– Over the last couple of years.. I have watched Carnival shout out about supporting agents and agencies.. they implemented a great agent reward program.. opened up conversations.. ran some great group promotions and our BDM has been great. Now.. 2 years later. 1. You cut the cruise rookies rewards saving you Carnival $$ I cannot even comprehend and increased YOUR bottom line. 2. Your lowered travel agencies commissions. And unless your a mega agency like Expedia.. most of us smaller agencies will probably never hit those magic numbers of 15%. Again, cutting into my pocket, saving Carnival $$. 3. Your got rid of accelerated TC’s for groups. We cannot even buy them with points. Again, we loose $$. Carnival makes $$. 4. You gave out lots of free cruises – yet I saw agents seriously up in arms as many agents who won those cabins.. are agents in name only with very little overall production. My suggestion Carnival. Is start taking a good hard look at your brick and mortar smaller agencies. Agencies who don’t have deep pockets, but seriously focus their attention on you. By not rewarding and acknowledging these smaller agencies – it is an epic fail. And you will loose us.

Over the last couple of years.. I have watched Carnival shout out about supporting agents and agencies.. they implemented a great agent reward program.. opened up conversations.. ran some great group promotions and our BDM has been great. Now.. 2 years later. 1. You cut the cruise rookies rewards saving you Carnival $$ I cannot even comprehend and increased YOUR bottom line. 2. Your lowered travel agencies commissions. And unless your a mega agency like Expedia.. most of us smaller agencies will probably never hit those magic numbers of 15%. Again, cutting into my pocket, saving Carnival $$. 3. Your got rid of accelerated TC’s for groups. We cannot even buy them with points. Again, we loose $$. Carnival makes $$. 4. You gave out lots of free cruises – yet I saw agents seriously up in arms as many agents who won those cabins.. are agents in name only with very little overall production. My suggestion Carnival. Is start taking a good hard look at your brick and mortar smaller agencies. Agencies who don’t have deep pockets, but seriously focus their attention on you. By not rewarding and acknowledging these smaller agencies – it is an epic fail. And you will loose us.

First of all, we want to thank you for your valuable and honest feedback and thank you for giving us the opportunity to address your concerns.

As far as the Rewards Program, there was an issue with the program and we tried hard to fix it. We are sorry that we were unable to resolve it and maintain Cruise Rookies in the Travel Agents Rewards Program. Your BDM has already been in contact with you and will continue to connect with you about this and your other concerns.

We appreciate your feedback and concern about commission. We are working hard to increase ticket prices so that all of our travel professionals can continue to make more within the current commission structure. We also continuously evaluate new ways to help you earn more through bonus commissions, new rewards point earners and other ideas that we continue to work on.

Although accelerated TC`s cannot be purchased with Fun Points, overall, our group program is richer in that our Travel Professionals can now add most restrict to berth fares to their group and earn TCs. We also on occasions will offer PGR group promotions where you can earn 1 for 10 or 1 for 8 depending on the ship/sail date and market. Additionally, we may offer promotions with generous deposit schedules as well as reduced deposit to assist our travel partners secure and maintain group space. These are wonderful and positive additions to our group program

The free cabin giveaway was a contest we ran that with every valid booking, you were automatically entered in to win a free cruise. We believe the fairest way to choose our winners was to do a random selection.

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