Cruise Traveller has launched The Small Ship Collective, a new custom web solution designed to help travel agent grow their cruise business and make them a small ship cruise specialist.The platform is a first for the small ship cruise sector in Australia, timed to help agents benefit from rising, post-COVID interest in smaller vessels carrying fewer than 500 passengers.
Agents in the Small Ship Collective group will also enjoy preferred commissions on Cruise Traveller-provided products, specialist training for their teams, famil opportunities, preferred cancellation and amendment conditions and a priority, toll- free reservations number to Cruise Traveller.
The Small Ship Collective offers agents a personalised website and branded with their own logo. The cruise content platform can be tailored by the agent to feature the cruise lines and destinations they choose and can also include auto price feeds direct from large ship cruise lines, creating a complete cruise solution for independent agents. Including extensive support and training from Cruise Traveller, The Small Ship Collective offers a complete toolkit for agents to sell small ships to their clients, including back-end banners for marketing.
A Small Ship Collective personalised site also gives agents the ability to include large ships from mainstream and boutique cruise lines in their product range. This gives cruise specialist agents a truly comprehensive portfolio of itineraries to their guests.
“Small ships definitely offer agents new and bigger revenue sources,” said Cruise Traveller Managing Director, Craig Bowen. “It’s lucrative, low volume, high-yield business that any agent can now tap into via The Small Ship Collective, which offers agents a complete suite of tools to quickly make them a professional in the small ship market. Importantly, The Small Ship Collective is not designed as a direct booking engine but as a springboard to get potential clients off the internet and onto the phone with an agent, building personal customer loyalty at a time when agents need it most.
“The Small Ship Collective is a milestone evolution in our 18-year journey at Cruise Traveller – an affordable service I’ve long wanted to offer the industry and I feel now is the perfect time to launch it so that we can all grow the incredible potential of small ship cruising together.”
The Small Ship Collective is offered with a one-off administration cost of $250 plus GST and low monthly fees of $180 plus GST and there is a rebate structure on offer to potentially reduce these fees to zero based on easily achievable targets. There are also no hidden costs.
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