Destination Articles

• Always Cool

  By Lisa Kopochinski

  April 23, 2013

  Actor Bruce Wills said it best in Die Hard: With a Vengeance: “I had no idea this much fun!” More Americans and international meeting overing this, too, as they increasingly book events in the United Anorthern locales. With a population of 23.1 million, eastern cludes Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Edward Island, is home to 70 percent of Canadian residents.

• White Gloves & Wranglers

  By Nikki Gloudeman

  September 25, 2012

  Alberta’s sublime natural resources are vividly captured in wide angles and aerial shots. Witness Travel Alberta’s recent video campaign, featuring footage of the ice-capped Canadian Rockies, a bright yellow canola field, fly fishers on a turquoise-blue lake and horses stampeding across open plains, punctuated with acoustic guitar-backed crooning as achingly poignant as the natural vistas featured.

• Western Canada 4x4

  By Chris McBeath

  June 27, 2012

  From grizzly bears on the west coast to polar bears on the shores of Hudson Bay, Canada’s four westernmost provinces, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, offer meeting professionals extraordinary variety. Within these provinces are large cities whose names are well known, including Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg. There are also smaller cities, that are equally attractive for their meeting potential. And there’s the landscape. A magnificent terrain stretching across nearly 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers), it contains ancient rain forest and desert canyons, carves through towering glacial mountains and shimmers with vast prairies of wheat and mustard.

• A Colorful Cultural Quilt

  By Steve Winston

  May 30, 2012

  Eastern Canada is technically just half of one country, but it contains enough cultures, traditions, lifestyles and geographic features to comprise multiple countries. Meeting planners are finding that there’s also an advanced meeting infrastructure, superb hotels and restaurants, and diverse recreational opportunities.

• Peak Experience

  By Nikki Gloudeman

  December 30, 2011

  Talk about a sense of arrival: Book a meeting in the Rocky Mountains, and your attendees will be greeted with the sight of natural wonders shaped over the course of millions of years, soaring thousands of feet into the sky. They will have access to ample winding trails, snowy crests and wildlife. They will be able to ski, bike, hike—pretty much any outdoor pursuit imaginable.

• Snapshot: Delicious Vancouver

  By Christine Loomis

  October 31, 2011

  Vancouver, soaring glass towers and urban-chic neighborhoods included, is informed as much by abundant nature and outdoor adventure as by city sophistication. Few cosmopolitan areas weave together these disparate influences as seamlessly as this western Canadian hub, its relatively young population as at home in trendy shops as in kayaks.

  From miles of shoreline and beaches to gardens and groves of giant trees in 1,000-acre Stanley Park, to say nothing of near wraparound views of water and mountains, nature in British Columbia’s largest city is rarely out of sight. Yet to pin Vancouver only to its natural attributes is to miss the bounty of what humans have created. Arts and culture deeply rooted in First Nations traditions, as well as in Asian and European influences, present visitors with a mélange of rich, colorful and, perhaps most of all, tasty possibilities.