Earn a Year of Free Travel: Sunwing Vacations Launches Canada's Next Top Creators
Twenty emerging creators will turn their passion for travel content into a career opportunity, receiving training, tropical vacations, cash and gear valued at $10K, with two grand prize winners earning an additional $10K and a full year of travel
TORONTO, June 10, 2025 /CNW/ - This summer, through its Canada's Next Top Creators program, Sunwing Vacations is offering 20 aspiring and emerging content creators the opportunity of a lifetime: to earn money while traveling, create content for one of Canada's leading vacation providers, and hone their craft through expert-led training and mentorship. Winners will enjoy all-inclusive tropical vacations, receive premium GoPro gear, and earn a cash stipend—a total prize package valued at $10,000.
But the journey doesn't end there. Two standout creators will take home grand prizes of $10,000 cash each, plus a full year Sunwing vacations to continue building their portfolios across sun-soaked destinations.
GoPro, the action camera that has helped the world capture and share experiences in immersive and exciting ways for more than 20 years, has partnered with Sunwing Vacations to provide creators with everything they need to capture magic in motion. From sun-soaked coastlines to urban exploration and outdoor adventures, GoPro is the perfect partner to help rising talent push creative boundaries and share their journeys with the world.
"GoPro strives to inspire people to pursue their passions and share their unique perspective with the world," said Kelly Baker, Senior Director of Marketing at GoPro. "Our cameras are designed for capturing life in its most dynamic form—whether it's a breathtaking beach in the Caribbean or a behind-the-scenes moment of creativity. We're proud to support Sunwing's creator initiative, Canada's Next Top Creators, by empowering this next generation of talent with the tools they need to bring their stories to life and share them with the world."
Applications open June 10, 2025, and are open to Canadian residents who are passionate about travel, storytelling, and digital content creation.
How to Enter:
We want to see what makes travel exciting to you. To apply, show us in a short, funny, and entertaining video (30 seconds or less) that would make someone say: "I need an all-inclusive. Like, now."
What to Do:
Create a video for social (TikTok, Instagram, Meta — any platform works!)
Show us your take on why travel is exciting — with humour and heart
Make it bold, fun and totally scroll-stopping
You don't need a huge following—just creativity, personality, and a love of storytelling.
"Canada is home to some of the most exciting, emerging creative talent, and with Canada's Next Top Creators, we're proud to give them a platform to shine," said Steph Ng, Vice President, Marketing at Sunwing Vacations Group. "This initiative goes beyond travel—it's about discovering and nurturing aspiring content creators, and giving them the tools, visibility and experience to turn their passion into something bigger. We're thrilled to help amplify their voices and celebrate Canadian creativity on a national stage."
Whether you're a rising TikTok star, a budding Instagram reel artist, a passionate storyteller or a skilled editor, this is your chance to break through, get noticed, and visit some of the most beautiful sun-drenched destinations in the process.
What's included:
All inclusive travel experiences with Sunwing Vacations
Cash payments
GoPro gear, and professional training
Sunwing-branded apparel
Mentorship from seasoned content experts
The contest begins on June 10, 2025, and applications are open to creators who are passionate about travel, content creation, and storytelling. For more details and to apply, visit www.Sunwing.ca/en/canada-next-top-creators-with-gopro/contest-form.
About Sunwing Vacations
As the leading vacation provider in Canada, Sunwing Vacations offers more vacation packages to the south than any other vacation provider with convenient direct service from cities across Canada to popular sun destinations across the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America. This scale enables Sunwing Vacations to offer customers exclusive deals at top-rated resorts in the most popular vacation destinations. Sunwing Vacations customers benefit from the assistance of our trusted partner in destination, NexusTours, whose representatives greet customers upon arrival and support them throughout their vacation journey. For more information, please visit sunwing.ca.
SOURCE Sunwing Vacations Inc.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
The Province
5 hours ago
- The Province
Connor McDavid's wife seemingly shades Florida Panthers: 'Why is Alberta rat-free?'
