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Award-winning Toronto travel writer Lucy Izon has been published for 30 years in leading North American newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel.

She creates and maintains CanadaCool.com while continuing to produce freelance travel stories for leading newspapers and magazines, and speaking to groups about what makes Toronto 'Cool'. (SAMPLE VIDEO)

She is the author of Izon's Backpacker Journal & Canadian Traveller's Trip Planner (TVO), plus contributing author to Thomas Cook's Touring Eastern Canada and contributor to Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul.

She has served as both Canadian Chapter Chair and Vice President of the Society of American Travel Writers, and she is a member of the Travel Media Association of Canada.

Izon is also the 2005 award-winner for 'Travel Journalism in the U.S. Market' from the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership.

She is one of five women chosen by Celebrity Cruises to help design new spacious staterooms for the Celebrity Solstice (click on accommodation and learn about Celebrity's Leading Ladies). The ship will launch November 2008.

In 2000 Izon partnered with the Canadian Goverment's Millennium Bureau to create a national travel writing and photography competition for Canadians ages 18-26, to celebrate the Millennium and to encourage young Canadians to explore their country.

You can contact Lucy Izon at lucy@canadacool.com, or write to Canada Cool, 160 Balmoral Ave. #903, Toronto, ON M4V 1J7, telephone: 416 964-2070.