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Premier Holidays to sell ski packages in winter push for Canada
Premier Holidays is to offer ski holidays to Canada for the first time after seeing a surge in bookings for the destination.
Its 2019 brochure also features other winter activities, including ice climbing, a medicine trail snowshoe tour, helicopter dog sledding in Mont Tremblant and sleigh rides in Banff.
The new brochure has also given more space to self-drive holidays, with both car and motorhome options available. New self-drive tours include the 14-night Totem Peaks independent tour of Western Canada, a four-night Discover Haida Gwali side trip, a seven-night Wonders of Alaska self-drive, and a nine-night In The Footsteps of Yukon Pioneers tour.
It has also added a nine-night Rocky Mountaineer Canadian Rockies Circle rail and coach tour along with a Glacier Bay National Park cruise.
The operator said its 2018 bookings for Canada were 21% up year on year, so it’s trying to encourage visitors go in the less popular months.
Canada product manager Tim Greathead: "We’ve experienced a huge demand for Canada this year, and there is increasingly less availability for popular periods such as spring and summer. For 2019, we’ve unveiled a selection of winter options as a way to encourage clients to discover Canada in this season."
Linsey McNeill
Editor Linsey McNeill has been writing about travel for more than three decades. Bylines include The Times, Telegraph, Observer, Guardian and Which? plus the South China Morning Post. She also shares insider tips on thetraveljournalist.co.uk
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