CLIA Australasia has announced its 2015 Masters Conference will be an oriental voyage on Royal Caribbean’s new ‘smartship’ Quantum of the Seas.
Commencing in Shanghai on October 16, 2015, with two nights pre-cruise accommodation, the conference will include a five-night cruise to Beijing including calls to ports in Japan and Korea.
With Quantum of the Seas featuring the North Star, a glass capsule that lifts guests more than 300 feet in the air, a skydiving simulator, bumper cars, roller skating rink and a bar run by robot bartenders, CLIA Australasia General Manager Brett Jardine said he expected places at the conference would be snapped up very quickly.
“Asia is a hot destination for cruising and we know our members are champing at the bit to try Quantum of the Seas with its cutting edge cruise features,” Mr Jardine said.
Revealing details at the Cruise3sixty Australasia conference in Sydney today, Mr Jardine said US-based sales guru and motivator Scott Koepf would return to oversee the 17th Masters after being heaped with praise following the 2014 event.
Masters participants will attend a series of sessions that are designed to help differentiate their personal and business approach to selling cruise holidays. Between seminars they will be able to explore Fukuoka in Japan and Busan in South Korea.
After completing the course and a comprehensive post-conference assignment, agents will enter the prestigious Cruise Masters’ ranks.
The annual Masters event, which combines intensive training sessions with a first-hand cruise experience, is open to all agents currently holding CLIA Ambassador level accreditation and employed by a CLIA member travel agent.
Participation fees for the 2015 event cost A$2300 per person twin share and A$3400 for singles including the five-night cruise from October 18 to 23 in a guaranteed balcony cabin as well as two nights’ pre-cruise accommodation at Le Meridien Shanghai on October 16 and 17. For more details visit www.cruising.org.au.
SOURCE CLIA