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24 OCT 2011: Things got really serious when British comedian Rowan Atkinson most famous as his television persona, Mr Bean, took over the controls of a small plane containing his wife and children after the pilot passed out 16,000ft over Kenya.
03 OCT 2011: Well, as I suspect many of you already know, this past week was a pretty spectacular one for me. And I am still enjoying the thrill and enormity of it all. I am about to achieve one of my life’s ambitions – how phenomenal is that?
03 OCT 2011: Reading earlier this summer that some major cruise lines were pulling out of the ‘far south’ got me thinking about a cruise I took to the ‘far north.’ It was different right from the start. I took my seat on my First Air flight out of Montreal headed for Kuujjuaq in northern Quebec. Beside me sat two ladies, I later learned, one a grandmother and one a great-grandmother.
03 OCT 2011: The American Queen Steamboat Company is gearing up for the maiden voyage of its paddlewheel steamboat in April 2012. If you’re looking for something that’s old, new and different all at once, this is it. It’s a wonderful way to explore America’s waterways including the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
03 OCT 2011: When Avalon Waterways unveiled the Avalon Panorama five months ago - the industry’s first Suite Ship – it was pretty sure it had a winner, and it was right. With unprecedented sales for the Panorama, Avalon will introduce two more Suite Ships in 2012 – the Avalon Vista and Avalon Visionary.
03 OCT 2011: Tourism spending in Canada slipped 0.1 percent in real terms in the second quarter, following seven straight quarterly gains. Statistics Canada reports higher spending by non-residents in Canada was offset by lower spending by Canadians at home - down 0.4 percent in the second quarter after averaging gains of 1.1 percent since the second quarter of 2009.
03 OCT 2011: Preliminary figures indicate that Alaska saw fewer cruise ship passengers this year. The president of the Alaska Cruise Association, John Binkley, says an estimated 870,000 passengers took cruises to Alaska this summer. That compares to 878,000 last year and falls short of the estimated 887,000 passengers that were expected.
03 OCT 2011: Ever wonder about the tradition of having a ‘godmother’ smack a bottle of champagne on the side of a ship to get things rolling? Well, events last week got us thinking about it so we did a little research and found it quite interesting. It all began way back in the third century BC, when oxen and even humans could be sacrificed to ensure safe passage for passengers and crew.
04 OCT 2011: As we head into the busy booking season two timely reports relevant to agents have been recently published by the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA). The two reports, the 2010 Service Fee Report and the 2010 Labour and Compensation Report, provide valuable information to agents on salary and revenue.
04 OCT 2011: Space, the final frontier. Will the voyages of the Starship Enterprise ever be the same. Can it ever boldly go where no man has gone before? If it does, it will have to do so without Mr. Spock. Leonard Nimoy says he has attended his final "Star Trek" convention.
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