Fort Smith, N.W.T., travel service aims to be the Expedia of the North

Booking travel in the North isn’t always straightforward, but a new travel agency in Fort Smith, N.W.T., hopes to change that and potentially improve medical travel across the territory.

Rashmi Patel and Mildred Martin created Wintergreen Travel two years ago. They had seen a noticeable gap in medical travel management and wanted to help fill it.

Now, they are expanding and want to simplify travel for all Northerners — not just medical travel but also for leisure or work — by developing an online platform they describe as a northern version of Expedia.

Patel and Martin’s website will allow travellers to book flights, hotels, and local activities in one place. Martin said that the idea is to improve the travel booking process in the North, particularly in smaller communities.

“So that way, the smaller airline, the smaller accommodation providers in the communities, they would all just be on one platform,” Patel said. “And we’d be able to book everything easily, in one…