FL, HOLYWOOD – Scenic Group USA is kicking off Travel Advisor Appreciation Month with the launch of their new trade focused campaign – Partners in Travel – as well as celebrating the contribution of valued travel advisors with bonus commissions and giveaways of free luxury river and ocean cruises – air included. This is done in appreciation of the travel industry’s hard-working travel advisors and all they do to promote Scenic Luxury Cruises & Tours and Emerald Cruises.
Ken Muskat, Managing Director of Scenic Group USA, said, “We are incredibly grateful for the hard work and dedication our travel partners have shown our two brands throughout both the toughest of years and our more recent strong recovery.” We wanted to develop a campaign for our travel advisors that encapsulated our relationship with them and helped them expand their businesses while we increased brand recognition in the US market. What better time to launch our Partners in Travel campaign than during Travel adviser Appreciation Month? It aims to reinforce our commitment to the travel adviser community.
New deposited reservations made between May 1 and May 31, 2023, will earn travel agents an extra $100 commission per cabin for river cruises and $250 for ocean cruises as part of the month-long celebration. For each booking, they will also receive one entry into the “Win a Free Cruise” drawing, with two winners and guests sailing on the luxurious Scenic Eclipse II from Portland, Maine on October 13, 2023 for an 11-night trip to the Atlantic Islands and the Caribbean, and one winner and guest sailing on the luxurious Emerald Cruises Danube Delights between Regensburg and Budapest on July 8, 2023. flight included. The winners will be selected at random from all submissions, so the more reservations you make, the better your chances are.
Scenic and Emerald Cruises have both increased their per-person discount offers to $400 and $250, respectively, for travel advisers who specialise in group reservations on rivers. These offers are valid for new group agreements on all European and Southeast Asian river cruises departing in 2023–May 2025. Participating guests may save $250 on Scenic and $200 on Emerald Cruises thanks to new ocean group arrangements.
Additionally, the business provides a wealth of resources for travel advisors, such as ExpressBook, an Agent Academy (which may result in higher commissions), an image library, a social media posts kit, and more.
Over the course of its 37-year existence, Scenic Group, which consists of Emerald Cruises, Scenic Luxury Cruises & Tours, Mayflower Cruises & Tours, and Evergreen Tours, has expanded to include award-winning river and ocean cruises as well as handcrafted land journeys that take travellers to many of the world’s most fascinating locations on all seven continents.
Since 2008, Scenic has been the industry leader in providing genuinely all-inclusive, five-star river cruises across Europe, Southeast Asia, and on private luxury charters on the Nile in Egypt. With the launch of Scenic Eclipse, The World’s First Discovery Yacht, a 228-guest ultra-luxury ship in 2019, and Scenic Eclipse II, its sister ship, in 2023, Scenic continued to uphold its dedication to setting new standards for the cruise industry while introducing a number of innovative features.
Nine Star-Ships under the Emerald Cruises brand provide river cruises throughout Europe and on the Mekong. Emerald Azzurra, a 100-guest superyacht that will cruise the warm seas of the Mediterranean, Adriatic, Caribbean, and Central America, was the first vessel to launch under the Emerald Cruises brand in 2022. Emerald Sakara, her sister ship, will follow in August 2023.
Source: traveldailynews