Senegal is a most curious place Travelling in West Africa is complex because West Africa is complex. The last leg of my journey was a short hop from Guinea to Dakar. This 450-mile leg is as Dallas to Kansas or San Francisco to San Diego, yet we flew over four international boundaries. Had we […]
The Shosholoza Meyl train is a gentle introduction to private trains! Private Railways Private railway travel evokes some rather splendid images; The Orient Express and The Golden Eagle are but two of the companies offering the most luxurious of travel on board their private railway carriages. And wonderful they are too, to which I can […]
Aeroplan is changing; are we? The Aimia/Aeroplan saga trundles along as it will for some time to come, with a regular diet of smiles and positivity coming to us all from Aimia. This, of course, is to be expected, but there are certain elements of the future that are far from defined, and far from […]
Aeroplan’s slow demise started months ago, and Air Canada’s announcement yesterday that they were going to intervene in their headline program was simply an inevitable conclusion to a slow motion drama. That Air Canada did not own their primary trade-brand has come of a bit of a shock to a lot of people. First, some […]
Here, in a different spin on the blog, is a conversation that I had with CBC Radio’s Nadia Kidwai about the ever-changing rules and regulations about travel. Not only passport validity needs to be checked, and the requirements vary from country to country, but visas, childrens’ documentation and other entry requirements. Canada’s introduction of an […]
Are you again supposed to reconfirm your return flights? United Airlines – tell us it ain’t so …… A friend checking in to Lisbon airport this morning for a United flight to Newark was advised that his reservation had been cancelled three days previously. Curiously, he had been invited that morning by United to check-in […]
United Airlines over booking their flight, UA 3411, opened a difficult and messy can of worms. And not before time. More folks flying means more crowded and overbooked planes The United Airlines incident is a most instructive situation, and one that has drawn a number of issues to the public’s attention. I worked in the […]
Tourism is a wonderful industry, but as with many endeavors, it comes with its own perils. “Over-tourism” is here to stay. Tourism embodies the ideal of people moving around the world to meet other people, understand other cultures and become more globally aware, an important asset in today’s globalised society. It brings wealth to countries […]
It is true to say that in general, tourist resorts hold little fascination for me but tourism does. I am intrigued by the ebb and flow of people seeking a brief sojourn in another country or place, and have spent most of my life working in this industry. Tourism flows are determined by many issues, […]