Are you planning a holiday to Canada? If yes, then do visit Toronto. Toronto is an amazing place with gorgeous tourist attractions. You can actually enjoy the beauty and fun of Canada if you take a trip to Toronto. Here are a few beautiful tourist attractions in Toronto.

CN Tower: The CN tower is where you should go first. What is so great about this tower? Well, this is the tallest tower in the whole world.

Toronto Islands: This is best place for you to enjoy with your family. The Toronto Islands are exquisite with recreational facilities, amusement parks, water sports and many other tourist attractions. Toronto islands offer something for everybody. This is the best place to have an exciting time. Your family will love it.

Harbourfront Centre: Harbourfront is an excellent tourist attraction situated 10 acres along Lake Ontario. It has many things to offer ranging from water sports to craft shops and parks. It is great place that will make your holiday in Toronto memorable.

Chinatown: You can taste the delicious food of Toronto in Chinatown. This place is a must to visit. There are diverse vendors for clothing, food, Asian jewellery and lots more. Add this place to the list of places you must visit.

Hockey Hall of Fame: If you love the game of hockey, you must visit this place. Canadians are extremely fond of hockey and hence they have the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. This is a great place as there are many interactive displays and hockey artefacts for you to see.

Toronto is an awesome place where you can eat, shop, have fun and enjoy the beauty of travelling. So what are you waiting for? Pack your bags and fly to Toronto.

Toronto is a good-looking city and many frequent guests and area residents agree that the city can be best viewed from the water. So, where else can you get the spectacular views of the skyline and CD Towers? However, Toronto cruises are not just for the summer months. Can you visualise celebrating Christmas and the New Year on a cruise in Toronto Harbour? Toronto area residents and the frequent travellers have long understood that there are exceptional and fun ways to enjoy their holidays while still maintaining the traditions.

Christmas on the water:
This is a new concept for those who love to host parties on board a Toronto cruise ship. The cruise ships are ideal for smaller parties with around 300 guests. As the cruise ships are completely heated, they make it comfortable and warm for the staff and clients.

Even large families are known to host holiday get-togethers on the water. Additionally, cruises are popular ways for celebrating holidays as a family or as a couple. Shared events also provide an opportunity for smaller groups to join in the excitement without any need to charter the whole cruise ship.

Also, the views of the Toronto skyline offer a festive backdrop to the delicious chef-prepared meal. Toronto visitors and residents are learning that it is more fun to have fun on the water instead of sitting at home and celebrating Christmas in the standard way. So, if you are looking forward for a great holiday deal at a cheaper cost, Toronto is the ideal place to be.

Those travellers who want to take city breaks, or longer holidays in New York this year, are being encouraged to make use of the summer special offers being promoted by the company that runs the CityPass scheme in New York City.

CityPass is a scheme that offers discounts tickets to attractions throughout the city of New York allowing holidaymakers to take advantage of lower prices that can be up to 44 per cent lower than regular prices.

The promotion includes a number of New York’s most famous attractions worldwide including the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum.

Adults can purchase a CityPass booklet from any of the attractions of the visitor centre of Seventh Avenue, just north from Times Square for just $79 (£49).

In addition, a new mobile application was launched this year allowing people to download information to their iPhone.

CityPass is not only limited to New York but also offers discount attraction schemes in other cities in Canada and the United States, including Toronto and San Francisco.

Those taking city breaks to Toronto this season will be able to sample some unique entertainment during this month until the 1st September at the Adrenaline Rush film festival.

Each Tuesday a different film will be shown in the outdoors of the Yonge-Dundas Square in the centre of Toronto.

The festival is an annual event although each year has a different theme. Last year’s festival was on a romance theme and this year it focuses upon adventure films.

The Adrenaline Rush festival started earlier this week with the Alfred Hitchcock classic ‘North by Northwest’ and in July it will be showing; Le Mans, Apollo 13 and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The films showing in Yonge-Dundas Square of Toronto in August will include Gladiator and the classic film The Great Escape concluding with Lawence of Arabia.

Toronto is popular for city breaks and holiday deals for those looking for somewhere a little difference and includes the Art Gallery of Ontario and the CN Tower as just two of the must-see attractions for the trip.

Flights to Toronto are available from major UK airports and with a variety of airline carriers.

The Canadian National Exhibition is likely to mean that last minute holidays to Toronto will prove popular this August.

The National Exhibition is more commonly called ‘the Ex’ and this year will run from the 21st August to the 7th September. The exhibition is difficult to classify as it contains any number of weird and wonderful acts and shows throughout the celebrations. Amongst these on the agenda will include sports events, animal performances and circus shows as well as many more.

The Ex takes place on the shores of Lake Ontario in the heart of Toronto and can be accessed by public transport or car.

One of the highlights to be expected in 2009 is the Canadian International Air Show as it celebrates its 60th year. To catch this particular part of the celebrations, you will need to attend on either the 5th, 6th or 7th September.

A movie-themed ice skating and acrobatic demonstration is to be given in Toronto at the Ricoh Coliseum where acts will perform to music and clips from popular films such as The Godfather, Top Gun and Slumdog Millionaire.

