Cruise World Travel Weekly

Description For today’s buyers and sellers of travel, CruiseWorld is the premier program to attend. Only an industry leader like Travel Weekly can deliver such a valuable, all-encompassing experience. Travel Weekly's CruiseWorld is the definitive event for anyone interested in making more money selling cruise vacations! For over 50 years, travel professionals have relied on Travel Weekly for the news, research, education and information they need to continue to grow their business. Today, Travel Weekly has a reach of more than 109,000 travel professionals through its print and digital portfolio. Attendees of CruiseWorld, a Travel Weekly event, are the same top-producing agents. These agents represent a wide range of backgrounds and business models, specializations and niches. The home based agent population, which focuses overwhelmingly on leisure travel, reached more than 45,000 in 2014, up from 31,000 in 2006. Along with their increasing numbers, home based agents now account for a substantial portion of agency leisure sales - in 2013, home based agents sold nearly US$11 billion in travel. Traditional agencies account for one third of travel bookings in the U.S., and today's travel agents are reinventing themselves to stay relevant and competitive. Traditional travel agencies accounted for nearly US$98 billion in travel sales in 2014, or one third of the $310 billion U.S. travel market. Leisure agencies tend to specialize in more complex leisure products such as vacation packages and cruises that are more challenging to book online.