2019 North America Awards

Pinnacle Award – This award recognizes the best all-around preferred partner for the past year in terms of agency and headquarters sales support, product offerings, innovative programs and overall contributions to the membership.

-Globus Family of Brands

Outstanding Sales Support – This award is presented to our top all-around preferred partner that delivers excellence and best in class sales support with an energetic and innovative approach to field sales, sales methodologies and support solutions.

-Royal Caribbean International

Sales Achievement – This award honors a supplier partner that has exhibited excellence and a long-term commitment to offering the sales, service and training support needed to help member agencies achieve outstanding sales growth.

-Viking Cruises

Outstanding Luxury Partner – This award honors a supplier partner that has provided outstanding levels of support to luxury travel advisors and luxury guests, helping to ensure a consistent, high-quality experience.

-Crystal Cruises

Distinctive Voyages Cruise Line Partner of the Year – This award recognizes a supplier partner that has shown exceptional participation in the network’s “Distinctive Voyages” program, which includes hundreds of sailings throughout the world that feature exclusive, complimentary amenities.

-Celebrity Cruises

For 2019, Travel Leaders Network re-introduced its Belong, Inspire, Grow awards, which recognize supplier partners for outstanding innovation, excellence, support and sales.

Those award recipients for the U.S. are:

Belong Award – The Belong Award is recognizing a supplier partner that has shown an outstanding commitment to cultivating relationships, providing exceptional agency training and delivering enhanced programs and dedicated service to member agencies to help them succeed.

-GOGO Vacations

Inspire Award – The Inspire Award is honoring a supplier partner that inspires Travel Leaders Network members with new products, practices and resources. It is being given this year to a cruise line for the introduction of a game-changing cruise ship that introduced a wide range of innovation in accommodations, public areas, tender boarding, crew diversity and a reduction in the use of plastics.

-Celebrity Cruises for Celebrity Edge

Grow Award – The Grow Award is recognizing a supplier partner that has shown significant growth in market share and the ability to turn a vision into a remarkable reality, as well as demonstrating commitment to a forward-thinking, genuine partnership that will continue to grow and inspire.

-Universal Orlando Resort

“Congratulations to all of our supplier partner award winners on these very well-deserved honors,” said Roger E. Block, CTC, President of Travel Leaders Network. “We value each and every one of our preferred suppliers and these awards serve to recognize the depth of our appreciation for our most outstanding partners.”

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