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Happy Holidays! OMCA would like to take a minute to say thank you to all of our wonderful members, partners, and other industry professionals for a great 2021. We hope you enjoy a wonderful holiday season and we look forward to creating a bigger and better 2022 with you.
As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the OMCA Report a look at the most accessed articles from 2021. Our regular publication will resume Friday, Jan. 7, 2021.
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20. What you need to know about Canada's new border travel restrictions
Forbes
“Now is not the time to travel,” says the Canadian government as it introduces some of the strictest COVID-19 travel restrictions in the world.
Having recently announced new strict mandatory COVID-19 testing for all travellers entering Canada by air, the Canadian government is now introducing mandatory testing at all land borders.
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19. Stop calling it a 'vaccine passport'!
Travel Industry Today
The head of G Adventures is urging travel counsellors and people in the trade to stop using the term “vaccine passport.” Bruce Poon Tip says the generic term for a document that shows official two-dose status of having received the COVID-19 vaccine is simply a political term that does a disservice to promoting travel at time when many people need encouragement to do so.
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18. Ontario implements provincewide emergency brake
Government of Ontario
The Ontario government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health and other health experts, is imposing a provincewide emergency brake as a result of an alarming surge in case numbers and COVID-19 hospitalizations across the province. The provincewide emergency brake will be effective Saturday, April 3, 2021, at 12:01 a.m. and the government intends to keep this in place for at least four weeks.
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17. Greyhound Canada to cut all bus routes, end operations
Global News
Greyhound Canada is permanently cutting all bus routes across the country, shutting down the intercity bus carrier’s operations in Canada after nearly a century of service.
The motor coach company says its remaining routes in Ontario and Quebec will cease permanently on Thursday.
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16. 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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Saskatchewan is one big, beautiful place. You will find something that most people could use a bit more of – peace and quiet. Wherever you travel in Saskatchewan, nature is never far away. Even at the centre of Saskatchewan’s major cities, Regina and Saskatoon, you are only minutes away from impressive landscapes and wide-open spaces.
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15. COVID's toll on travel workers
Travel Weekly
It’s no secret that travel and tourism has been among the sectors hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. Travel Association estimates that more than 4 million travel jobs were lost in the U.S. alone in 2020, while the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) predicted that, globally, the number of lost jobs could surpass more than 170 million if barriers to global travel remain in place.
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14. Vaccine passports are coming. Here's why they're controversial
Fast Company
Vaccine passports — proof that you’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 — are at this point an inevitability. Countries including Seychelles, Cyprus, Georgia, Romania, Poland, Iceland, and Estonia will require travellers to have a COVID-19 vaccination to enter. Now, lots of tech companies are working on building apps that certify a traveler is vaccinated. But there are a few problems with vaccine passports, and the World Health Organization has voiced its distaste for the concept.
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13. Building a coast-to-coast national bus transportation network
NetNewsLedger
The COVID-19 Pandemic has hammered the transportation sector. Faced with massive declines in ridership, increased costs for doing business including insurance, bus cleaning, PPE, to name a few, a coalition of family owned bus transportation companies has formed.
The Wilson’s Group, Pacific Western Group of Companies, Kasper Transportation and Coach Atlantic Maritime Bus have formed Coast to Coast Bus Coalition, with a vision of working toward the creation of a new national inter community bus transportation network with the bus transportation industry working in coalition with each other.
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12. Unprecedented job vacancies in tourism
Tourism HR Canada
Statistics Canada has just released its job vacancy rates data for the month of September. The number of vacancies in the accommodation and food services industry was truly unprecedented.
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11. Response to Grey Hound Canada shut down
OMCA
“Today’s announcement that Greyhound Canada is ending operations is a major blow to Canada’s ability to connect people and communities. It highlights the need for specific government support for private motor coach providers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic” stated Vince Accardi, President of Motor Coach Canada and the Ontario Motor Coach Association.
Countries around the world are safeguarding their ability to connect residence and communities by providing specific economic relief for transportation service providers. Last week the U.S. Department of Treasury release the details of their Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services (CERTS) Grant Program. The $2 billion program will provide grants to eligible motorcoach companies and other transportation service providers that have experienced annual revenue losses of 25 percent or more as result of COVID-19.
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