Lauren Kyle McDavid chimed in as the Florida Panthers were beating the Edmonton Oilers in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final Lauren Kyle McDavid, wife of Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid, posted a thinly veiled taunt at the Florida Panthers via Instagram after their convincing win in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final. Photo by Nick Kozak As the final fists were thrown and players were being ejected from Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final Monday night, the wife of the game's biggest star, the Edmonton Oilers' Connor McDavid, subtly chirped the Florida Panthers team on their way to a convincing 6-1 win. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors In a departure from her typically aesthetically curated and polished Instagram account, clothing and interior designer Lauren Kyle McDavid posted a screenshot of a Google Gemini AI response to her query: 'Why is Alberta rat-free?' The screenshot goes on to explain that a provincial program to monitor the Saskatchewan border, combined with strict enforcement and trapping, has led to the province being 'essentially rat-free' for 75 years. Rats are not even permitted as pets in Alberta, but are permitted at zoos, universities or for research purposes. Essential reading for hockey fans who eat, sleep, Canucks, repeat. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. However, for those unfamiliar, the rat has been an unofficial Panthers' mascot for 30 years, and, more recently, the term has been one of the many less savoury monikers applied to the Panthers' Brad Marchand, regarded by peers and critics as one of the most antagonistic and bothersome players in the NHL. He picked it up early in his career when drawing comparisons to Ken 'The Rat' Linesman, who played a similar style of hockey and famously bit the nose of Edmonton's Lee Fogolin in 1984. Opposing fans will insist the nickname also alludes to Marchand's nose, which also inspired another early sobriquet: Nose Face Killah, a play on Ghost Face Killah, a member of the rap group Wu-Tang Clan. Early in his career, Brad Marchand was dubbed the Nose Face Killah. Photo by Bruce Bennett / Getty Images The Nova Scotia native might be one of the few NHL players to have a nickname bestowed upon him by a sitting U.S. President. After the Boston Bruins won the 2011 Stanley Cup in Marchand's rookie year, Barack Obama referred to him as 'a little ball of hate' during the team's subsequent visit to the White House. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. As for how the club and its fan base embraced the rat as one of its symbols, you have to go back to the 1995 season when Panthers' forward Scott Mellanby used a slapshot to kill a rat found in the club's dressing room before a game. He went on to score two goals with the same stick that night, leading goalie John Vanbiesbrouck to later joke that his teammate had scored a 'rat trick' — a play on the hockey term for hat trick, when a player nets three goals in a game. The next time Mellanby scored on home ice, someone tossed a fake rat on the ice, and it soon became a practice that became entrenched in the team's run to the Stanley Cup Final in the spring of 1996, the year of the rat, on the Chinese zodiac. The NHL eventually instituted a rule against it, but some fans continue to do it after victories. According to the league, some fans are known to stock up on rubber or plastic rats at Halloween or order them in bulk online. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The tradition continued Monday night as dozens of plastic rats, along with refuse from the stands, rained down on the ice following a fight-filled Game 3. Fans throw rats onto the ice after the Florida Panthers beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-1 in Game Three of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final at Amerant Bank Arena on Monday in Sunrise, Fla. Photo by Bruce Bennett / Getty Images Appropriately, the Panthers' original mascot is Stanley C. Panther, but in 2014, the club introduced Viktor E. Ratt as a secondary mascot in homage to the unintentional rat legacy. Merchandise stores at Amerant Bank Arena sell t-shirts, hats and large gold chains with rats dangling from them. Kyle McDavid wasn't in Sunrise, Fla., to see the ice showered with debris. She, along with the wives and girlfriends of several other Oilers, were attending a bachelorette party in Greece for Celeste Desjardins, fiancée to Edmonton forward Leon Draisaitl, per Daily Hive Vancouver. But she has attended several playoff home games at Rogers Place. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'The energy is just unreal. Everyone's on edge, the fans are fully dialled in, and you can feel how much it means to people,' she told ELLE Canada during the Western Conference final against the Dallas Stars in late May. 'I love being part of that. It's emotional, exciting and a little chaotic in the best way.' Game 4 in the best-of-seven final is Thursday night, 8 p.m. ET, back at the Panthers' barn. Florida leads the series 2-1. Game 5 returns to Edmonton on Saturday night. Edmonton Oilers fans cheer against the Florida Panthers during the third period in Game One of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Place on June 04, 2025 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Photo by Steph Chambers / Getty Images Read More Vancouver Canucks Vancouver Whitecaps News News News
