COLLETTE is having “great success” working with agents who are strong in cruising to add on a pre- or post-cruise land-based tour, Alison Mead, the company’s Australian business manager, told Cruise Weekly. In the next six weeks Collette will have released all of its product through until Apr 2019, a...
COLLETTE is having “great success” working with agents who are strong in cruising to add on a pre- or post-cruise land-based tour, Alison Mead, the company’s Australian business manager, told Cruise Weekly.
In the next six weeks Collette will have released all of its product through until Apr 2019, a move Mead said had been fuelled by the early-release of cruising programs and designed to allow agents to pair up land and cruise departures.
“Cruising is competing with us but we like to think that we’re working together with them,” Mead said.
The company offers a number of Spotlight tours (single city stays) in major port cities such as New York & Rome which tie in with cruise arrivals or departures.
Collette offers some river cruise departures on Luftner Cruises’ vessels, but Mead said the company was not looking at having its own ships.
“Not owning our own boats means that we don’t have the high risk,” she said.
“If we don’t fill it or we want to change it to the next season we don’t have to worry about what we’re going to do with this hardware,” Mead added, reinforcing that Collette was “absolutely focussed on land-based touring”.
