All the benefits of the Cruise Shoppes consortium are available to Home Based agents looking for a professional host agency. Our Trip Professionals division returns more profits and provides more support than typical travel agencies can offer. Agent-owners can reduce costs and remain successful by moving their business into their home. Existing agents who wish to start their own agency, but find the cost barrier to entry too high when following the retail storefront business plan, now have an efficient solution. Trip Professionals is a complete Home Based business that allows you to begin selling travel immediately.
Whether you are new to the industry or an established travel professional, we will provide you with the resources and support to allow you to start making money in a short period of time.
We offer some of the best commissions and lowest start-up costs of any of our competitors. Couple these advantages with our exclusive technology, marketing and training programs, and you have the perfect partner in the travel industry.

Our single focus is enabling our members to grow their business. We accomplish this through a wide range of programs.

• Our exclusive ECHO Web site builder and replication software. To an unprecedented degree, our Web site becomes your Web site. Through our exclusive ECHO replication technology, you can have a personally branded Web site, designed, hosted and maintained by Trip Professionals. ECHO also enables you to create and manage an unlimited amount of customization and content.
• Our members have access to Passport Online’s VacationPORT, a highly customizable, electronic travel-marketing program that enables agents to access thousands of the latest leisure travel offers from major suppliers. Each week our members receive a customized E-mail that they can personalize with their agency information and forward to their E-mail database. It also gives agents the ability to create E-mails with a complete library of banners and layouts to actively promote timely travel offers.
• Our exclusive training agreement with travel industry marketing consultant Robert Stalbaum. We have created a training program for our affiliates throughout the year, not just at annual conferences.
• Quarterly four-color retail mailer “Cruise Shopper” and our luxury mailer “Extraordinary Vacations” are designed with our preferred suppliers, produced and delivered to your database through a protected third-party distribution house.
• “Cruise Center” offers enhanced commissions and over 500 group blocks with discounts and amenities.
• A weekly member newsletter, “TripTalk,” keeps you up-to-date on the latest deals and cruise opportunities, while our weekly electronic consumer newsletter, “Weekly Cruise News & Deals,” can be customized by you and E-mailed to your client list.

For more information about Trip Professionals, call us at 1-877-TRIP-PRO, visit our Web site at www.tripprofessionalsathome.com or send an E-mail to info@tripprofessionals.com.