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Voluntourism: It’s All About Seeing the World While You Save It

Posted on 17. Apr, 2009 by BCAA.

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Vancouver Islander Jordie Robinson spent two weeks this summer tending vegetables and pulling weeds on the far side of the Coast range in Nelson, B.C. In return for six hours a day of labour and a $40 annual membership in World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (wwoof), the 23-year-old enjoyed room and board at his host [...]

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The Boomer Effect

Posted on 25. Mar, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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The baby-boomer generation, which includes all those people born between 1946 and 1964, have changed business in North America at each stage of their development: diaper services, Barbie dolls, Rolling Stone magazine, relaxed-fit jeans, SUVS. Wherever the boomers go, the money follows. Now it’s the travel industry’s turn to feel the boom. Over the next [...]

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Top Travel Destinations for 2009

Posted on 19. Jan, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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This is the time of year when travel publications and online travel guides release their lists of the top travel destinations for 2009. These media outlets do not predict the most popular travel spots in 2009, a compilation that would undoubtedly vary little from year to year. Instead, they attempt to shed light on fast-rising [...]

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Baseball’s Valhalla

Posted on 07. Jan, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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A few years ago my brother and I made a pilgrimage to Cooperstown, New York, to see what is arguably North American’s most famous sports shrine–the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It was early summer and we drove down from Toronto, a seven-hour, sun-baked trip through a rural landscape of green rolling hills, cornfields and [...]