Just an hour away from Tokyo by bullet train lies a charming mountain town you've probably never heard of. But Karuizawa, a popular summer home location for Tokyo residents looking to escape the city heat, welcomes approximately eight million visitors per year, according to Mari Kashiwagi, secretary of the Karuizawa Tourist Association. For several summers in the 1970s, John Lennon and his family were among those visitors, regularly staying at the Mampei Hotel…
Early Tuesday morning local time, an earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in the northeast of Japan. The 7.4 magnitude earthquake also shook buildings in Tokyo, where PAX is on location for the Visit Japan Project 2016, but there was no danger in Japan's capital.
Following that unexpected wake-up call, we explored the Asakusa area…
Located just south of the Fraser River, Richmond is literally minutes from Vancouver by car or transit. The city's large Asian community (65 per cent of residents) makes it an important hub of Asian culture in the Lower Mainland.
It's also a culturally significant site of Metro Vancouver's maritime history, with National Historic Sites at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery and Britannia Shipyards.
Read the story in the S-Magazine Winter 2017 digital issue
Contiki Holidays Canada welcomed 45 agents to a launch party for the new 2017-18 itineraries last night in Vancouver. With 21 new itineraries in Europe and five in Asia, there was plenty to talk about.
"Contiki Canada didn't want to do just a Europe launch,†Sheralyn Berry, director of sales, told PAX. "Asia and Latin America are becoming hotspots.â€
The new Asia itineraries take Contiki into India for the first time in 40 years, and adds Singapore as a new destination. The company has also added 600 seats for its popular Thai Island Hopper itineraries…
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Air Canada welcomed 300 members of the travel trade, partners and VIPs to the Vancouver Art Gallery last week to celebrate the launch of the first non-stop service from Vancouver to Delhi, commencing Oct. 20. The airline will offer three times weekly service between the two cities through April 8 on its Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
Representatives of the Monaco Government Tourist and Convention Authority, in association with Atout France, hosted 40 travel professionals for dinner at the Shangri-La Hotel in Vancouver last week on the final stop of their Canadian roadshow. It was the first time the world's second-smallest country (after Vatican City) has hosted a travel trade event in the city…
Commonly known as "North Van†– and making up a large part of "the North Shore†along with West Vancouver – North Vancouver actually includes two distinct municipalities: the City of North Vancouver and the District of North Vancouver…
"Those poor Salzburg people – they never get to visit Salzburg for the first time in their lives.â€
Arnulf Gressel relayed this lament from his grandfather over lunch last week, speaking to travel professionals at the annual Discover Austria B2B tourism showcase in Vancouver…
Royal Scenic, together with partners at the Japan National Tourism Organization and Air Canada, welcomed 125 agents to a dinner event in Vancouver last week to learn more about the company's Japan packages…