Ranked #1
We’ve been ranked the number one travel franchise to own by Entrepreneur every year since 2002. Our consistent sales growth and nearly 30-year legacy of success make us the most highly awarded travel franchise, period!
With 30 years of travel franchise experience and the nation’s largest home-based travel agency franchise network, Cruise Planners, knows what it takes for you to be successful in your new home-based travel agency business.
Cruise Planners’ business-in-a-box model (combined with much heart, soul and personal attention) gives you everything you need to grow your own successful travel business.
We’ve been ranked the number one travel franchise to own by Entrepreneur every year since 2002. Our consistent sales growth and nearly 30-year legacy of success make us the most highly awarded travel franchise, period!
No experience? No problem! We provide extensive training on how to become a travel agent at our week-long STAR University. Plus, you’ll get ongoing, one-on-one business development coaching to help you start a business from home and grow it successfully.
Our mobile technology gives you the ability to work your business from anywhere with an internet connection, even while traveling. Plus, you make your own hours, so you can determine a schedule that works best for your lifestyle.
As a Cruise Planners® travel advisor you can sell more than just cruises - With Cruisitude® you can truly sell the world! Earn commission selling land tours, all-inclusive resorts, hotels, travel insurance, rental cars, and more.
Cruise Planners is a low-cost franchise that offers the highest commissions. We’ve got serious purchasing power and well-established clout with cruise lines, tour companies, hotels and all-inclusive resorts. That means better rates for your clients and the best commissions in the industry for you.
We help get your name in front of potential customers with impactful direct mail pieces, a stunning magazine, social media and email programs, your own website and on-demand printing.
Our technology is the best in the industry. With our robust CRM and booking system, agent and client mobile apps, and email automation platform, you can sell more and truly work from anywhere.
Unlike other franchises, our home office does not sell travel. We are here to support you, not compete against you! Each one of our 120+ home office team members is dedicated to helping your business succeed.
Why wait until retirement to travel? As a travel advisor you will have access to discounts and special travel agent perks like inaugural cruises and familiarization trips, so you can start your own travel agency and travel the world now!
Cruise Planners consistently ranks high on the Franchise Business Review, a peer-reviewed site, and received a 99% overall satisfaction rating, surpassing other franchise companies in the Travel and Hospitality sector and exceeding the overall satisfaction benchmark by 21 points.
“I used to work in finance and accounting for a large, global company, but 80-hour work weeks and constant restructurings left me looking for an exit strategy. Cruise Planners let me take back ownership of my life. I love that I can run a successful business and still have time to do the thing I love most — travel!”
“I look in the mirror sometimes, and I can’t believe this is my life. I have been to so many places, and I get to do all these great things with wonderful people, and I have the support of Cruise Planners that has changed my life both personally and financially.”
“As a military family, we have traveled the world and we have the dedication and discipline to get things done. Cruise Planners was a natural fit. The flexibility to work from anywhere has been vital, and we have had so much fun growing our business together.”
"My son is on the spectrum of autism. Cruise Planners gives me the tools and flexibility to be there for him while also growing a successful business. Because of Cruise Planners, both my son and my business are thriving."
“I was with another travel company, but I reached a point in my business where I just couldn’t keep up with everything. Cruise Planners’ proven systems, word-class marketing and revolutionary technology helped me take my sales to a level I never thought possible. I am far more successful with Cruise Planners than I could have ever been with my previous host.”
“When I was getting ready to retire, I had no idea what I was going to do next. I started Cruise Planners part time, but I loved it so much and was doing so well that I made it my fulltime job and even recruited my daughter to help me. I love that I get to travel and run a successful business with my daughter.”
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