In the middle of winter it wasn’t quite “Here Comes the Sun,” but a night organized by the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) and Eventia for events-industry leading lights in London, England, certainly br

Although we are still surrounded by winter fun, consumer minds are already turning to warmer times. The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC)’s new campaigns in our European core markets (France, Germany and the UK) are all designed to turn traveller attention to spending summer 2011 on these shores.

It’s not quite a full-blown winter of their discontent, but times are certainly tough in the UK. Buffeted by harsh winter weather (by their standards) and adjusting to new economic medicine prescribed to ward off a deep recession, austerity is the watchword.

It’s more than a “Misty Mountain Hop” for Canadian adventure in the UK when the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour comes to town.

The votes have been cast, the judges have sweated over the details and the verdicts are in.

If every picture tells a story, then readers of the January issue of Condé Nast Traveller magazine in the UK will be hearing some cracking tales of this country from January through December 2011.