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UPDATED! We’re on the lookout for an experienced

UPDATED! We’re on the lookout for an experienced, ambitious, team-oriented Account Manager with a great all-hands-on-deck attitude to join the Bannikin team. ⁠
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You’ll be working closely with our small integrated communications team to design and implement winning media relations and trade development (B2B sales) strategies and campaigns for our roster of niche travel and tourism clients. ⁠
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Complete position and application details at the link in our bio.⁠
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Photo by: Katerina-Holmes

We're turning to Bannikin's home country for today

We're turning to Bannikin's home country for today's installment of #BannikinBeats. Tanya Tagaq is an Inuk throat singer from Iqaluktuuttiaq, Nunavut, which is located on the south coast of Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic. ⁠
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Tagaq first became widely known both in Canada and internationally for her collaborations with Icelandic singer Björk. ⁠
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Inuit throat singing, or katajjaq, is a form of musical performance unique to the Inuit. The traditional form consists of two women who sing duets in a close face-to-face formation with no instrumental accompaniment, in a contest to see who can outlast the other; however, Tagaq, one of the genre's most famous practitioners, performs as a solo artist.⁠
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Her third album, 'Animism', released in 2014 on Six Shooter Records, was awarded the 2014 Polaris Music Prize. The Polaris Music Prize is similar to Britain's 'Mercury Prize', in that it is given annually to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. ⁠
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Click the link in our bio to listen to 'Animism' on Spotify.⁠
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We’re on the lookout for an experienced, ambitio

We’re on the lookout for an experienced, ambitious, team-oriented Account Manager with a great all-hands-on-deck attitude to join the Bannikin team. ⁠
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You’ll be working closely with our small integrated communications team to design and implement winning media relations and trade development (B2B sales) strategies and campaigns for our roster of niche travel and tourism clients. ⁠
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Complete position and application details at the link in our bio.

📸: Keira Burton

Congratulations to Veselka Huljić and @andadventu

Congratulations to Veselka Huljić and @andadventure! Named a 2021 Top Travel Specialist for #Croatia by Condé Nast Traveler!

It's been a tough year. One where we've all had to

It's been a tough year. One where we've all had to rely on one another. So we wanted to start using our Friday posts to showcase and celebrate our friends from around the industry. This week we're starting it off with the good people at @glpfilms. ⁠
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They've put together #TourismStrong, an uplifting video series celebrating the resilience of the travel industry through positive tourism stories amidst the COVID-19 global pandemic. And they've now taken many of those stories and curated them into a report: #TourismStrong - Lessons and Solutions for a Sustainable Tourism Future.⁠
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You can watch the #TourismStrong video series and sign up to receive @glpfilms free report with key takeaways from travel industry peers at the link in our bio.

Is your brand ready? ICYMI: Late last year we pu

Link in bio. ⁠ 📸: @rf._.studio

Link in bio. ⁠
📸: @rf._.studio

Whoa! Repost from @sayhueque_argentinatravel
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Nature is amazing! 😍

Thanks to @evahesh from @patagonia_explorer for sharing this unbelievable video of whales at Beagle Channel

#ushuaia #ushuaiaendoftheworld #explorepatagonia #patagoniatravel #argentinatravel #southamericatrip #latinamericatravel #mountainscape #travelinspiration #outdooradventures #whales #beaglechannel

Our latest newsletter provides a comprehensive rou

Our latest newsletter provides a comprehensive roundup of travel- and coronavirus-related developments affecting our industry at large from February. Click to read at the link in our bio. ⁠
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📸: @nappystock⁠

While the world at large is well-aware of the impa

While the world at large is well-aware of the impact Covid-19 has had on the #travel industry overall, a conversation that is still in its infancy—by nature of how slowly things have evolved—is the impact the pandemic has had on media relations. ⁠
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We share our perspective on this growing conversation, with insight into how: ⁠
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- press trips have become more complicated⁠
- social media is bigger than before⁠
- local writers are a good bet⁠
- diversity = responsible tourism⁠
- trust & transparency rule⁠

With insights from: @noriecicerone @stephanieapearson @michaelatrimble @joytripproject @bitsofbee @monagable

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Click the link in bio to read more at @poweredbyadventure_⁠
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📸: @diegorezendeph⁠
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#PoweredByAdventure #MediaRelations #Travel #Tourism⁠
#TravelIndustry

This time out for #BannikinBeats, we're listening

This time out for #BannikinBeats, we're listening to 'Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai,' the best known work to come from the music label Sahel Sounds, which covers the Sahel region of northwestern Africa, spanning Mauritania, Mali, and Niger, along with dozens of languages and dialects.⁠
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“I was a typical backpacker-tourist, except I had a small field recorder,” says label founder Christopher Kirkley.
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"The label's 30-plus releases stretch far beyond the timeless desert blues... highlighting the chaotic balafon-inflected Balani street parties of Bamako, the Auto-Tuned, Bollywood-influenced Hausa soundtrack scene in northern Niger, sci-fi teenage hip-hop from Mali, and more. Like much English-language pop music, it is the sound of the present crashing into the future, new technologies applied to old ideas by young minds. It is the sound of now sung in African modes over African grooves." ⁠
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Read more from @pitchfork's 'Sahel Sounds: Music From 21st-Century West Africa' at the link in our bio.

