by Andrew Hempstead | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog, British Columbia, COVID, Travel with children
I cancelled all work-related travel for this year, but our family also wanted some ocean time, so we decided to head out to Vancouver Island and stay in a self-contained property, thereby minimizing risk to ourselves or others. Driving would have entailed food and gas...
by Andrew Hempstead | May 25, 2020 | Banff, Blog, Canadian Rockies, COVID
Due to the pandemic, tourism in 2020 in the Canadian Rockies is shaping up very differently than usual. I am assuming that visitors will not be allowed to enter Canada for much of this year, meaning that the millions of tourists from the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the...
by Andrew Hempstead | Apr 18, 2020 | Banff, Blog, COVID
Riding out Covid 19 in Banff is no different to doing so anywhere else in the world. But there is a big difference for the town itself. As a tourist resort that attracts millions of visitors annually, most of the residents rely on the tourism industry for an income,...
by Andrew Hempstead | Feb 28, 2020 | Blog, Canadian Rockies, Guidebook History, Guidebooks
Since the first edition of Moon Alberta was published in 1995 (right), the design of Moon covers has evolved greatly. At that time, Moon was the only major guidebook company that did not use a corporate colour on their covers, and every cover featured a different...
by Andrew Hempstead | Nov 30, 2019 | Blog, Travel with children
Between my work as a travel writer, family vacations, and trips home to Australia, I had assumed a few years back that by the time our two children graduated high school they would be “million milers” through the Air Canada Million Mile Program, which...
by Andrew Hempstead | May 27, 2019 | Atlantic Canada, Blog, Guidebooks
As the proud new owners of a mapping company (gemtrek.com), 2018 was very busy for us. But sales of Moon Atlantic Canada had been very strong over the last year, so I was asked to write an update for spring 2019 publication. It was mostly updating prices and keep...
