Platinum Sponsors at the 2011 Conference
AIR MILES® REWARD PROGRAM
www.airmiles.ca
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The AIR MILES® Reward Program is a unique shopping rewards program that enables Canadians to earn AIR MILES® Reward Miles by making everyday purchases at a variety of participating Sponsors. There is no cost to join the program.
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AIR MILES® offers an ever-increasing variety of easily attainable ways to enjoy special moments, escapes and important personal activities by rewarding the Collector for being a loyal shopper at an ever-increasing number of Sponsors.
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We provide expert guidance on all aspects of loyalty program management, including organizational structure, process design, marketing, customer care, rewards administration and finance. Visit our corporate website at www.loyalty.com.
RBC INSURANCE
www.rbcinsurance.com
RBC Insurance, through its operating entities, including RBC Insurance Company of Canada, Assured Assistance Inc., and RBC U.S. Insurance Services Inc., provides a wide range of travel, life, health, home, auto, retirement and reinsurance products, as well as creditor and business insurance services to more than five million North American customers.
RBC Insurance is the leading provider of travel insurance and emergency assistance services in Canada and offers travel insurance solutions in the U.S. Its travel insurance operations draw on more than 45 years of professional experience and provide a wide range of products and services through a network of over 3,000 travel agencies, as well as over the Internet, through retail insurance branches and bank channels, to more than three million individual and corporate customers annually.
Silver Sponsors
PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA
www.travelhealth.gc.ca
The Public Health Agency of Canada`s Travel Health Division monitors, verifies, produces and disseminates international travel health information and recommendations in order to protect the health of the Canadian population and to support the health professionals who care for them.
RENAISSANCE TORONTO DOWNTOWN HOTEL
www.renaissancehotels.com
Renaissance® Hotels & Resorts - part of the Marriott Family of Brands - provides a refreshing experience with a distinctive design. With only three in Canada, the four diamond, Renaissance Toronto Downtown Hotel is the world's only hotel located in a major league sports and entertainment venue.
Delight your senses and inspire your imagination - whether you are travelling for business or leisure make us your home base when traveling to Toronto! Situated in downtown Toronto at the Rogers Centre, home to the Toronto Blue Jays, the Renaissance Toronto Downtown Hotel is adjacent to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and CN Tower.
The Hotel is walking distance from Union Station, and steps away from the financial and entertainment districts. We are a 5-minute drive from the Toronto Island Airport and 30-minute drive from Lester B. Pearson International Airport.
SABRE
www.sabretravelnetwork.com
SABRE TRAVEL NETWORK, a Sabre Holdings company, provides access to the world's leading global distribution system (GDS) enabling agents at more than 53,000 agency locations worldwide to be travel experts.
The Sabre GDS, the first system to connect the buyers and sellers of travel, today includes more than 400 airlines, approximately 60,000 hotels, 37 car rental companies, nine cruise lines, 35 railroads and 220 tour operators. A key brand of Sabre Travel Network includes GetThere, the leading Web-based corporate travel reservation technology.
TEMPLE & TEMPLE TOURS - PARTY TOUR SPECIALISTS
www.tnt-tours.com
Temple and Temple – "TNT" is named after identical twin brothers, John and David Temple. They entered into the business as tour guides when they were university students, conducting overnight educational field trips for school groups. They loved it so much that they decided to make it a full-time profession when they graduated.
We are a Specific Interest Tour Company that organizes group tours for 4 different types of clientele: Educational Tours for school groups; International In-bound Clientele for adult English language students; College/University Student Tours; Corporate Leisure Tours consisting of weekend getaways for companies.
TRANSAT A.T. (RT/TS)
www.transat.com
Transat A.T. Inc. is an integrated international tour operator with more than 60 destination countries and that distributes products in over 50 countries.
A holiday travel specialist, Transat operates mainly in Canada and Europe, as well as in the Caribbean, Mexico and the Mediterranean Basin. Montreal-based Transat is also active in air transportation, destination services and distribution.
Nolitours and Transat Holidays
Nolitours offers a wide variety of competitively priced holiday packages for sun destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Cuba, and Central and South America. Transat Holidays provides its customers with the full range of holiday products. During the winter season, Transat Holidays focuses on sun vacations, offering more than 175 hotels, mainly in the Caribbean, Mexico and Cuba; in summer, it offers an impressive array of flights, packages and tours to some 30 European destinations. Transat Holidays also offers a year-round selection of more than 150 cruises.
Transat Discoveries
Transat Discoveries offers a full range of escorted and independent tours to a wide array of exotic and long-haul destinations all around the world, including in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. The brochure features pre-packaged, guided tours in Thailand, Vietnam, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and several Eastern European countries.
Transat Discoveries specializes in customization and can also tailor make any brochure product as well as numerous other destinations not featured in the brochure to fit the individual requests of travellers.
Transat Distribution Canada
Transat Distribution Canada, under the Marlin Travel banner is Canada's leading retail distributor, of holiday travel, with approximately 450 outlets.
About Jonview Canada
Jonview Canada is the country's leading incoming tour operator. Its product line includes escorted tours, independent tours combining air, rail and automobile, sports and adventure-tourism packages and customized group tours, all distributed in some 50 countries.
About Handlex
Handlex provides airport ground services, including passenger reception and check-in, baggage- and cargo-handling, aircraft cleaning and ramp services, at Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver international airports. With 1,200 employees, Handlex is a partner of some 20 airlines in Canada.
VoX International
www.voxtm.ca
A LEADER IN MARKET COMMUNICATIONS
VoX is a Canadian-owned sales, marketing and public relations services provider led by a team of high profile, knowledgeable executives, each with a proven track record in their field of expertise.
Recognized as a marketplace leader, VoX offers a wide range of support within the North American hospitality and tourism sectors. Their passion for providing personal, innovative, results driven initiatives in a timely and cost-efficient manner are key factors driving the company's reputation for success.
Bronze Sponsors
ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR
www.enterpriserentalcar.ca
More than 350 locations across Canada, including 19 offices serving airports and a total fleet size of 30,000 vehicles.
MERIT TRAVEL GROUP
www.merit.ca
Merit Travel Group is a privately held, owner-managed company established in 1991 by its current shareholders, Michael Merrithew and Louise de Grandpré. Since 1991, Merit has grown to become the largest independent specialty travel company in Canada. More than 500 Merit travel professionals located at more than 50 offices across the country provide advice and services to more than 500,000 travellers every year.
Our division's include: MeritBiz, Merit Loyalty, Exclusive Tours and Merit Leisure Group which is comprised of a number of leading retail brands including Merit Vacations, Travel CUTS/ Voyages Campus, Adventure Travel Company, Merit Ski & Golf Vacations and Merit Longstay Program.
NATIONAL CAR RENTAL
www.nationalcar.ca
One of the nation's largest rental car companies serving the most popular domestic and international travel destinations by providing quality vehicles and service to business, and leisure customers.
SRI LANKAN AIRLINES (RT)
www.srilankanca.com
SriLankan Airlines, the National Airline of Sri Lanka, is an award winning carrier with a firm reputation as a global leader in service, comfort, safety, reliability, and punctuality. Launched in 1979, SriLankan is currently expanding and further diversifying its wide range of products and services in order to drive the country's ongoing boom in tourism and economic development.
The airline's hub is located at Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo, providing convenient connections to its global route network of 52 destinations in 33 countries in Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Far East, North America and Australia. |