Travel & Accommodations
• Save on hotels with Rendez-vous special rates
• Air Travel - Save with Air Canada
• Rail Transport - Save with Via Rail
• Ottawa Airport
• Ground Transportation, Accessibility and Parking
• Visit Ottawa!
• Honouring the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation
HOTELS IN OTTAWA
Rendez-vous 2026 is pleased to offer special conference rates at these hotels. Book your accommodation early!
Hotels
DoubleTree by Hilton Downtown Ottawa
33 Nicholas St, Ottawa, ON K1N 9M7
Toll Free: +1 613-230-3033 | YOWOD_DT_Hotel@hilton.com
Start Date: Thursday, August 09, 2026
End Date: Wednesday, August 16, 2026
Rate: $179.00 CAD Per Night (plus fees and taxes)
Inclusions:
- Complimentary high-speed internet in the rooms.
- Fridges in all the rooms. A communal microwave is available in the lobby for guest use.
- Indoor pool, fitness center, restaurant and bar.
Special rate deadline: July 09, 2026
→ Click here to book online now
Phone Reservations: Guests can call the hotel directly to make a room reservation. Please use the production name “CITT/ICTS Rendez-vous 2026” to receive the special rate.
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Les Suites Hôtel Ottawa
130 Besserer St, Ottawa, ON K1N 9M9
Tel: (613) 232-2000 | Fax: (613) 232-1242 | Reachout@les-suites.com
Start Date: Thursday, August 11, 2026
End Date: Wednesday, August 16, 2026
Rate:
- Modern One Bedroom Suites: $239/night (single/double occupancy) - Room details
- Modern Executive One Bedroom Suites: $269/night (single/double occupancy) - Room details
- Modern Two Bedroom Suites: $339/night (single/double occupancy) - Room details
Inclusions:
- Rates subject to applicable taxes.
- $25/night for each additional person
- Parking if required is an additional $33.00CAN/day (plus applicable tax) with unlimited in/out access.
- Complimentary Wireless High Speed Internet.
Special rate deadline: June 30, 2026
→ Click here to book online now
Reservations can also be made by calling/emailing the hotel directly:
Reservations: (613) 232-2000
Toll free: (800) 267-1989
By email: iv411.rescoor@innvesthotels.com
→ PLEASE QUOTE GROUP ID CODE: 137860
AIR TRAVEL
CITT/ICTS's Official Airline
- Participants can obtain a 5% discount on standard fares / 10% discount on Flex and higher fares for flights within North America / 10% discount on standard and higher fares for international flights reservations. No discount will apply to Tango bookings for travel within Canada or between Canada and the U.S. For International travel (destinations outside North America), discounts apply to all fares including Tango. For details on the discount applied to the different fares click here or visit Air Canada's Meetings and Events page.
- To book a flight with your promotion code, access aircanada.com and enter the promotion code TO COME in the Promotion Code located in the flight reservation panel.
- The booking is to be made to the following city: Ottawa, YOW (CA)
- The travel period begins (...). Travel is valid Monday to Sunday.
- No discount will apply to Standard and Basic rates bookings for travel within Canada or between Canada and the U.S. However, all bookings made using the promotion code will count toward the minimum 10 passenger requirement for Meetings and Conventions events.
- No discount will apply to Tango bookings for travel within Canada or between Canada and the U.S.
- Eligible Tickets. A ticket is eligible for the discount provided it has been purchased on aircanada.com, and provided the Promotion Code has been applied at time of purchase. Any ticket not purchased on aircanada.com for the purposes of travel to an Event will not qualify for any benefits provided by the Meetings and Conventions Product. A ticket purchased on aircanada.com but for which the applicable Promotion Code was not entered or was entered incorrectly will not be eligible for the Discount.
- Discount. The Discount is applied to the fare at the time that the travel ticket with Air Canada is purchased. The Discount and the fare are subject to all applicable taxes and surcharges.
For website assistance or to reserve by phone, please call Air Canada directly at 1 800 361-7585.
RAIL TRANSPORT
Take the train to Halifax and save 10% on the best fare!
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Fare applies to a maximum of two passengers per booking.
One complimentary stopover is allowed at no additional charge.
For travel on all fare plans in Business class, the first stopover is allowed at no additional charge, provided that this stopover takes place in Toronto, Montréal or Ottawa only.
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| IDENTIFICATION | Participants must reference the event’s VIA convention discount code: TO COME | |
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Airport information
Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport (YOW)
1000 Airport Parkway Private, Ottawa, ON K1V 9B4
Phone: (613) 248-2000 | info@skyxe.ca
Website: https://www.yow.ca/
Ground Transportation and Accessibility
Parking at the airport
Visit this page for complete information about parking at the airport.
