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Travel + Leisure Co. has released its 2025 Corporate Responsibility Annual Report, detailing the global vacation company’s progress in environmental stewardship, responsible tourism, associate development, community investment and corporate governance.

The report outlines the company’s Full Circle corporate responsibility strategy and establishes updated environmental goals extending through 2030. It also highlights measurable progress across a portfolio that serves nearly 800,000 owner families and includes more than 280 vacation club resorts and 3,600 RCI-affiliated resorts worldwide.

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The federal proposal, first introduced at September’s Canada Investment Summit, aims to attract global investment while keeping a public stake in the land and assets, an approach is similar to models in Europe and Australia.

However, airlines and experts are already worried it could lead to higher airline fees and increased costs for travellers.

Transport Minister Stephen MacKinnon said in September that the Canadian government would prevent “unreasonable” price hikes at the four major Canadian airports, but stopped short of guaranteeing that prices wouldn’t rise for travellers.

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Hundreds of the world’s biggest names in travel gathered in Malta this week for the 26th edition of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) Global Summit to discuss the challenges and opportunities the industry is facing.

Covering everything from luxury travel and longevity to the future airport experience and how destinations can grow sustainably, the panels gave an insight into what governments and businesses will be focusing on in the coming years.

Canada’s former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was this year’s main speaker, joining WTTC President and CEO Gloria Guevara on stage to chat about “how to shape the opportunity ahead”.

Source: Statistics Canada

The operating revenue of the travel arrangement and reservation services industry group rose 8.8% to $18.3 billion in 2025. This follows an increase of 9.3% in 2024. Although operating revenues of these industries posted slower growth in 2025, they still topped the high of $16.8 billion recorded the previous year.

In 2025, operating revenue of the industry group was up 24.9% from 2019, while the Consumer Price Index—which represents changes in prices as experienced by Canadian consumers—rose 20.7% over the same period.

In 2025, the number of return trips from the United States by Canadian residents fell 25.4% year over year. This continues a series of 11 consecutive months of decreases. As a result, at the end of 2025, return trips from the United States represented two-thirds of all return trips from abroad, compared with three-quarters of return trips from abroad in 2024.

The travel arrangement and reservation services industry group is composed of three industries: travel agencies, tour operators, and other travel arrangement and reservation services.

Source: CNN

Disney’s price hikes are an annual October ritual for the company, and it’s always a tricky balancing act between increasing revenue and consumers’ willingness to pay.

Many ticket types, passes and add-ons at Disneyland are not increasing at all this time. But premium products are getting more expensive, like the highest-level, skip-the-line service at Walt Disney World, which could now run just shy of the $500 mark during peak demand.

Source: Travel + Leisure

Cross the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Bridge from Lubec, Maine, and in a matter of minutes you’re in another country—and a different time zone. Campobello Island is in New Brunswick, Canada, one hour ahead of Maine. Yet tucked onto this Canadian island is something found nowhere else in the world: a park jointly owned and run by two countries.

Roosevelt Campobello International Park isn’t a U.S. or Canadian national park. Instead, Canada and the United States jointly own, fund, and manage it through an international commission with equal representation from both countries.

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