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Destination Toronto Opens International Offices
2025/06/12

Destination Toronto announced the opening of international offices in the U.K. and Germany, advancing the city’s global tourism strategy and expanding its reach with international leisure and business travellers. Together, the U.K. and Germany delivered more than 220,000 visitors and more than $320M in direct spending to Toronto’s visitor economy in 2024. “Diversifying our international markets has always been a priority—but now it’s more critical than ever,” said Andrew Weir, president and CEO of Destination Toronto. “This is a pivotal moment for Canada on…
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Ontario Hard Rock Hotel Opens in Spring
2025/03/06

The Hard Rock Hotel London, Ontario, is nearing completion and is now accepting reservations. Located within the iconic 100 Kellogg Lane, the hotel is part of Canada’s largest indoor entertainment complex, including The Factory, and sits in the heart of London’s vibrant Old East Village. Just minutes from the Western Fair District and a short drive from downtown, the hotel is perfectly positioned in Canada’s only UNESCO City of Music, making it a must-visit entertainment destination. “The debut of…
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Marriott Launches Business Travel Tool
2024/07/25

Marriott International has unveiled a travel management platform called Business Access by Marriott Bonvoy. The online booking tool serves as a one-stop shop for small to medium-sized business travelers to compare, book, manage, and change Marriott Bonvoy hotel, flight, rail, and car rental reservations all within one integrated platform that supports compliance with their companies’ travel policies. The program includes additional features that satisfy business needs, such as access to live traveler data, real-time reporting, and expense management. Travelers…
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Canadian Corporate Travel Concerns
2023/08/24

New research from SAP Concur reveals the most pressing challenges facing Canadian business travellers today. Serving as an annual touchpoint to assess the realities of the business travel landscape, the survey uncovers how factors including economic inflation, job security, and safety concerns are impacting corporate travel. The survey polled 3,850 business travellers in 25 global markets which includes 250 respondents within Canada. The top Canadian findings include: Job Security Dependent on Business Travel Even as the logistics of business travel become…
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Business Travellers to See Higher Prices
2022/08/15

Global travel prices are predicted to continue to increase in the remaining months of 2022 and throughout 2023, according to the 2023 Global Business Travel Forecast, published by CWT, the B2B4E travel management platform, and the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the voice of the global business travel industry. Rising fuel prices, labour shortages, and inflationary pressures in raw material costs are the primary drivers of the expected price growth, according to the report, which uses anonymized data generated…
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Edmonton Partnership Boost Event Marketing
2022/02/14

Edmonton Destination Marketing Hotels (EDMH) and Explore Edmonton Corporation have formalized a partnership which creates a powerhouse in event attraction and marketing of the City of Edmonton. The two organizations signed a Memorandum of Understanding where EDMH will provide important marketing funds to Explore Edmonton to bolster marketing initiatives in the city’s tourism and hospitality sector. This is a key step as Edmonton looks to recover from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic. “While we’ve been working together for a…
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Egencia: When it comes to bleisure trips, your boss’ opinion matters
2018/03/22

One in five global business travellers skip leisure additions to business trips due to employer perception Egencia, a leading global travel management company, has announced findings from the Egencia 2018 Bleisure Trends study, uncovering the trends, behaviors and motivators behind bleisure travel, the practice of tacking on leisure portions to business trips. Polling 9,000 Egencia users across North America, Asia Pacific and Europe, the study illustrates that while bleisure travel is on the rise, employer perception, destination and proximity to the weekend all play into…
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InterContinental Toronto Centre relaunches Club InterContinental
2018/03/05

Newly renovated guest rooms and lounge offer a sophisticated hotel within a hotel Press release The InterContinental Toronto Centre has launched the newly renovated Club InterContinental. As the only hotel in Toronto attached to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, the InterContinental Toronto Centre’s Club InterContinental serves as a sophisticated “hotel within a hotel” for business and leisure travellers alike. “The renovation of Club InterContinental has been a very special project for the hotel,” says General Manager, Alexi Hakim. “It was important to provide…
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Egencia announces Top 100 Preferred Corporate Hotels
2018/01/18

Annual awards program recognizes top-performing hotels from around the world Egencia, a leading global travel management company, has announced this year’s winners of its Top 100 Preferred Corporate Hotel awards program. With more than 300,000 hotels available in the Egencia global marketplace, finalists were selected based on popularity, pricing, desirable amenities to corporate travellers, customer service and overall guest experience in 2017. All 100 honorees earned a 100 per cent customer service rating from the 62,000 total travellers they served.…
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