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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
New OMCA President Starts Monday
OMCA
Vince Accardi, OMCA’s new President, is proud to be officially starting his new position at OMCA on Monday, April 19th. Vince will take the time to introduce himself to members in the coming weeks. If you wish to get in touch with him directly, he can be reached at vince@omca.com. The association is looking forward to continuing its fight to support its members with Vince’s help and expertise. Let’s give him a warm OMCA welcome!
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
TIAC seeks Canadian quarantine program replacement and vaccine passports
Travel Pulse
Canada’s quarantine plan is outdated and needs to be replaced with contact tracing and rapid testing, says the head of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada.
Speaking on a Zoom call last Friday with Destination Canada, TIAC president and CEO Beth Potter said there are better ways to handle the pandemic than Canada’s current plan, which requires a 14-day quarantine for those coming into the country and an expensive hotel stay of up to three days for anyone arriving by air.
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BY ANY OTHER NAME: Vaccination passports may be on the way, but will Canadians be eligible
Travel Industry Today
"Vaccination Passports" — loaded words these days. Viewed by some as a threat to “freedoms” by others as the arrival of freedom to travel. Much of the chatter is fraught with distortion, misconception and wishful thinking. Many experts in the field agree that some of the controversy is caused by the name itself — the document in question is in fact a health certificate — not much different than existing health certificates that prove one has had the required shots before travelling to certain countries. Work continues on a global solution, but current Canadian protocols may make us ineligible.
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Ontario extends renewal deadlines for carrier products
Truck News
Ontario is reinstating renewal requirements for certain carrier products, the Ministry of Transportation announced.
To ensure everyone has a fair amount of time to renew, the province has extended the renewal deadlines that would have expired on or after March 1, 2020 until June 1, 2021 for commercial vehicle operators registration (CVOR), annual and semi-annual vehicle inspections and oversize/overweight annual permits.
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WHERE DO YOU RATE?: Canada's friendliest cities and towns
Travel Industry Today
Move over, Montreal. Too bad, Toronto. Catch ya later, Calgary. Canada’s friendliest cities and towns, at least according to Expedia.ca clients, are not the big boys; rather it’s smaller and more intimate places where a visitor is just a little more likely to experience a random of act friendliness or get an overall sense of feel-good energy.
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What to expect at hotels as travel returns
Condé Nast Traveler
The good news is that summer 2021 is on track to feel very different from summer 2020. If the vaccine roll out continues to be successful, Americans should be safe to travel and gather with certain precautions. With this in mind, hotels across the country are gearing up for what is expected to be a phenomenally busy season.
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Charges laid in school bus safety campaign
North Bay Nugget
Five vehicle owners and one driver have been charged with failure to stop for a school bus with flashing lights during a targeted traffic enforcement campaign in March.
North Bay police launched the campaign through the month, targeting drivers who did not stop for school buses, who violated speed limits or did not obey traffic lights in community safety zones.
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Room Service Concert Series at Ottawa hotels postponed as Ontario implements stay-at-home order
CTV News
Ontario's stay-at-home order has forced organizers to pull the plug on the Room Service Concert Series in Ottawa hotel rooms.
RBC Ottawa Bluesfest and Ottawa Tourism teamed up to offer the concert series at 20 participating Ottawa hotels. Anyone staying at one of the 20 participating hotels on eight nights in April would have access to an exclusive concert or comedy show on the television in their room.
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Tourism spending in Canada dropped by almost 50 per cent in 2020
Trail Daily Times
Tourism spending nearly halved in 2020 compared to the previous year, dropping 48.1 per cent compared to 2019.
This figure appears in a new report from Statistics Canada detailing the effects on the tourism sector, described among the “hardest hit sectors of the economy” in 2020 due to physical distancing measures designed to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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U.S. taxi services see business boost helping Canadians avoid hotel quarantine
CBC News
Airport transport service, Buffalo Limousine, lost about 70 per cent of its business during COVID-19 pandemic. But the company said its luck changed recently, thanks to Canadian snowbirds returning from U.S. sunbelt states who want to avoid Canada's hotel quarantine requirement.
"This is a huge, huge shot in the arm for us, this Canadian snowbird travel," said Carla Boccio, owner of Buffalo Limousine. "It's a godsend."
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