Career Online Training for Cruise Ship Salespeople

One popular cruise ship company is offering career online training to prospective salespeople.

Cruise Holidays recently announced that it will offer a comprehensive online training curriculum that agencies can use to attract, train and retain outside sales agents. The online programs consist of videos and live and pre-recorded Webinars.

"The initial feedback from our franchise owners has been overwhelmingly positive, mainly because it will help them find new ways to grow by supporting their independent contractors and agents," Mark Schiffner, vice president of Cruise Holidays, said. "Two of the biggest problems facing our owners today is finding good people, and finding time to train and support them. We are now providing a training framework so they can be more successful."

The outside agent training program consists of more than 50 hours of programming, which covers almost all the steps it takes to get started as an independent contractor. Training categories include: setting up a home office, an introduction to the cruise and tour industries and Cruise Holidays programs for more profitability.

The program allows most training to be completed on an agent's own time, making it easy for them to start, stop and review lessons whenever they wish.

Cruise Holidays is the oldest cruise-specialty retail franchise in North America. The company, which also provides land tour vacation packages, has stores and home-based franchises in the United States and Canada.

Founded in 1984, the company is part of the Travel Leaders group, an organization that has about 1,500 travel agency locations throughout the U.S. and Canada.