Van Sun Travel Blog
Destination tips, itinerary ideas, and stories from our trips around the world.
October 27, 2026
Canadian interest in African safaris keeps climbing. Nearly 66,000 Canadians visited South Africa in 2025, pushing arrivals back to 99% of pre-pandemic levels and making Canada the countrys eighth-largest international…
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October 23, 2026
Whistler Blackcomb has set a target opening day of November 20, 2026 for the 2026/27 winter season, and the mountain is adding a new Showcase Chair that opens roughly 215…
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October 22, 2026
Quebec City just closed out its busiest tourist season on record, and for the first time ever it out drew Vancouver as the busiest city in Canada during peak season.…
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October 21, 2026
Canadian interest in Iceland vacation packages is climbing as 2027 planning gets underway. According to Milesopedia, travel agencies have reported a marked rise in requests for Iceland, Norway, northern Canada…
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October 20, 2026
Italy is having a moment with Canadian travellers. After the Cortina-Milan Winter Olympics put the country back in the global spotlight earlier this year, Travel Courier reported that agents are…
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October 17, 2026
Canadians are hitting the road in record numbers. Car-sharing marketplace Turo reported a 30% year-over-year increase in domestic road trip bookings for December 2025 compared with the same month the…
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October 16, 2026
Canadian interest in Europe is holding up well heading into 2026, even as many households watch their travel budgets more closely. Travel advisors told Travel Week that fall bookings to…
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October 15, 2026
Morocco welcomed a record 17.4 million visitors in 2024, up 20% from the year before, and the country's tourism office has responded by putting Marrakech's medina squarely at the center…
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Old Québec is about to light up for the holidays: the city’s German Christmas Market returns November 19 to December 23, 2026, spread across six historic squares from Place de…
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October 13, 2026
Canada's enthusiasm for small-group travel just got a vote of confidence from the industry itself. In September 2026, Intrepid Travel and Air Canada Vacations announced a partnership built on one…
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October 12, 2026
Canada's outbound travel map is being redrawn. Statistics Canada's first-quarter 2026 figures show Canadians took 10.6% fewer trips to the United States while overseas travel climbed 6.2%, with overseas spending…
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October 10, 2026
Statistics Canada's first-quarter numbers for 2026 show something travel advisors across the country have been describing anecdotally for months: Canadians are pulling back from trips to the United States and…
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October 9, 2026
New numbers from Statistics Canada put a figure on something travel advisors have been sensing all year: Canadians are rerouting their trip budgets away from the United States and toward…
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Early October marks a turning point for Kenya's Great Migration: the wildebeest herds that have spread across the Maasai Mara since midsummer begin shifting back toward Tanzania's Serengeti this month,…
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October 1 marks World Gorilla Day, and Uganda has plenty to celebrate. Gorilla tourism revenue climbed to 110 billion Ugandan shillings in 2025/26, up from 86 billion just two years…
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September 22, 2026
Jinja, Uganda's adventure capital on the White Nile, is about to get a very different kind of visitor. This November, the riverside just outside town will host Nyege Nyege 2026,…
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Canadian trips to the United States collapsed by 23.5% between 2024 and 2025 — wiping out C$3.3 billion in cross-border spending — and the retreat kept going into 2026, with…
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Kenya's Great Migration river crossings wind down by September 25, but for travellers willing to shift their calendar, November opens a quieter, greener chapter of Mara safari season. According to…
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September 18, 2026
Canadian travellers are rethinking the calendar. A 2026 travel survey found that 47% of Canadians now prefer shoulder-season trips and 41% are actively seeking out less crowded destinations, as reported…
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Kenya's Great Migration crossing season is entering its final stretch. Peak Mara River crossing activity runs through September 25, 2026, according to a 2026 Masai Mara migration guide, after which…
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Canadian travellers are redrawing their maps in 2026. As trips south of the border keep declining, outbound demand is flowing instead toward Mexico, Japan, France, and long-haul destinations across Africa…
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Kenya's peak safari season is winding down, and for Canadian travellers weighing a Maasai Mara trip, early-to-mid October is quietly one of the best windows left on the calendar. The…
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Canadian long-haul travel keeps climbing — long-haul trip participation has jumped from 40% of all trips in 2023 to 52% in 2026, and much of that growth is flowing toward…
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Canadian travellers are rewriting their 2026 itineraries. A new Flight Centre report on Canada's travel mindset found outbound trips to the United States have declined for twelve straight months, while…
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