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Ilona Kauremszky is an experienced journalist whose writing pursuits have taken her around the globe, from where she’s filed numerous articles on the travel industry for leading consumer and trade publications. MAKING A MARKKentucky comes to town
12 JUN 2013: Spirits were high at the Hilton in downtown Toronto last week. It helped that bourbon was on the menu, but so was a Kentucky entourage ready to dish on why Kentucky matters to Canadians.
CHILDHOOD DREAMSAn Encounter with Dr. Hawass
11 JUN 2013: Always a showman Dr. Zahi Hawass the renowned Egyptian archaeologist who brought the discoveries of King Tut into our living rooms through his perceptive documentaries and breathed new life on the antiquities of the underworld was centre stage in a hotel ballroom declaring his love of Egypt when I finally met him in Toronto.
CALIFORNIA DREAMINGWhat a State
21 MAY 2013: Things I can’t live without – Hollywood movies, sun, sand and more Hollywood movies. California’s proven itself in the past on all three but can it pass the smell test these days? Is it still all that dreamy?
HIGH NOTESPortugal kicks it up a notch
22 APR 2013: If the king of “Bam!” and “Kick it up a notch” Emeril Lagasse, the celebrity chef whose Mom is Portuguese, is any indication of the firecracker nature of the Portuguese, well I figured that’s as good an intro to Portugal as I needed.
IN THE MOODLights on with Transat Canada
16 APR 2013: Jet lag sufferers listen up. The next time your client frowns at a European long haul because they can’t take the associated post-grogginess with all its prerequisite symptoms like super sleepiness for starters, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
CELEBRATIONS 2013Everything is happening in Britain
18 MAR 2013: This is a busy year in the UK . There's lots to do and lot's to plan for - in fact just a perfect year to scoot across the pond. We first ran this in January this year - but It's well worth a reminder.
GRAND ON THE GRAND STRANDSand, sea and greens at Myrtle Beach
05 MAR 2013: With March break just around the corner it definitely means one thing: last minute bookings to those sun swept shores. Over the weekend as thousands poured into the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to get the low down on golf favourites at the Toronto Golf and Travel Show, the folks from Myrtle Beach went one better than everyone else.
NONE OF IT IN NUNAVUTOne of a kind
27 FEB 2013: You won’t find reindeer and you can’t hunt narwhal for sport - there’s none of it in Nunavut as a CTC advertising campaign once conveyed. Though you will find three regions and as Colleen Dupuis, CEO of Nunavut Tourism quips, “We’re one of a kind.”
MASSACHUSETTS SMARTSNo time for boredom in the Bay State
24 FEB 2013: Boston has produced more Nobel Prize winners than any place else on the planet. It helps that “America’s Walking City” is home turf to Ivy League campuses like MIT and Harvard. Even pop culture has representation, Hollywood star Tommy Lee Jones (Oscar nominated for Lincoln), and screenwriter Chris Terrio (best writer Oscar nominee for Argo) hail from Harvard.
PUNTA CANA SPLASHRiu and more Riu
06 FEB 2013: “Fly me to the moon,” crooned Colin Hunter via a CD playing inside this Sunwing aircraft. The founding president, CEO and owner of Sunwing Airlines and Sunwing Vacations helps you take off in style as the cabin crew offers glasses of bubbly and makes everyone feel like a star.
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