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Pam Stellini is an original. Her quirky outlook and wry humour defy categorization. Readers have compared her to Erma Bombeck and Art Buchwald with a travel spin – and we’re not about to argue. INVITATION FROM NORWAYMake your scream debut
29 JAN 2013: Gather up mice and spiders. Search out last winter’s hydro bills. You might need them. VISITNORWAY JUST LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN WHERE YOU GET TO USE YOUR OUTSIDE VOICE IN A PROMOTION CALLED 'THE SCREAM.'The promotion is based on the celebration of the famous ‘scream’ paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, born 12 December 1863.
HOSPITAL BY DAYHotel at night
17 JAN 2013: Booking hotel accommodations may be difficult at the best of times. We get hung up on WiFi, parking, whether or not breakfast is included, and if the hotel has room service. During the Christmas season there were people were booking hotels solely for the location; in that they provided access to their loved ones who were hospitalized out of town.
CELEBRITY WANNA BEThe Twitter Butler will do it
15 JAN 2013: I have a safe prediction for 2013. We, the commoners are going to be this much closer to achieving the lifestyles of the celebrities we worship. The demand for diamond and gold tooth implants may not be imminent, but there are those among us who would welcome the paparazzi.
ITALYAny way you want it
20 DEC 2012: The Italian Government Tourist Board and CTCPI (Canadian Travel Council Promoting Italy) were at the Columbus Centre in Toronto last week to celebrate the holiday season and announce what was new in Italy. There was no promise of a slick multimedia presentation. Italy’s allure is its natural charms.
GOT AEROPLAN NUMBERSGo Phish
18 DEC 2012: The unfamiliar would say it was my astute investigatory skills that broke the case open. I was a target in an internet scam, which I will herein refer to as GO PHISH. But it was in fact my partiality to correspondence etiquette that first triggered my suspicion and then that part about my investigation skills thing happened. This is the sequence of events that took place.
HANGZHOU HEAVENA city full of love and history
12-12-12: There is a famous Chinese saying "Above is heaven; below is Hangzhou" and 17 delegates from the capital of China’s Zhejiang Province stopped in Toronto last week to share that message. Marco Polo had himself described Hangzhou as “beyond dispute one of the finest and noblest cities in the world.”
MAKING AN ENTRANCESo you want to be a flight attendant
06 DEC 2012: Familiarity does nothing to diminish impression. When a group of uniformed flight attendants walk by the effect is notable; be it at the airport terminal, at the departures gate or arriving en masse at a trade show. When the flight students from Seneca College attended the CITC Students in Travel show in Toronto, they made an equally fitting entrance.
VISIT A CANUCKOur summer of hosting
04 DEC 2012: The Swedish tourist office doesn’t just say “come visit.” They take their invitation up a step; to their own door steps, with a campaign called Visit a Swede. They believe the tourist visit is enhanced by getting to know people who live in the country they are visiting and they have a website of 10,000 locals who have signed up to host visitors.
WITH LOVEPhiladelphia
28 NOV 2012: Imagine a city that still has a wooden paved street. Consider the unlikely placement of the world’s largest operational pipe organ in an architecturally significant downtown department store. The fact that the City of Philadelphia doesn’t have a sales tax on clothes and shoes is merely a lovely postscript.
HOSTEL ENVIRONMENTHow bad can it be
20 NOV 2012: Most hotels don’t have an advertising campaign using images of insects or cigarette butts. Well, a budget hostel in Amsterdam is breaking that trend, launching a brutally honest advertising campaign identifying everything about their lodging that is neglected, unsanitary or infectious.
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