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CLIA UK & Ireland relaunches agent website

CLIA UK & Ireland is relaunching its travel agent website as figures show that users visiting the site for the dedicated online cruise training is increasing.  More than 6,500 users completed 27,000 online modules in the past year.

Mary Bond, Editor in Chief

May 22, 2015

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Credit: Seatrade Cruise News

Recognising the changing way in which travel agents visit the website, cruiseexperts.org will become fully compatible for users on mobiles and tablets for the first time.  In addition the site will be organised into three distinct areas.  The Learning Academy will continue to provide City & Guilds accredited training modules together with a resource centre containing reports and statistics.  The new Cruise Tool Box will feature resources to assist agents during the sales process including the unique digital brochure rack, a complete guide to all ocean and river cruise ships; specially created CLIA factsheets; a fully updated cruise search engine and CLIA Destination Guides. The third area is the new CLIA Cruise Daily will feature live and recorded webinars; a calendar of cruise industry events open to travel agents; the CLIA image library; CLIA TV and sales guides.
 
CLIA UK & Ireland director, Andy Harmer said: 'We identified that more and more agents are now accessing cruiseexperts.org via their mobile or tablet so I’m delighted the site will be compatible with all forms of technology.  This, together with the three newly created web zones, represents a significant enhancement for our members.'
 
Cruiseexperts.org will be relaunched in early June.

About the Author

Mary Bond

Editor in Chief

Mary Bond is Group Director, Seatrade Cruise a division within Informa Markets and responsible for the Seatrade portfolio of global cruise events, print and online cruise publishing.

Mary is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of Seatrade Cruise News and Seatrade Cruise Review magazine.

Mary has worked in the shipping industry for 39 years, first for Lloyd’s Register of Shipping before joining Seatrade’s editorial team in 1985.

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