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This week, Cruise Planners, kicked off its first in-person “Sales Training to Accelerate Results University”, or STAR University, in more than a year with enhanced safety protocols, such as smaller classes, social distancing and mask wearing. (more…)
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Atlas Ocean Voyages announced today that the luxe-adventure expedition cruise brand has been named an approved supplier of Cruise Planners, the nation’s largest home-based Travel Advisor franchise network and an American Express Travel Representative. (more…)
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Cruise Planners has always provided a free platform offering creative and visually-appealing social media content for its network of travel advisors that is automatically published several times a week – called CP Social. Recently, upgraded, the platform offers even more flexibility. (more…)
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During the latest Where2Next Virtual Event, Once Upon A River, Cruise Planners invited consumers to tour the world’s rivers with AmaWaterways, American Cruise Lines and Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection. (more…)
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Early in the year, Cruise Planners committed to providing a comprehensive internship experience to prepare young adults of various abilities for independence and job readiness in partnership with the Dan Marino Foundation’s Marino Campus. (more…)
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Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, signals their travel advisors as they get ready to connect for its first-ever Cruise Planners Forum, Virtually Yours. The two-day event is expected to have one of their largest attendance records as the nation’s largest network of home-based travel advisors register from all 50 states. (more…)
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Cruise Planners recently launched a new “All-Inclusive Resort System” to help its travel advisor network sell more land-based travel. (more…)
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Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, in partnership with major travel suppliers, launched the Where2Next Travel Series, a lineup of dazzling destination-focused virtual travel events. (more…)
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Despite hundreds of thousands of cancelled vacations and extended travel restrictions well into the summer months due to Covid-19 pandemic, there are some rays of sunshine for travelers considering their options for future travel. (more…)
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Michelle Fee, CEO and Founder, and Vicky Garcia, COO and Co-owner at Cruise Planners, hosted a virtual press conference sharing what is happening at Cruise Planners and across the travel industry in response to COVID-19. (more…)
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Cruise Planners announced changes to its executive team with a reorganization designed to better support its nationwide network of travel advisors. This will further set Cruise Planners franchise owners up for success on their journey through franchise ownership. (more…)
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Cruise Planners educational and fun-filled “Mission Possible” Convention in Hollywood, Fla. continues inspiring travel advisors to make their impossible 2020 goals possible on day two of its annual Convention. (more…)
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Cruise Planners kicked off its highly anticipated annual Convention in Hollywood, Fla. at The Diplomat Beach Resort with more than 700 Cruise Planners® travel advisors and hundreds of trade partners. Its 26th year Convention theme is Mission Possible, inspiring the network to identify their mission and make it possible. (more…)
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The year 2020 will be a year of new beginnings, renewals, opportunities and a year of travel discovery and exploration. “The constant FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) is very real and afflicts many travelers and aspiring travelers especially with the ‘Insta-effect’ of today’s social media driven generation,” says Michelle Fee, CEO and founder of Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative. (more…)
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Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, is always looking for ways to strengthen and grow its relationships with industry partners. (more…)
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Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, announced it has enhanced capability to micro-target direct mail and email marketing efforts. (more…)
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Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, hosted its second annual Land Symposium at the all-inclusive Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The three-day workshop was organized for 150 Cruise Planner Travel Advisors and more than 45 suppliers. (more…)
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Cruise Planners recently launched all new travel advisor websites with three different visual treatments featuring unique content for travel advisors to choose from. These different website options provide our advisors with the flexibility of operating multiple websites; each with their own theme. (more…)
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Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative wins the most awards at the World’s Leading Cruise Lines Excellence Awards taking home four Franchise Agency Network Excellence Awards for Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises and Seabourn. (more…)
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Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, the nation’s largest travel agent network with more than 2,500 travel advisors in all 50 states, recently hosted their 2019 Luxury and River Cruise Forum at Secrets the Vine in Cancún, Mexico. (more…)
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Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, is thrilled to announce the promotion of Theresa Scalzitti to Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. (more…)
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Cruise Planners Ribbon Cutting – Home Office in Coral Springs
Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, hosted its official ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new corporate headquarters yesterday (Feb.12), which boasts a modern, sleek and Google-inspired design with semi-open collaboration spaces. (more…)
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Playing “The Greatest Showman,” Scott Koepf, vice president of strategic development, Cruise Planners, commanded the stage at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood Beach, FL, on Tuesday — attired in a ringmaster’s costume that would have made P. T. Barnum proud. (travelagentcentral.com)
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Cruise Planners®, an American Express Travel Representative, has once again earned a spot on Inc. magazine’s 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. Cruise Planners has been ranked six years in a row with a three-year growth of 69 percent. (more…)
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With more responsive design, CP Maxx, the new proprietary booking and customer relationship management (CRM) tool for Cruise Planners franchises, has already increased the agents’ engagement with Cruise Planners’ headquarters (called Home Office) by 22 percent. (travelagentcentral.com)
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Last year, Cruise Planners had the strongest sales year in its history. “You all have taken it to the ‘max,'” Michelle Fee, the organization’s co-founder and CEO, emphatically told agents attending the opening session of the Cruise Planners mid-year conference at the Broward County Convention Center at Port Everglades, FL, on Sunday. (travelagentcentral.com)
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Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, welcomes Scott Koepf as Vice President of Strategic Development to the nation’s leading home-based travel agency network. (more…)
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From the 2018 Travvy Awards, Cruise Planners happily took home two statues: the gold for Best Travel Agency Consortium Cooperative or Franchise Group and the silver for Best Travel Technology Provider. (travelpulse.com)
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Cruise Planners CP Maxx™ Rollout
Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, rolled out its newest proprietary technology solution, CP Maxx™, a next-generation booking and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system exclusively for its travel agent network. (more…)
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With dozens of new ships coming online in the next five years, the cruise industry is in serious growth mode. That translates to job security for travel agents, since cruise lines depend on agents to sell their products, said Vicki Freed, Royal Caribbean International’s senior vice president of sales, trade support and service. (travelmarketreport.com)
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At this year’s Cruise Planners convention in Cancun, Mexico, the organization announced a new artificial intelligence program that includes the development of two Alexa Skills compatible with Amazon devices, billed as the first artificial intelligence program for home-based travel agents. (travelagentcentral.com)
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Cruise Planners is posting double digit sales increases when comparing the year-to-date 2017 sales against the organization’s record sales year in 2016. (travelagentcentral.com)
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Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, recently invited its top-producing travel advisors from the Cruise Planners franchise network on an exclusive week-long trip to the Galapagos Islands. (travelagentcentral.com)
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Entrepreneur Magazine has named Cruise Planners to its 2017 Best of the Best list, making it the only travel franchise to appear on the 2017 list. The Best of the Best list recognizes elite franchises that ranked at the top of their industry categories in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500. (travelagentcentral.com)
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Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, will be hosting its annual convention at The Grand at Moon Palace in Cancun, Mexico October 15-19, 2017. (more…)
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Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, is making it easy for franchise owners to grow their businesses by introducing a new virtual associate training program. (more…)
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For the first time, Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, has united with Celebrity Cruises and The Wedding Experience to create an interactive wedding expo event on board. (more…)
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This month, Stacy Lowman joined the team in a new role created to heighten the focus on travel agent and internal training and development. In his new role, Lowman will lead a seasoned training team charged with redesigning the training platform, Cruise Planners University (CPU).
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Norwegian Cruise Line just announced that for the first time, Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, won the Elite Travel Agency of the Year Award. This is the highest award from the cruise line. (more…)
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Cruise Planners agents who have been with the franchise agency group for more than three years book an average of $747,000 of travel per year. That’s up from $620,000 last year and $524,000 the year before. (travelagentcentral.com)
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