Caution remains the watchword for Canadian travellers. Still anxious after the global recession, insecurity plagues local travel sentiment. However, many international tourism markets are recovering their vigour, and although not fully returned to the economic sunlit uplands, they are well on the way there.

The sky’s the limit for this year’s GoMedia Canada Marketplace. Leading Canadian airline WestJet has just signed up to become a gold sponsor for 2010’s iteration of the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC)’s annual media shindig.

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You can’t stop progress, least of all in the social-media sphere. The Canadian tourism industry continues to grasp this new opportunity with both hands (as previously highlighted in CTC News).

It’s a bit early to break out the bunting, but March 2010 was another predominantly positive month, says the latest Tourism Snapshot just published by the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC)’s tags: CTC-Domestic, CTC-Global, domestic travel, economy, figures, marketing, markets, overnight visitors, passports, research, statistics, trends / travel trends

The tables are stacked, the chairs put away and the pop-up banners rolled up, and now the results are in from another Rendez-vous Canada (RVC).

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Bad luck, Boston; better luck next time, Washington, DC; and hard cheese, New York City.

To grab people’s attention, sometimes you’ve go to think big. Really big. Projecting a fun video of great Canadian travel experiences onto buildings in major global cities ticks that box—and then some.

There’s a great sense of anticipation within the Canadian tourism industry about the promising Chinese travel market.