Vacation Express is one of the highest volume vacation wholesalers in the southeastern portion of the U.S. The company has provided more than 2 million vacation packages since its founding in 1989 in Atlanta.
The first offerings of the company were vacation packages for Jamaica. In 1992, the company introduced its first charter flights from Atlanta to Cancun and staked out a new niche for itself as a major charter operator offering packages. The company grew rapidly as a charter operator in the 1990s, and also built a program based on scheduled air, providing packages and connections from most major U.S. cities to Mexico, the Caribbean and Costa Rica.
The company offers packages to more than 25 destinations within the region of the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America. Vacation Express works with the leading hotel chains of the region, including Iberostar, Riu, Princess, Palladium, Hard Rock, Melia, Barcelo and Hyatt.
With Vacation Express' staff working hard to provide the best value available in the top vacation regions for Americans, the company has adopted the motto: "Number One to the Sun."
The company offers packages incorporating air from all major US carriers as well as some international carriers. It is part of the Sunwing Travel Group, a vertically integrated travel company based in Toronto. Sunwing Airlines provides a broad array of charter flights to power the packages of Vacation Express. Vacation Express is constantly expanding, enhancing and seasonally adjusting its charter package offerings.
Sunwing Travel Group's other brands include Sunwing Vacations, Thomson Holidays, Blue Diamond Hotels and Resorts, Memories Beach Resorts and Royalton Luxury Resorts.
At the Agent@Home Travel Summits, Vacation Express will be presenting its product line, with special emphasis on some of its newer product entries, such as its packages with nonstop air for Grand Bahama Island and its recently introduced charters from Raleigh-Durham to Cancun.
Agent@Home Travel Summits, the first of their kind, provide a forum where home-based travel agents, the readers of Agent@Home magazine, can network, learn how to improve their business, and discover more about travel industry products and services. Twin summits are scheduled in Long Beach, California, Sept. 15-18, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, Sept. 29-Oct. 2.
The summits bring Agent@Home, the only magazine that caters to home-based travel professionals and entrepreneurs, to life by offering extensive educational programming covering the top issues facing the travel agency trade today. Agent@Home is a sister publication to TravelPulse.com.
For more information or to register, click on Agent@Home Travel Summit. Travel suppliers interested in exhibiting and/or speaking at either event should contact show organizer Paul Muir at [email protected].
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