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TWENTY CRUISE-KEEN INTERNATIONAL Cruise Council Australasia travel agent members escaped the onset of winter by jetting to sunny Fort Lauderdale in Florida last month, to attend the world’s largest cruise conference, cruise3sixty. The event gave the Aussie agents an opportunity to participate in cruise specific seminars, destination workshops and a trade show. As an added bonus, the cruisey agents also had the opportunity to inspect cruise ships often sold by Aussie agents to their clients, but which have never sailed into local waters. “It was a great event that was well organised on an enormous scale,” said Cruise Council General Manager Brett Jardine, who chaperoned the group. “Agents had a fantastic opportunity to see and understand how the cruise industry is tracking from North America, the world’s largest source market. “I would really encourage agents who are serious about building their cruise business to consider attending the 2012 event,” he added. The agents are pictured above from left: Sue Francis, Interline Reservations; Brian Woodhouse, Cruise Vacations; Rhona Rodgers, MTA Travel; Justine Sealey, Ramsgate Travel; Chris Phillips, Jetset Travelworld; Claudia Iser, Jetset Blackburn; Tim Lawry, Jetset Blackburn; Kim Adcock, HWT Sylvania; Brett Jardine, ICCA; Catherine Allison, Jetset Travelworld; Roslyn Pilcher, Travelworld Runaway Bay; Roland Kautzky, Cruiseabout Toorak; Vivien Davies, HWT Sylvania and Lois Marshall, MTA Travel. |