Pick-up and drop-off
The arrivals and departures curbs are reserved for active loading and unloading only. Active loading and unloading means immediate loading and unloading of persons and their belongings upon arrival at the curb.
Drivers should wait in the Cell Phone Lot for their passenger as vehicles are not permitted to park/wait along either curb. Our security team is vigilant and works to keep traffic moving and will refer drivers to the Cell Phone Lot to wait for their passenger(s).
Vehicles may not, under any circumstance, be left unattended in these areas. Infractions will be issued and vehicles will be towed if left unattended.
Visit this page for complete information about pick-up and drop-off at the airport.
Ground transportation from airport
For your safety, it is recommended using Airport-authorized transportation services.
Passenger loading is not permitted on Level 3, the “Departures” level. All licensed transportation is located on Level 1, the "Arrivals" level.
For more information, please visit the Parking and Ground Transportation service office, located on Level 1 of the Parkade (P1) in the rental car corridor, or call 613-248-4304 or email Impark@yow.ca.
Visit this page for complete information about ground transportation from the airport.
Public transportation to and from airport
OC Transpo is the public transit provider in Ottawa. Transit fares can be purchased from the ticket machine located at the South end on Level 1, or outside the O-Train station on Level 3.
- Runs 24 hours a day, every 30 minutes
- Day service: between Uplands Drive, serving the airport, and St-Laurent Station
- Night service: north of Hurdman Station will run to/from Rideau Station
- Bus fare can be paid on board in cash, or by tapping a Presto card, credit card, debit card, or mobile device.
- Runs from 6:00 am to midnight
- Connects the Airport station to the South Keys station
- Train fare can be paid at fare gates by tapping or scanning a ticket, Presto card, debit card, or mobile device.
Private transportation companies
Hotel shuttles: Pillars 13-15
Taxi - pick-up: The queue forms outside the centre door. Fully accessible vehicles are available upon request - please speak to the on-site attendant.
Taxi - drop-off: Level 3 (Departures)
Ridesharing: Pillars 12 and 13 (pick up and drop-off along curb furthest from terminal)
Charter bus: Pillars 15-16
Park'N Fly: Pillars 15-16
Pre-arranged service (ex. luxury vehicle, patient transfer): Pillars 12-13
Unless otherwise indicated, passengers are picked up and dropped off at the curb along the road closest to the terminal outside Level 1.
Car rentals at the airport
View the list of available rental companies here: https://www.yow.ca/parking-transportation/car-rentals
Accessibility at the airport
Visit the Ottawa Airport Accessibility webpage for complete information.
Public Transit in Ottawa
OC Transpo
Public transit in Canada’s capital: schedules, routes, fares, travel planner, service updates...
Para Transpo is a shared-ride, book-in-advance, public transit service. The service is open to eligible customers who are unable to take conventional transit (buses and O-Train) some or all of the time due to a disability. It is funded by the City of Ottawa and administered by OC Transpo. Para Transpo provides minibus and contracted taxi services in Ottawa’s urban communities.
Presto
PRESTO is an electronic payment system that eliminates the need for tickets, tokens, passes and cash. PRESTO works across local transit in the Greater Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa areas, which makes paying for your trip simple, convenient and secure. Get a card, activation, account management, load a pass, load funds, check balance...
O-Train
The O-Train costs the same as the bus. You can also transfer between buses and trains at no extra cost. From families to daily commuters, we have fare options to suit any kind of rider. Skip expensive parking by using free OC Transpo Park & Rides close to home. Lines and stations, latest news, virtual tours...
Parking in Ottawa
Municipal lots and on-street parking:
Visit this page to view complete information about parking in Ottawa.
Visit Ottawa!
The traditional homelands and territories of the Algonquin Peoples from time immemorial, Ottawa’s landscape boasts of fresh water from the Rideau Canal, magnificent mountainous terrain and provincial parks, with entertainment, attractions, cultural destinations and shopping districts built to impress; it’s a perfect city for visitors who enjoy walking from destination to destination.
To learn more about must see attractions, the best places to eat and visit, and everything else you need to know about Ottawa, click here.
You may also browse the Arts, heritage and events webpage from the City of Ottawa website.
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Honouring the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation
Ottawa is built on un-ceded Anishinabe Algonquin territory.
