North American specialist tour operator, America & Canada As You Like It, has launched a new booking website called Trip Campers, specialising in RV and motorhome holidays in the two countries. Renting a recreational vehicle is seen as an alternativeand relatively low-contact way to travel as countries begin to reopen to tourists The RV is equi...

Celebrity chef Ned Bell takes over the inn and its restaurant in the small Okanagan town of Naramata. It's Tuesday night and the new Restaurant at Naramata Inn is bumping. Every table in the high-ceilinged dining room is full, as are the tables on the heritage hotel's covered veranda, which doubles as the restaurant's patio. Between plating meals i...

This small surfing town of Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island has big tourism cachet Surf instructor Ania Splawinski makes us feel awesome about being kooks. Kook, or a Barney, if you prefer, is a beginner surfer and depending on how quickly newbies catch onto the sport, the term is either affectionate or derogatory. "These longboards yo...

With the Grand Canyon authorities resuming river operations Western River Expeditions' is offering a range of 2020 departures. Western River Expeditions' six or seven day Grand Canyon Rafting Vacation carries guests 188 river miles in custom-designed J-Rig rafts, maneuvering Class III-V rapids before a helicopter transports them back to the rim. It...

Plymouth 400 is the Massachusetts-based nonprofit that, 2009, has led the planning and execution of programs and events commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage and the founding of Plymouth Colony in 1620. Plymouth Rock, a boulder in Pilgrim Memorial State Park, marks the place where settlers are thought to have landed on shore. ...

Sanibel Island in southwest Florida is known for beaches filled with shells that wash ashore from the Gulf of Mexico. Lighthouse Beach has a fishing pier, the towering, 19th-century Sanibel Lighthouse and a boardwalk winding through marshes. The Causeway Beaches are a water-sports hub and have picnic facilities. J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlif...