Cruise Planners Celebrates National Cruise Vacation Month with Exclusive Deals

Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, the nations largest home-based travel agent franchise network in the industry, has created a month-long celebration called Worlds Largest Cruise Event (WLCE). Cruise Planners has taken Cruise Lines International Associations (CLIA) National Cruise Vacation Week, which runs October 6-13, 2014, to the next level by offering incredible values and exclusive cruise promotions that are applicable for the entire month.

At Cruise Planners, we always want to create complete marketing strategies that make Cruise Planners travel agents larger than life, said Vicky Garcia, COO and co-owner of Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative. The Worlds Largest Cruise Event is a great opportunity for travelers to benefit from amazing value-add deals that cant be found anywhere else.

Cruise Planners exclusive, month-long Picture Your Selfie campaign is a multi-tiered marketing initiative that integrates a printed direct mailer, consumer emails, mobile-friendly online content, website themes and banners, a social media contest, and live cruise night events. Also, the social media elements are endless with a #CPSelfie hashtag, which is both a travel agent and consumer call to action with the goal to generate positive online conversations to ultimately help drive sales.

Love them or hate them, hashtags are everywhere, Garcia said. The hashtag has been propelled into popularity and is part of consumers daily communication, and we wanted to leverage that with the selfie, which has become one of the greatest photographic trends of our time.

This years promotions include prepaid gratuities, shipboard credits, reduced deposits, onboard savings, air and cruise fare discounts, stateroom upgrades, and shore excursion credits to name a few, with some of the biggest names in cruising providing these exceptional deals to customers.

As an added incentive, travelers have a chance to win $1,000 travel voucher and Cruise Planners swag bag by entering the social media contest on each Cruise Planners agents Facebook page. This is funded and managed through Cruise Planners CP Social program, which Cruise Planners travel agents can participate in.

To book a Cruise Planners Worlds Largest Cruise Event offer please visit http://www.Snyder-Travel.com. To share your Cruise Planners selfie, please use #CPSelfie on social media.

About Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative
Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, is the nations largest home-based travel agent franchise network in the travel industry. Cruise Planners operates a franchise network of more than 1,000 franchise owners who are experienced travel professionals who independently book amazing vacation and travel experiences for their clients.