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One Young Travel Agent Shares how She Gained Financial Independence and Travels the World as a Cruise Planners Franchise Owner During the past 3 years, Cruise Planners has seen a 66% increase in franchisees under 40 joining the growing travel agency network. Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel representative, is the nation’s largest network of home-based travel agents who customize and plan a variety of vacations for all types of travelers.

If you have a passion for traveling and want the freedom of being your own boss, consider starting a home based travel agency. Not sure how to start a work from home travel agency? Think about joining a low cost travel franchise, such as Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, which comes with many benefits to help you and your new travel agency business succeed.

Cruise Planners' business-in-a-box model has changed the lives of franchise owners across the U.S. by helping them build successful careers in the travel industry. With Father's Day around the corner, father-son team, Neil and Jason Hantman, share their Cruise Planners success story.

The Technology Team at Cruise Planners works diligently to ensure our travel agent franchises have the absolute best and latest travel technology tools at their fingertips. Travel Agency Franchise owners rely heavily on the award-winning tools created by the Technology Team to assist with cruise, land, and tour bookings. Planning and booking customized trips working from home or on the go is a breeze with the CP Maxx Mobile App which allows Cruise Planners travel agents to manage their travel agency business from anywhere in the world. Clients are able to use a second consumer-facing mobile app, Cruise Planners Mobile, to book new trips and review previously booked trips. Not into mobile apps? Cruise Planners franchises' websites are accessible on both desktop format and mobile platforms and are responsive to all smartphone browsers.

Cruise Planners, an American Express Representative, allows franchise owners to combine their passion for travel with the power to be their own boss and to work whenever and wherever they want. For some travel franchise owners, opening and operating their Cruise Planners franchise is a family affair, giving these travel agents the opportunity to build relationships with both their clients and each other. Terry McKinney, a franchise owner since 2011 based in Magnolia, Texas shares how running her work from home Cruise Planners franchise with her daughter Andrea Mickan, has allowed them to make a difference in their clients lives – and their own – through travel.

Cruise Planners, An American Express Representative, created the Armed Forces and First Responders Initiative Program with exclusive benefits for retired, active military and spouses of the community. The support, tools and award-winning travel agent training that is offered through this program are the perfect guide to effortlessly merge a military background with a passion for travel and achieve a successful business as a Cruise Planners travel agency franchise owner.