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By QMI Agency
Last Updated: February 24, 2010 11:21am Forget California, Canada is now North America's premiere surf destination.
According to Outside Magazine, which recently released their 2010 Editor's
Choice Awards, Tofino, B.C. is the best surf town in North America.
The magazine included the west coast destination as part of its "51 Perfect
Things" which includes their favourite L. L
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Lizbeth Brito was frustrated with her hotel housekeeping job because her English wasn't good enough to interact with her co-workers and management.
But since Brito, a native of Mexico City, took part in a pilot project through NorQuest College, her English has improved and she got a promotion at the downtown Days Inn.
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To celebrate 20 innovative years providing life-changing travel experiences across the globe, Gap Adventures is launching the Create Your Own Adventure contest, the largest and most ambitious interactive competition in the company’s history.
The global online contest invites everyone from once-a-year vacationers to seasoned globetrotters to submit an itinerary for the tour of their dreams, virtually anywhere in the world, virtually any way they want
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The International Spa Association (ISPA) Foundation has opened the application process for the Mary Tabacchi Scholarship.
The scholarship was created in 2006 and named in honour of Cornell University Associate Professor Mary H. Tabacchi. It is open to all students interested in spa management, and the recipient will receive US$2,500 (1,805 euro, £1,577) towards their education
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The famous British tycoon Richard Branson is set to reveal his latest gift to the world – an underwater plane to provide tourists with the opportunity to voyage the bottom of the sea. He is certainly not the first person to have Jules Verne in mind when inventing something, yet he also has the cash to realize such an idea
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If there’s anything that’s sunk lower than profit margins during the recession, it might be employee morale. And as workers get laid off, benefits get cut and stress takes hold, it’s not just your associates who are suffering—guests are too, as they experience less than glowing service
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Federal and provincial government officials said Friday that they will establish a new National Park in Labrador.
Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice and Newfoundland and
Labrador Environment Minister Charlene Johnson were in Happy
Valley-Goose Bay in central Labrador, Feb. 5 to talk about Mealy
Mountain National Park
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From Jan 2010 edition of Canadian Lodging News At the annual Tourism HR Forum— MONTREAL, QC Rudi Fischbacher, a professor at Humber College in Toronto and chairman of the Canadian Culinary Federation’s Canadian Culinary Institute, announced in November that he would be working for the next year to help develop an applied degree at Holland College in Charlottetown, PEI for people with the designation Certified Chef de Cuisine, of which there are more than 1,000 in Canada
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From Jan 2010 edition of Canadian Lodging News
MONTREAL—The revenue potential for businesses serving tourists, including those in the food and beverage and accommodation sectors, is going to keep growing over the next 15 years. However, the gap between labour supply and demand is also going to grow to the point where the shortage of workers will be a serious impediment, holding back billions of dollars in potential revenue
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B.C.’s gold-medal-winning senator and tourism entrepreneur didn’t rest on her laurels after winning the giant slalom in Grenoble.
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