Wednesday January 29, 2020

Travelweek

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TRAVELWEEK

The Travelweek Group of Companies has been keeping travel agents up to date with the latest news for more than 40 years. Founded in 1973 as Canadian Travel Monthly, it quickly morphed into CTM Weekly Bulletin, then became Travelweek Bulletin and eventually Travelweek.

Today, in addition to the weekly printed publication, there is Travelweek Daily sent by e-mail, the French-language Profession Voyages, the monthly Travel Professional, our comprehensive website Travelweek.ca and Envoy Networks, a distribution and fulfillment company that specializes in providing the travel industry with custom marketing solutions.

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THE TEAM

Travelweek’s Editorial Team

Kathryn Folliott, Editor

About me in exactly 5 words:
Efficient to a fault

Favourite Travel Memory:
Meeting a reporter from the Toronto Sun on a press trip to Barbados and St. Lucia. Honeymooning with him in Florida five years later.

Favourite Place in the World:
Road trip, passenger seat, map on my lap

Dream Trip:
New Zealand, Russia, Eastern Europe, Nordic cruise, Chile

Why I love to travel:
The anticipation and the freedom

Cindy Sosroutomo, Deputy Editor

About me in exactly 5 words:
I’d rather be eating pizza

Favourite Travel Memory:
It’s either watching the wildebeest migration from a hot air balloon in Kenya or visiting the tanneries in Fes, Morocco

Favourite Place in the World:
Istanbul

Dream Trip:
Cross-Canada road trip

Why I love to travel:
For the people and the food!

Annie Cicvaric, Director of Business Development and Content Strategy

About me in exactly 5 words:
Catch me if you can!

Favourite Travel Memory:
Sleeping under the Arabian stars in a tent

Favourite Place in the World:
Too many to list

Dream Trip:
Egypt next – pyramids and camel riding in the desert

Why I love to travel:
Excitement, sense of adventure, and learning to keep an open mind

Ashima Dhingra, Business Development Manager

About me in exactly 5 words:
Thinking about my next trip.

Favourite Travel Memory:
Hiking Mount Kilimanjaro – I remember the night of the summit, with the high altitude I kept walking even slower and slower with multiple breaks, eventually it took me 6 hours to make it to the top. Despite having a severe headache, I remember being so happy not only to make it but to make it right before the sunrise. Afterwards, in the sunlight I also realized what a short distance I had covered in those 6 hours, it was a fun 2 hours sliding down the mountain.

Favourite Place in the World:
Japan – Friendliest people I have ever met when travelling.

Dream Trip:
Going on a gorilla safari in Rwanda.

Why I love to travel:
For the strangers that become the quickest friends on unexpected adventures.

Travelweek’s Production Team

Devin Kinasz, Publisher

About me in exactly 5 words:
Where can we go next?

Favourite Travel Memory:
Hiking with three young Vietnamese girls in the Northern Sapa region and them being deliriously funny and happy despite only having things like plastic water bottles and the clothes on their backs as possessions. Even though they had nothing by our standards, they were super generous with their sugar cane!

Favourite Place in the World:
Too hard to answer.

Dream Trip:
I want to go to Brazil for a least a month and explore the coastline.

Why I love to travel:
Because it has expanded my horizons and seriously impacted the way I view life. In a good way.

Zara Martinez, Digital Product Specialist

About me in exactly 5 words:
The IT gal to summon!

Favourite Travel Memory:
Niagara Falls trip during the winter time. There’s something about a fairly frozen falls view that’s magical during winter.

Favourite Place in the World:
Venice, Italy

Dream Trip:
A trip to the Maldives would be nice.

Why I love to travel:
I think it’s good to see what’s out there. You might miss something if you don’t stray away from the home base every once in a while.

Andrew Campbell, Graphic Designer

About me in exactly 5 words:
Reality is probably a hologram

Favourite Travel Memory:
Realizing Berlin is pretty much a 3 story human-made canyon city, loving every minute of it.

Favourite Place in the World:
The void between worlds. Also Berlin and Toronto.

Dream Trip:
Another planet with a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere, but in the meantime Iceland, Scotland, and Sweden.

Why I love to travel:
Experiencing different cities takes on design, fashion, art, literature, coffee, food and transit.

Jason Gouveia, Digital Production Manager

About me in exactly 5 words:
Eventually, everything will be connected

Favourite Travel Memory:
Sitting on a cliff, NYE 1999 Spaghetti Beach, Goa

Favourite Place in the World:
Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City

Dream Trip:
All electric vehicle – Cannonball Run style race – around Africa

Why I love to travel:
Because Rakim told me that “It ain’t where you’re from/it’s where you’re at.”

Kate Ivchenko, Content Manager

About me in exactly 5 words:
Energetic, verantwortlich, доброзичлива, creative, drôle

Favourite Travel Memory:
A trip around Europe visiting Prague, Rotenburg, Paris, Munich, Vienna in one week!

Favourite Place in the World:
Kiev – Ukraine

Dream Trip:
London – England! Drinking tea at 5pm with Benedict Cumberbatch and Queen Elizabeth II.

Why I love to travel:
Travelling opens your mind. It helps you explore new things – often creating a greater appreciation for what you already have. What could be better than experiencing how other cultures live: to hear their language, use different currencies and commerce as well as travel to places you have never been before? Booking air tickets gives a true sense of euphoria that is hard to describe except to say there are too many places in the world to be limited to one city to define one’s life.

Serean Bechara, Content Marketing Assistant

About me in exactly 5 words:
Artist. Creative Marketer. Activist. Traveler. Spaghetti Lover.

Favourite Travel Memory:
Backpacking in Japan and hiking up a mountain in Fukuoka to see the world’s largest Nirvana Buddha.

Favourite Place in the World:
Beirut, Lebanon

Dream Trip:
Backpacking through Europe and seeing the gorgeous art and architecture in Italy, Spain, and Greece.

Why I love to travel:
I love immersing myself in new cultures and meeting new people. I find the customs and food to be so fascinating and it can teach you a lot about how to better understand people and history.

Taylor Waver, Sales and Marketing Coordinator

About me in exactly 5 words:
Adventure, culture, and knowledge seeker

Favourite Travel Memory:
Traveling Italy and Greece with my friends and ending the trip in Egypt. We were on a Nile River cruise and we brought our blankets to the top deck and slept under the stars. A memory I will never forget. Endless writing material ensued…

Favourite Place in the World:
Amsterdam, Netherlands. I used to live there and became a Dutch citizen. Hopefully will be living on a houseboat in the near future…

Dream Trip:
South East Asia in its entirety. With Anthony Bourdain as my spirit guide and my travel partner to accompany me on all the crazy things I want to do!

Why I love to travel:
The vast and life-changing experiences, discoveries, relationships, (and food), that I come to notice when I travel bring me to a place like no other. Who wouldn’t always want to travel somewhere new (or somewhere old)? You create a special bond with people and places that stay with you for the rest of your life. The only thing constant in traveling is that it’s always changing. And I love that.

Administration

Marie Mercado, Accounting Clerk

About me in exactly 5 words:
I love keeping myself busy

Favourite Travel Memory:
When we went for a long drive from Florida to Texas, we stopped by some place for gas and food. We saw restaurants and fast food stands nearby the gas station but all the menu listings seemed to be exotic, (like fried frog legs, grilled alligator tail, frog sandwich, etc.), then we noticed that the place had a big sign that said “Frog City”. We ended up ordering pizza.

Favourite Place in the World:
Philippines

Dream Trip:
To travel around the world

Why I love to travel:
To have sometime to relax, to see beautiful and historical places and to learn other cultures