The Network offers cruise sellers the best options to make more money, delight clients

NEW YORK (February 12, 2025) – For sellers of cruise, Travel Leader Network offers the most comprehensive array of cruise programs and tools, designed to easily book cruises across a wide array of preferred supplier partners, and to market exclusive cruise offerings to clients. With Cruise Complete, Empower Cruise, Distinctive Voyages, Amenity Departure Dates and the Culinary Collection, Travel Leaders members are able to entice, book and reap the advantages of working with the Network’s cruise programs to build their agencies’ sales.

“Cruise lines are continuing to put new ships in the water and have new ship orders in for years to come,” said John Lovell, CTC, President of Travel Leaders Network. “Cruising is hotter than ever, and Travel Leaders gives our members more ways to boost their cruise sales with our programs.”

For 2025, Travel Leaders Network will continue to offer its popular Amenity Departure Dates, Distinctive Voyages and Culinary Collection. Each offering is curated to let members give their clients something that cannot be found elsewhere.

Amenity Departure Dates is the program where, on specific partner sailings, members can offer their clients shipboard credit, free specialty dining and/or prepaid gratuities at no extra cost. This “surprise and delight” offering enhances the cruise and cements the member in the client’s mind as an expert professional. Distinctive Voyages brings cruising to the next level with a Distinctive Voyages host (typically a Travel Leaders Network member), a welcome reception and a Distinctive Voyages-only shore excursion included in the sailing. Travel Leaders Network is proud to announce that Crystal Cruises has rejoined Amenity Departure Dates and Distinctive Voyages for 2025.

A new partner has also become part of the Culinary Collection, Travel Leaders’ cruise space program for voyages focusing on food and wine. This could include anything from onboard cooking classes, kitchen tours, farmers markets at port stops, and wine tastings. Explora Journeys is the newest Culinary Collection partner.

“We’re thrilled to have Crystal Cruises and Explora Journeys as part of our cruise space programs,” said Lovell. “They are fantastic lines beloved by cruisers and will fit in well with these programs.”

When it comes to booking cruises, Travel Leaders continues its goal of making complex programs simple for the member user. Cruise Complete is an intuitive booking tool where members can easily show clients comparisons of sailings, earn enhanced commissions and easily find cruise space programs like Amenity Departure Dates. As Cruise Complete and SNAP (Travel Leaders’ graphical air, hotel and car booking tool) are a single sign-on from Agent Universe, members can service their traveler by booking cruise, air and pre- and post-cruise stays.

For Travel Leaders Network members booking cruise lines they normally don’t work with, Travel Leaders offers Empower Cruise. Empower Cruise gives the user access to enhanced commission rates with Travel Leaders’ cruise suppliers. By using Empower Cruise, members can book their clients where they want to sail, and not miss out on any commission.

“Most of the time, using Cruise Complete makes sense for our members,” Lovell explained. “But we know that there will always be a time a client wants to sail on a line they sell very little, if any, of. That is where Empower Cruise comes in: members can use it to get higher commissions, even on their very first booking with a cruise line. We want our members to be making as much money as possible when selling cruise, and between our cruise space programs and booking tools, we believe that Travel Leaders is putting more money in their pockets.”

For travel agencies interested in learning more about the award-winning programs and diverse offerings of Travel Leaders Network in leisure and luxury travel, business travel, honeymoon and destination weddings — as well as active and adventure travel — visit TravelLeadersNetwork.com.

About Travel Leaders Network

Travel Leaders Network (www.TravelLeaders.com), an Internova Travel Group company, assists millions of leisure and business travelers annually and is one of the largest sellers of luxury travel, cruises and tours in the travel agency industry, with approximately 5,700 travel agency locations across the United States and Canada.