A PIONEER IN PLEASURE CRUISING

The year 2016 is a special one for Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, celebrating its 125th anniversary. In 1891, Albert Ballin launched the first pleasure cruise on the Augusta Victoria and in doing so laid the foundation of what is now a major industry.

For the past four years Bahamas Waste Management has had assistance powering their fleet of vehicles in Nassau from the most unlikely source. Disney Cruise Line has donated used cooking oil which is converted into biodiesel fuel, a nontoxic, biodegradable fuel that reduces engine emissions.

Rainbow InFocus is your monthly wrap of LGBT news from around the world, spotlighting friendly places to travel to, latest developments in human rights, and other travel related tidbits of knowledge to make planning your next journey that much easier.

That quote is credited to Ernest Hemingway and this spring the winner of a fiction-writing competition will have the opportunity to work in the Key West writing studio that was once the sanctum of Ernest Hemingway, one of America's greatest authors.

In November a US District Court jury in Seattle awarded US $21.5 million in damages to an Illinois businessman who suffered a minor brain injury when he was struck in the head by a sliding-glass door on the Holland America MS Amsterdam.

The office of Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has reminded airlines they do not need to vet children against Canada's no-fly list. Goodale promised to investigate after a six-year-old was stopped in Toronto by airport security December 31st.

North Americans love their burgers. They may not be the primary cuisine, but they remain the most consumed food in the restaurants. As a traveller in Montreal, you will also find it hard to resist the appetizing burgers’ aroma from the city’s burger joints.