Global News
6 hours ago
- Global News
101-year-old man celebrates birthday parasailing on Okanagan Lake
For his 101st birthday, Arpan Szentpronai is gaining a fresh perspective. The centenarian, taking flight, was carried by a parasail as his friends and family cheered him on from the boat. His daughter, Sue Tarrant, says she isn't surprised her father has bested the Canadian life expectancy by 20 years. She says he has always been a survivor. 'He just keeps going — he's an amazing man, he is just very resilient,' said Tarrant. 'After high school, he went into the military (and) after the war, he was captured and spent two and a half years in a Siberian war camp.' 1:52 100-year-old B.C. swimmer blows the competition out of the water Tarrant says he immigrated to Canada in 1969 from Hungary with his family. Story continues below advertisement 'He had a great life here,' said Tarrant. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Having more life experience than many has given Szentpronai a unique perspective on life. With 101 years under his belt, he has some advice for the next generation. 'Young people are sick and weak because they want everything too much. They should cut everything off and just moderate and live life,' said Szentpronai. However, he may not be taking his own advice, because he is collecting record-breaking sails. He was the oldest customer of Okanagan Parasail last year, and broke his record this year. 'People think it's a thrill-seeking but really it's more like a Ferris wheel ride in the sky,' said Robert Wittmer, Okanagan Parasail owner. By the time Szentpronai is back on the boat, he's already planning to go up again on his birthday next year.
Toronto Star
6 hours ago
- Toronto Star
Carney's ‘Canada Strong Pass' to come into effect on June 20
OTTAWA - The federal government is set to announce details of its promised 'Canada Strong Pass' next week and the tourism initiative is expected to take effect later this month. A Liberal government spokesperson told The Canadian Press that the pass will be available from June 20 until the end of August. During the recent federal election, Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to introduce a single pass that would give young people under 18 free seats on Via Rail when travelling with their parents, and free access to Canada's national galleries and museums. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The Liberal platform said the party would also introduce 'heavily discounted' access to museums and galleries for Canadians aged 18 to 24. Carney, who pitched the idea as a way to unite Canadians in the face of threats from the U.S., said his government also would reduce prices for camping in national parks for all Canadians from June to August. Carney said during the campaign that Canadians would have free access to national parks and historic sites during the summer. The spokesperson said those promises will all be covered by the 'Canada Strong Pass.' A spokesperson for Via Rail Canada said the national passenger rail service is 'proud' to support the plan as it encourages young Canadians and their families to discover the country. The government spokesperson said details of the initiative will be announced in the coming days. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW In 2017, Via Rail offered unlimited travel passes for youth during the month of July to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday. While the organization said it planned originally to make 1,867 passes available, it extended the offer due to high demand and more than 4,000 Canadians purchased passes. Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Steven Guilbeault's director of communications said there has been an 'incredible show of unity' from Canadians since the beginning of the year. 'We look forward to delivering on our commitment to the Canada Strong Pass to make it even easier for Canadian families to choose Canada as they plan their summer travels,' Alisson Lévesque said. Politics Headlines Newsletter Get the latest news and unmatched insights in your inbox every evening Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. There was a problem with the recaptcha. Please try again. Please enter a valid email address. Sign Up Yes, I'd also like to receive customized content suggestions and promotional messages from the Star. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Politics Headlines Newsletter You're signed up! You'll start getting Politics Headlines in your inbox soon. Want more of the latest from us? Sign up for more at our newsletter page.
