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1 week ago | openjaw.com | Charmaine Noronha

Il MareThe sun is casting an array of pink and purple hues as it makes its descent over a series of white pod-like structures that line the turquoise ocean in Curaçao. As my resort golf-cart driver, Shurendy Mariano, approaches the buildings, I embarrassingly ask what they are. “Your room,” he replies with slight surprise as we pop out of the cart. He opens the door to, indeed, a beautifully sleek, modern, futuristic bungalow plopped right on the sand.

1 week ago | openjaw.com | Martha Chapman

If knowledge is power, Royal Caribbean is making sure advisors are more powerful than ever. If there’s one thing that’s true in our industry, it’s that cruising is becoming more and more popular. Only a few years ago, it was a mere 5% of the leisure market in Canada, and is now estimated at a whopping 30%, according to Royal Caribbean’s Maria Gibson, Strategic Account Manager. So the choices are expanding and it’s getting more complicated to sort it all out – much less explain it to the client.

2 weeks ago | openjaw.com | Jennifer Bain

Air Canada will be the launch customer for the Airbus Airspace cabin on the A220 family of aircraft, and that means customers will be getting more overhead storage space. The A220 Airspace cabin’s XL bins, which should debut next March, will boost the overhead capacity of bags by more than 15%, which translates to roughly 19 more bags per plane. The announcement came 08APR during an Airbus media briefing at the Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in Hamburg, Germany.

2 weeks ago | openjaw.com | Martha Chapman

In an era where hotel chains are consistent but cookie-cutter, it’s refreshing to see a group of hotels which are defiantly independent. Not to mention devoted to their guests and, in some cases, quite quirky. That was what a select group of media learned on 01APR at the Sassafras Resto in Toronto’s tony Yorkville neighbourhood. For the first time since 2019, Small Luxury Hotels sent a trade mission to Canada to promote their array of extraordinary properties.

2 weeks ago | openjaw.com | Martha Chapman

Lining up to board our Air France flight from CDG to YYZ last week, the Canadian entrepreneur beside me did not mince her words. “No one in my circle of friends and family is buying anything American – and certainly not travelling there.”“I’m in Paris instead of Florida,” having switched out Florida’s palms for Paris’ charms, and she was delighted with her decision.