Air Canada's Nino Montagnese and Lisa Pierce: Travel is Back

Image: Lisa Pierce, Air Canada, and Nino Montagnese, Air Canada Vacations (Jim Byers/TravelPulse Canada)
Image: Lisa Pierce, Air Canada, and Nino Montagnese, Air Canada Vacations (Jim Byers/TravelPulse Canada)
by Jim Byers
Last updated: 12:10 AM ET, Wed September 8, 2021

The message was a simple but powerful one: travel is back.

Some things have changed, of course. Travellers need to think more about entry requirements and test results and vaccinations than they did two years ago, but the recent Air Canada travel agents race in Basel, Switzerland showed that Canadians can once again let loose and visit some of their favourite destinations.

TravelPulse Canada was in Switzerland last week to watch the fun and caught up with Lisa Pierce, Vice President Canada and USA Sales, Air Canada, and Nino Montagnese, Vice President, Air Canada Vacations, for a brief video chat about the race and the state of travel today.

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