Get ready for Big Recovery

Welcome to this issue of Selling-Travel. As always, our aim is to offer you features and stories that have a dual purpose in mind: to inspire you to read on about destinations, even if some are familiar to you, and to offer some fresh insights and tips to sell them.

As summer turns to autumn, it is fair to say that travel's Big recovery is more of a hesitant crawl than a positive march, but we trust the following pages will get you thinking, perhaps even dreaming, about shores both near and far.

In this issue we take an extended look at Canada, a country that will - all things being equal - start to welcome Brits back from September 7. The impact on Canada's tourism suppliers - large and small - has, like with most other places, been devastating. But those suppliers will be hoping that the autumn and winter will provide some much needed relief in the shape of UK tourists heading to the country for its fall colours, national parks, dynamic cities, coastal villages, winter resorts and ski hills... and more.

After losing almost two complete 'normal' tourism seasons, the rocky Mountaineer will once again be operating its luxury sightseeing trips through the rocky Mountains until october 7. It is not too late to book clients on to one of the world's most iconic and inspiring train trips.

As Stuart Forster writes in his evocative opening to his feature, Canada is a country that inspires and provokes a sense of awe and wonderment. read the latest news and updates from many of its provinces, on pages 36-49. elsewhere, we bring you updates on destinations as diverse as Iceland, Israel, Mauritius, Phuket and North Dakota, USA.

Finally, a big thank you to our four agent columnists who have continued to write for

Selling-Travel, each issue offering their own unique perspectives of the difficulties they face, along with their hopes, at a time when business has been worryingly minimal for them. read their latest words on pages 12-14.