|
Trends
- Feb 1, 2007
________________________________________
Reasons
to trust ATCO Travel -
 ATCO
Travel is the winner of the ACTA Atlas Award
“Travel Agency of the Year” for
Alberta
This
award recognizes "a travel agency whose
business development has been spectacular and
innovative and whose outstanding influence and
activity have advanced the status of the travel
agency industry".
L to R: David McCaig, Vaughan
Payne, Colleen Gannon
Thank
you to all of our customers for your support
in helping us to obtain this award!
Also,
a big thanks to our wonderful staff who have
also played a part in this win.
Here
are just a few of our ATCO Travel staff members
who have helped to make this happen: The
ATCO Travel award winners for 2006 for outstanding
service and performance.
R.D
Southern award winner: 25 yrs of service
|
|
Gwen
Fox
Calgary
L
to R: Nancy Southern, Gwen Fox, Michael
Shaw
|
2006
"President Award" winners
|
|
|
| |
Sarah
Joseph
Fort McMurray |
2006
"Star Award" winners
|
|
|
|
Sylvia
Barraclough
Vancouver
|
Linda
Booth
Calgary |
Sheri
Cullum
Edmonton |
|
|
|
|
| Heidi
Henneberger
Calgary |
Steve
Lozza
Calgary |
Tina
Solomon
Calgary |
2006
"Sky Award" winners
|
|
|
|
| |
Norm
Payne
Ottawa |
Diane
Quane
Ottawa |
________________________________________
ATCO
Travel Appointment notice
 On
January 8th, 2007 ATCO Travel welcomed Karen
Willsteed to the ATCO Travel Account
Management team.
Karen
has 20 years of travel experience and was most
recently Business Manager with HRG North America
(formerly BTI Canada). Karen has been developing
highly effective corporate travel programs for
her clientele since June 2004 and prior to that
she was Operations Manager responsible for BTI’s
offices in Calgary and Edmonton. Karen has a
very strong background on the operations side
of the business and has worked as a travel counsellor,
training instructor, supervisor and branch manager
prior to joining BTI Canada in 1997.
We
are very excited to have Karen on our team and
know that her strong communication and analytical
skills along with her reputation for relationship
building will be highly valued at ATCO Travel.
Please join us in welcoming Karen Willsteed
as she settles into her new role.
______________________________________
Air
Canada Toronto Terminal 2 closing (effective
Jan 30, 2007)
Effective
January 30, 2007 all of Air Canada's operations
in Toronto will be consolidated to Terminal
1, and as a result Terminal 2 will be
closing.
If
customers departed for the US prior to January
30, they should be aware of the following:
*
Vehicles parked in the T2 parking garage will
remain there until midnight Feb. 6. 2007. At
that time, Abrams towing will begin relocating
vehicles to Terminal 1 parking garage.
*
A section of level 5 in the T1 garage will be
blocked off for relocated vehicles. Customers
with vehicles that have been relocated will
be charged normal parking fee, but not charged
for the towing costs. There will be signage
in T1
advising customers where to proceed for their
cars.
Please
note that the GTAA shuttle bus will continue
to operate from Toronto's T1 to YYZ T2 up to
Feb. 06, for those customers who have parked
their cars in T2 (prior to towing commencing).
The bus will be available at post C on T1's
arrival level. There will not be a set schedule,
but instead the bus will operate based on demand.
GTAA has advised that the maximum wait should
be no more than 10 minutes.
______________________________________
UPGRADES
TO NEXUS PROGRAM ADDS MORE SPEED TO BORDER CROSSINGS
The
NEXUS program, operated jointly by the U.S.
and Canadian border services, will be upgraded
in 2007. It will be expanded to all land, marine
and air ports of entry.
This
is an improvement from previous CanPass and
PACE programs, in that it operates with the
agreement and involvement of both the U.S. and
Canada border services. As such, the same card
applies to crossings at both sides of the border.
It allows border crossers to use special "fast"
lanes at border crossings and in airports.
Together
with a passport, the NEXUS card will fulfill
the requirements of the Western Hemisphere Travel
Initiative as an approved alternative travel
document. The requirement for cross-border passports
came into effect for air travellers on Jan.
23, 2007.
- Canadian Tourism Commission
|
