Tourism

Cobblestone Tours offers new way to cruise capital in winter — minus the frostbite

Leave it to a former paramedic to help resuscitate the local tourism sector. Étienne LeBlanc-Cameron, together with business...

Fairmont Château Laurier gets first female general manager

"To me, it’s the most beautiful, iconic hotel in Canada," new boss Geneviève Dumas says.

T.O.-based Pivot Airlines to launch Waterloo-Ottawa route next February

Airline says it chose Waterloo as its southern Ontario base rather than Toronto because smaller terminals “offer a better, more seamless and hassle-free alternative for regional travel.”

Ottawa’s hotel bounceback to lag behind recoveries in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal: report

CBRE is projecting Ottawa’s average hotel occupancy rate to rise to 48 per cent next year, up from 30 per cent in 2020 and a forecasted 34 per cent in 2021.

Meet Trina Mather-Simard, the entrepreneur behind Ottawa’s latest Indigenous tourism attraction

For more than 20 years, Trina Mather-Simard has been a trailblazer in the Indigenous tourism industry. Her company,...

Airport’s outlook ‘a lot brighter’ after recent passenger gains, official says

After being at less than 10 per cent of pre-COVID levels earlier in the year, passenger volumes at YOW have climbed to within 50 per cent of their 2019 totals.

Air Canada’s new Ottawa-Toronto Island route to take flight this month

It’s the first time in 15 years that the carrier will offer service between the nation’s capital and the Toronto Island airport.

Summer tourism surge convinces Lord Elgin to reopen

After being closed for more than 18 months as the pandemic all but wiped out tourist traffic for most of 2020 and into 2021, the family-owned downtown hotel will start welcoming guests on Oct. 1. 

Ottawa’s travel ‘savant’ sells downtown agency to U.S.-based firm

Scott McCord's business has been the go-to agency for Parliament Hill staffers, civil servants and journalists in the nation’s capital for 22 years.

Visit Ottawa, munch some tail?

Cheeky new tourism campaign touts BeaverTails and other local attractions as it stokes city's friendly rivalry with Toronto and Montreal.

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