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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.

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.

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 is No. 1 within the travel category for 14 years in a row

Summertime is a great time frame to gear up ways to promote your travel agency business both online and offline. Here are some additional tips for travel agency franchise owners to promote their Cruise Planners franchise offline.