Plus: Victoria International Airport honoured for pollinator garden.
Vancouver Island and Victoria have been recognized as a top global travel destination by Condé Nast Traveler’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards.About 520,000 people participated in Condé Nast’s survey this year, the 36th edition.
Oak Bay Beach Hotel was named the seventh best in the region, the Fairmont Empress 10th, the Magnolia Hotel & Spa 11th and Salt Spring’s Hastings House the 14th best hotel in Western Canada. Schenk top director for Sooke Chamber Deb Schenk is the new executive director of the Sooke Chamber of Commerce.
She succeeds Britt Santowski, who served four years in the role and remains as a member of the chamber board; Santowski has started a new career with the province in communications.
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