Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin No travel industry segment was hit as hard by Covid pandemic shutdowns as cruise lines. However, just a bit more than two years after the U.S.
Center for Disease Control dropped its health warning about vacationing on the high seas, times are buoyant. Once again, executives say popular sailings sell out months and, in some cases, more than a year in advance. A new itinerary to Norway’s fjords for 2025 is nearly sold out, an executive with Seadream Yacht Club told travel advisors attending Virtuoso Travel Week , which started Saturday in Las Vegas.
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. [+] advisors the finer points on enhancements. The session, which took place at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, is part of luxury travel group Virtuoso's annual Travel Week.
Its 20,000 advisors sell $35 billion in luxury travel annually. Doug Gollan The conference, which draws around 5,000 travel professionals and spans MGM’s Bellagio and Aria hotels, brings together network travel agencies and suppliers vying for their share of the $35 billion in travel Virtuoso advisors sell annually. Ten-minute presentations on the cruise track combine updates on new ships, amenities, and incentives from the lines designed to sway advisors to book their ships.
“We sold virtually no cruises before the pandemic,” says Fernardo Gonzalez, CEO of F1rst In Service Travel . Now, luxur.