The CITT/ICTS acknowledges and honors the Anishinabe Algonquin peoples who have lived on this territory for millennia. Their culture and presence have nurtured this land, and continue to do so.
Who Are the Anishinaabeg?
The Anishinaabeg are a large group of Indigenous people that span all the way from Quebec right through to the Rocky Mountains all the way down to Oklahoma up through to Ottawa.
The Anishinaabeg are also organized into other groups including: Naakowe, Mississauga, Odishwaagaamii’ininiwag, Amikwaa, Boodiwaadmi, Ojibwe, Odaawa.
- The Anishinaabeg territory spans across a large geographic area and is very diverse.
- The lands and waters can not be owned but rather looked after.
- The Anishinaabeg have roles and responsibilities to care for each other as well as the lands, waters and all of creation.
- These roles and responsibilities are outlined in Chi-Naaknigewin and other laws that are part of the governing system of the Anishinaabeg.
- The territory that the Anishinaabeg occupy is shared between many other Indigenous nations even prior to European contact with agreements outlining each other’s roles and responsibilities.
- Agreements were made with the early settlers and their colonial governments to share the land. These agreements outlined the terms and conditions for land sharing.
- The British and later Canada used the treaty making process to illegally steal and occupy Anishinaabeg territory.
- Canada created laws such as the Indian Act to justify the theft of land and genocide of the Anishinaabeg.
- Today the Anishinaabeg are seeking to reassert their jurisdiction over their lands and recover from the attempts of genocide.
- The Anishinaabeg never ceded or surrendered their lands.
Learn more on the Union of Ontario Indians website.
The Anishinabek - Time immemorial and 7 October 1763
From The Historical Society of Ottawa website.
Canada is widely viewed as a young country, its history stretching back no more than a few hundred years to the arrival of French and British settlers to its shores. But this is a very blinkered view of things. The territory that we now call Canada was not terra nullius when the Europeans arrived, far from it. It was instead populated by a diverse group of Indigenous peoples with their own cultures, traditions and languages from the Pacific Ocean in the west, to the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the north, the Great Lakes in the south, and to the Atlantic Ocean in the east. Pre-contact population estimates vary widely, but modern estimates place the population of the Pacific Northwest alone at as much as 500,000.
One, therefore, wonders what the population of the entire territory that was to become Canada might have been. Sadly, European traders and settlers brought diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native population had little or no resistance. Whole communities were virtually wiped out within a short period of time. By 1867, the Canadian Indigenous population had fallen to about 125,000 souls, out of a total Canadian population of about 3.7 million, and was to continue to fall for decades after.
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It was Samuel de Champlain who popularized the name for these indigenous peoples—the “Algoumequins” a.k.a. the Algonquins. But the people knew themselves as the Anishinabek, sometimes translated as true men, or good humans.
Following first contact with Europeans at the beginning of the seventeenth century, many eastern First Nations became embroiled in the seemingly endless conflicts between European powers for political and economic ascendancy in North America. The semi-nomadic Algonquins, who were superb hunters and trappers, became key partners with the French in the European fur trade. They supplied pelts from their own extensive territories in the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Valleys, or acted as middlemen for the Cree to the north. In exchange, the Algonquins received firearms that they used to defend themselves from their traditional rivals, the Iroquois First Nations, who were important allies of Dutch settlers to the south, and subsequently the English. Continue reading
Indigenous culture in Ottawa - Consider visiting these:
Mādahòkì Farm
Experience authentic Indigenous culture at Mādahòkì Farm — located on the traditional and unceded territories of the Algonquin peoples and their descendants. The farm exemplifies the importance of sustainability, community engagement and cultural preservation.
Beandigen Cafe
Beandigen Cafe is an Ojibwe coffee shop located in the heart of Lansdowne, in the trendy Glebe neighbourhood. Entrepreneurs Paula Naponse and daughter Jayde — Anishinabe Kwe from the Atikameksheng Anishinawbek First Nation near Sudbury, Ontario — created the unique space as a community for both Indigenous people and their supporters.
Adaawewigamig
Adaawewigamig has a storefront in Ottawa’s ByWard Market neighbourhood that specializes in authentic Indigenous products created by a variety of Indigenous-owned brands. Here, you can also experience jewellery making and painting workshops. Adaawewigamig also provides a wide range of services to support Indigenous communities and businesses across Canada.
Beaded Dreams
Located on Bank Street, Beaded Dreams specializes in traditional Indigenous beadwork and jewellery. The store offers a wide range of products, including earrings, necklaces, bracelets and accessories, all of which are handmade using traditional techniques and locally sourced materials.