From @theatlantic: 'COVID-19 Cases Are Dropping Fa

From @theatlantic: 'COVID-19 Cases Are Dropping Fast. Why?' by @dkthomp⁠
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"Although the pandemic isn’t over, we have perhaps reached the beginning of the end of COVID-19 as an exponential, existential, and mortal threat to our health-care system and our senior population." ⁠
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Read the full article at the link in our bio.

⁠ "In the wake of the introduction of PCR test r

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"In the wake of the introduction of PCR test requirements for all arriving passengers and the announcement that Canada’s major carriers were suspending flights to the Caribbean and Mexico, the travel industry was dealt another blow with the ban on pleasure craft and cruise vessels in Canadian waters officially extended until Feb. 28, 2022."⁠
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From @baxtermediaca, 'Canadian operators weigh in on cruise ban extension' by @aruppy. Link in bio. ⁠
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📸: @souvenirpixels⁠
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#cruisenews #explorecanada #canada #explorebc #arcticcruise #arctic #beautifulbc #hellobc #britishcolumbia #snapshot #cruisecanada #tourcanada #cruiseindustry #cruiseindustrynews

The results are in. It was the largest ever BC coa

The results are in. It was the largest ever BC coastal marine debris clean up. A fleet of 9 ships and 17 skiffs, 111 crew members and 69 First Nation community members, all collected 127,060 kg of beach-cast marine debris (especially from plastics, derelict fishing gear) from 401 sites and 540 km of hard-to-access shoreline off British Columbia’s west coast. ⁠
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And guess what? There’s way more out there and our friends at @OuterShores want to do it again. #cleancoastcleanwaters #BCCoastalCleanUp⁠
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Last fall, @OuterShores partnered with BC’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy and several Indigenous Nations as part of a $3.5M project to clean up the central coast shores off the Great Bear Rainforest. See the full report at the link in our bio. ⁠
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#cleancoastcleanwater #saferoceans #cleanbc #betterbc #bccoastalcleanup #explorecanada #exploreBC #greatbearrainforest #getoutside #keepitwild #beachcleanup #protectingbc #marinedebris #plasticpollution #ghostfishinggear #cleanocean #oneocean #beautifulbc #canada #leaveitbetter #westcoastbestcoast #microplastics #bcwehaveaproblem#oceanawareness #lifebelowwater⁠
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@coastalfirstnations @kitasooxaixais @heitsukcouncil @neiltsukcouncil @CCIndigenousResourceAlliance @wildernesstourismassociation @georgeheyman @sheilamalcomsonbc @johnhorgan4bc @oceanadventurescharter @bluewateradventuresbc @mothership.adventures @outershores @wildernesstourismassociation @pacificyellowfincharters @oceanlight2adventures @mapleleafadvent @bearviewingbc @destinationindigenous @indigenoustourismbc @gitgaatspirit

"The tape had no label, no credits and no song tit

"The tape had no label, no credits and no song titles. But Paul Simon couldn’t get enough of it. Throughout the summer of 1984, he kept popping the mystery cassette – given to him by a friend, guitarist Heidi Berg – into his car stereo, singing along to the uplifting rhythms and, in particular, the lusty squeeze of a strangely soulful accordion." - Rolling Stone magazine, Oct. 23, 1986⁠
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With the help of white South African record producer Hilton Rosenthal, and against the backdrop of apartheid, Paul Simon set out to find the South African musicians behind the tape. In Johannesburg, he would record with some of the leading Black South African artists – among them the Boyoyo Boys (the group featured on the mystery tape) – on his way to releasing ‘Graceland.’
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You can hear a re-created version of the cassette that inspired Simon's controversial and contentious album at the link in our bio. ⁠#BannikinBeats
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In our final Bannikin #Branding & #Storytelling vi

Today! Bannikin's own Zach Vanasse hosts the @trav

Today! Bannikin's own Zach Vanasse hosts the @travelweek #Travel Trends panel, don't miss it!

Register at the link in bio.

As governments around the world react to new virus

As governments around the world react to new virus variants, the travel community continues to look to the future and the evolution of the industry in a post-pandemic world. ⁠
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Get a comprehensive recap of travel- and coronavirus-related developments affecting our industry in our January round-up. Link in bio. ⁠
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Photo credit: Quang Nguyen Vinh ⁠
(www.facebook.com/QuangPraha)

Still trying to land on the right voice for your b

"When Covid-19 came knocking last March, Rafa Maye

"When Covid-19 came knocking last March, Rafa Mayer, founder and team leader of @sayhueque_argentinatravel, like everyone else, had no idea what this pandemic would bring. However, he did know that if his business was going to survive, he would need buy-in from his employees every step of the way."⁠
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Learn how Rafa held to his key beliefs - that the key to a successful workplace culture is not to treat employees like “family”, but rather, as a community - in his approach to team management during one of the most volatile periods in the history of tourism in a new story from @poweredbyadventure_.

Link in bio. ⁠

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