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MEETINGS AT SEA
SWEEPS NATIONAL FRANCHISE AWARDS
TWO YEARS RUNNING   

 

 

  Meetings at Sea, Inc./The Langhorne Group was honored with National awards again this month  at the annual conference of CruiseOne, which represents over 500 CruiseOne franchise agencies nationwide.  

 

        The 2008 awards included "Highest Luxury Sales"   plus a special "Top Producer"   award from Regent Cruises     

 

National Franchise Awards
Top Performance

 

      In 2007, Patricia Langhorne, owner of  Meetings at Sea, Inc.  a cruise only travel agency, ran away the clear winner by receiving five of the seven  "Top Performance"   awards at the  CruiseOne/World Travel Holdings, Inc  . National conference   

 

         400 franchises were represented at the six day event which began at the Marriott Hotel in Miami,  and was followed by five days of workshops hosted by a majority of national brand cruiselines aboard the new NCL  "Pearl".   

 

           CruiseOne     franchisees nationwide are a division of  World Travel Holdings   , a major  player in cruise travel sales worldwide. The 500  CruiseOne    franchise network nationwide is supplemented by an additional 500 individual  "Cruises Inc"   home-based  specialists.   

 

         Patricia's company    Meetings-at-Sea, Inc    was founded in 1998 to acquire the  CruiseOne  franchise in Stuart, FL.

 

         Her awards included the   "Admirals Club"   award for annual sales exceeding $1.3 million for the preceding year;  "Highest luxury sales volume in a single month"  ;  "Most innovative niche marketing";     "Highest luxury cruise sales  ";  plus an individual award  from Azamara Cruises, a new luxury cruise division of  RCCL./Celebrity cruiselines.   

 

 (  Photo: Patricia Langhorne receives one of five national awards, from Vivian Ewart, Vice President of CruiseOne, a division of World Travel Holdings, at their annual conference in October, 2007)