British Airways, KLM and Air Canada all offer flights to Toronto, ideal for last minute holidays.

Those looking to pay a visit to places in Canada such as Toronto or Vancouver this year are being given a list of 20 ‘summer adventures’ they might like to try in an effort to highlight the great number of possibility for holidays in the country.

The list is provided by the Canadian Tourism Commission and features a number of exciting trips and activities to try in different areas of the country.

Some of these activities are water-themed such as kayaking on the Nahanni River or canoeing in Georgian Bay.

Another exciting adventure is kayaking in Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, an area noted for its ecological diversity and referred to as the Galapagos of the North.

Vancouver received a special mention offering diving excursions to see a number of shipwrecks off Vancouver Island or surfing in nearby Tofino.

For those seeking holiday deals steering clear of water there are the Torngat Mountains in Newfoundland, polar bear spotting in the Wapusk National Park or the Nova Scotia Cabot Trail to cycle or even hike.

Holiday deals to Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary or other cities in Canada are available from major airports with airlines such as Air Canada, KLM or British Airways.

This month, air carrier Emirates has launched new Airbus A380 flights to Toronto in Canada and Bangkok in Thailand increasing the range of holidays to these destinations.

These new flights are a new experience for holidaymakers as this is the first time that the A380 has been used for commercial flights to Toronto and Bangkok. The flights will operate from Dubai three times a week to Toronto and once a day to Bangkok. Emirates said they mark: ‘a new era of luxury air travel to Thailand and Canada’.

Tim Clark, president of the airline, said:

‘Emirates is delighted to celebrate its inaugural A380 services to Thailand and Canada today. The aircraft with its large capacity and excellent operating economies is a pillar of growth, both for the airline and the destination.’

Emirates already runs an extensive network of international flights from the central hub in Dubai including holidays to Sydney in Australia and Auckland in New Zealand to name but a few.

From 30th April until 10th May every year, buildings, from restaurants to shops, office buildings to art galleries; all doors across Toronto open to holiday makers and the general public for the Doors Open Toronto Festival.

There are over 175 building who open up to the public every year and many of these have an architectural, cultural or historic significance not generally available for the public to see. Visitors can explore banking rooms, boardrooms, theatres and modern landmarks. In many of the buildings there are special activities, exhibitions, talks and tours.

The festival is North America’s largest annual documentary celebration.

There will also be a hundred ‘cutting edge’ documentaries from around the world including Canada and the festival has a huge variety of programming events which are ideal for holiday makers and industry professionals.

The film selections scheduled to run have been announced on the Toronto Festival’s Hot Docs website.

One from hundreds of planned events is the Distillery Historic District Arts Festival which takes place completely under tents on the grounds of the historic Distillery District on the weekends of; May 23rd & 24th, August 1st – 3rd and September 4th – 7th 2009. Canadian artists will showcase their work in photography, painting, watercolour, stained glass, and sculpture and fibre art.

This event offers visitors the chance to purchase what is displayed.

The airline, Emirates has recently announced they plan to bring their Airbus A380 into service operating a new network of flights from Dubai to Toronto and Bangkok to cater for the increased number of holiday makers wishing to travel on these routes.

From 1st June 2009 there will be new flights in place which will also represent the debut of Canada’s A380 craft and a further expansion of Emirate’s presence within the Asia Pacific area, following the launch of these additional flights to Sydney and Auckland in February 2009.

The new super jumbo jet is going to provide an increased capacity of around 30% on both routes from Dubai.

President of Emirates, Tim Clark said:

“We are extremely pleased to announce the introduction of the A380 for our Toronto and Bangkok services. Our Toronto route has had consistently high demand since the thrice-weekly service was launched two years ago. The A380 will allow Emirates to address some of the unmet need in Toronto while in Bangkok the A380 will help support the Thai government’s new tourism initiatives.”

The A380 aircraft has 14 first class cabins with 399 economy spaces and 76 business class seats.

Emirates have also just unveiled their new ‘e-zone’ entertainment and technology area for holiday makers and passengers within its business class lounge in Dubai.

Holiday makers who are in Toronto, Canada on 9th May could catch ‘The Beguiling’ at a festival full of Canada’s greatest purveyors of graphic novels and comics; the 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival at The Toronto Reference Library on Saturday May 9th and Sunday May 10th.

The third annual festival will draw a diverse array of the world’s cartoonists and is a phenomenal exhibition of comic talent from around the globe.

The festival is due to be set across 15,000 square feet at the Toronto Reference Library complex with attractions including two weeks of events and programming leading up to the two day extravaganza featuring 200 cartoonists.

The event is free to attend and should be considered by anyone who is taking a holiday to the city and is interested in cartoon and art. This is the chance to see a full showcasing of the talents of international and home grown comic authors through a variety of presentations; from workshops, discussion panels, lectures and gallery showings to an award ceremony for the 2009 Doug Wright Awards in Canadian Cartooning.

International cartoonists who are appearing at the TCAF for the very first time are: Emmanuel Guibert (France), Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Japan) and Anke Feuchetenberger (Germany). Presenting new work at the festival will be: Americans Adrian Tomine and Ivan Brunetti, who is showing his new collection of dark humour comics entitled Ho!