Both parties heralded the first year of the partnership as a ‘complete success’ with trade sales through youtravel.com making up a significant of proportion of easyCruise's UK sales.
Bookings from the UK account for around 50% of the line's overall sales.
easyCruise sales and marketing director, Paul Ellerby, said: ‘I’m delighted to have renewed the youtravel.com deal. Last year worked really well for both of us and I am sure that thanks to new itineraries, including a new seven-night cruise from Bodrum, the relationship will continue to go from strength to strength.’
Liz Garfield, national sales manager for youtravel.com, added: ‘We’ve worked closely with the easyCruise team to ensure that our agent partners have got access to great value prices. Our prices are on a half-board basis and include housekeeping services.’
The two companies are planning another joint fam trip for spring 2009, to highlight
easyCruise Life’s new cruise itineraries out of Athens and Bodrum.
The easyCruise itineraries can be booked via the ‘cruise’ tab on the youtravel.com homepage.
See also:
youtravel.com targets cruise sector (19/09/08)
Stelios seeks bigger ship (13/02/08)