Source: Trtavel Weekly

tatistics Canada has released its cross-border travel data for May 2026.
Time will tell if the latest numbers indicate a real start to a recovery, or a blip, given that May numbers include Victoria Day long weekend travel.
The takeaway: the increase in overall return trips from the U.S. in May 2026 marked both the second consecutive month of year-over-year increases, and the second increase since December 2024.
Canadian-resident return trips by air from the U.S. were down, by 5.5%. But return trips by car were up, by 15.1%, and that fuelled a 9.5% YOY increase in overall Canadian resident return trips from the U.S. in May 2026, for a total of 1.9 million.

Source: CBC News

Utilities have increasingly been exploring ways to reduce wildfire risk around power infrastructure as Alberta’s wildfire seasons become more destructive. Roughly 10 per cent of wildfires in Alberta are linked to utility infrastructure, according to AltaLink.
ATCO Electric said it ran its AI camera pilot project between July 2024 and February 2026, near Whitecourt, Swan Hills and Slave Lake, Alta.

The company said one camera detected a wildfire start last June. Crews got to the scene within 30 minutes of the ignition and ATCO said the fire was extinguished within an hour.

Source: Travel Press

Porter Airlines is adding another destination to its sun network with service to Providenciales (PLS), Turks and Caicos. The new non-stop flights are available from Toronto Pearson (YYZ), five times weekly, beginning Nov. 6, and Ottawa (YOW), twice weekly, beginning Dec. 17.

Turks and Caicos is the fifth new sun destination to be added to Porter’s growing winter seasonal network, joining recently announced Aruba, San Jose (Costa Rica), Montego Bay and Los Cabos. This is in addition to existing service to Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Nassau, Grand Cayman and Liberia.

Source: Phocuswire

Most travel AI conversations today focus on the parts companies can control: pricing, revenue management, guest messaging, marketing, customer service, partner reporting and back-office automation. Those tools matter, and the companies that use them well will have a real cost advantage.
But that is only half the story. The harder question is what AI does to the traveler: Do they have a job? Is their disposable income growing? Do they have time off? And how do they search and book?

Source: CBC News

Experts said the El Niño, a natural warming cycle, should further heat a globe already warming from fossil fuel pollution and will likely turbocharge extreme weather across the planet. Meteorologists forecast it will rival — or exceed — a record El Niño that began in 1997 and helped trigger billions of dollars in damage from heat waves, floods, droughts, tornadoes and wildfires.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officially confirmed the existence of the El Niño, which is a warming of the Pacific near the equator that affects weather patterns across the globe.

The weather pattern’s effects vary by region. El Niño often dampens — but doesn’t eliminate — Atlantic hurricane season activity, but increases it in the Pacific. So while the U.S. East and Gulf coasts may get a break, Hawaii and other islands are more in danger, Frazier said.

Source: Independent U.K.

It’s all eyes on Canada as the North American country gets ready to co-host the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
With Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver welcoming 38 days of sporting action, football fans will be spoiled for choice when it comes to exploring between matches.
Landscapes in the world’s second-largest country by area range from the Canadian Rockies to prairie grasslands and the frozen Arctic north

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