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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.

Cruise Planners’ Business Development Team acts as the biggest support system for franchise owners. Each team members’ main goal is to motivate and assist our travel agency owners in all aspects of small business ownership. Whether cultivating business plans, creating marketing tools or hosting coaching calls, the Business Development Team strives to ensure the success of every franchisee who becomes a travel agency owner.

Franchise owners can focus on growing their home-based businesses by easily adding associates as members of the franchise’s selling team

At Cruise Planners, franchisees are provided with a surplus of training opportunities to help them reach their full potential. From the award-winning, in-person, new franchisee training program to more extensive, ongoing training opportunities, Cruise Planners supports travel advisors through all stages of business operation. Training opportunities include regional events focused on new tools and strategies for agents to continually improve their travel agency business and online learning tools giving agents on-demand access to virtual training focused on sales, marketing, travel brand knowledge and so much more. Also, there are in-person training events hosted around the country including boot camps, regionals and the annual convention, which is the brand’s biggest event of the year.

Cruise Planners, an American Express Travel Representative, is once again recognized by Franchise Business Review as Top Franchise for Veterans