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TWT: Canada’s Covid Veil Lifts, Biden Asks Airlines for Fee Transparency

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Editor’s note : This Week in Travel (TWT) is your essential guide to smoothing the road from here to there for your attendees and yourself. Canada Drops Last and All Covid Restrictions. Read More : Western Canada: Touring Indigenous Lands. Transport Canada is also removing existing travel requirements.

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What is Stopping International Attendees from Returning to U.S. Conferences?

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Experts from around the world share what impacts global travel California may be the ultimate playground, but the reasons people come from all over the world—or don’t in the numbers they did pre-pandemic in some cases—vary by region. What flights were in place, were expensive, partly because of Chinese travelers bidding up demand.

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4 Reasons to Take Your Groups to Walt Disney World Now

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After a year of Zoom and staying indoors, there is pent-up demand for travel, connection and meetings that goes beyond the boardroom—and there’s nowhere quite like Walt Disney World to hit all the marks with ease. Bleisure travel is HOT right now. See also : Travel Survey Reveals Secrets for Making “Bleisure” Work.

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Air Transat Returns to the Skies

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Canada’s third-largest airline, Air Transat, is once again flying after a six-month suspension of operations. The carrier suspended flights in February, after the government of Canada imposed strict new arrivals rules. Prior to grounding its flights in February, the airline was moving ahead with a proposed merger with Air Canada.

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TWT: Delta Pushes No-Fly List, Some Travel Advocates Push Back

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Just in time for the second season of CNN’s smash hit, “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,” the country has announced a relaxation of Covid restrictions. Bermuda has announced that as of March 7, unvaccinated travelers 12 or older will not be allowed into the country. There will also be no travel-related quarantine measures.

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Porter Airlines Adds Embraer E2s to Fleet

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The new aircraft has transcontinental range, allowing Porter to launch longer-range services to destinations across Canada, as well as the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. The airline says it intends to operate the E2s from Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax and Toronto Pearson International Airport. flyporter.com. flyporter.com.

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O(pen) Canada?

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In June, the government of Canada once again announced that the country’s strict anti-COVID-19 travel restrictions would extend at least until July 21. The announcement marks the 15 th such extension since restrictions were put in place in March 2020 – including a ban on non-essential travel with the US.