Cruising to Success

Agent Studio’s latest enhancement, a new integrated cruise booking engine, offers travel advisors a considerable array of competitive advantages while providing their clients with more booking options.

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"By adding a robust cruise booking engine to our Agent Studio-powered sites, we are giving the travel agent’s customers the ability to research and book directly on that agent’s site, if they so choose,” said Mark Murphy, president and CEO of travAlliancemedia.

The cruise booking engine automates every aspect of the booking process and includes the industry’s leading cruise suppliers along with a vast amount of cruise line, cruise ship and stateroom descriptions with images and deck plans to make the booking process as simple as possible for clients.

The Agent Studio cruise booking engine is also mobile-friendly and features innovative and responsive technology that automatically adjusts display layouts based on the type of device being used. Among the booking engine’s other features are:

—Revenue management tools that enable agents to mark fares up and down quickly and easily by cruise line, ship, cabin class, itinerary and dates

—Email communications to customers that include agents’ email address, logo, etc.

—Itinerary and availability search-and-compare capability for multiple cruise lines with live booking capabilities

—Cruise line and ship preferences that allow for availability bias displays to manage preferred provider relationships

Travel consultants with Agent Studio sites can add the cruise booking engine for $15 per month or have it included in one of Agent Studio’s packages.

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“Add in Agent Studio’s other features—including Travefy’s Itinerary Planner, Sendible Synchronized Social Media Posting, the Agent Studio Marketing Center, dynamic news, videos and articles—and nothing else comes close to what agents get with their Agent Studio sites,” said Murphy.

“By adding a robust cruise booking engine to our Agent Studio-powered sites, we are giving the travel agent’s customers the ability to research and book directly on that agent's site, if they so choose.”