| |  | | | | | LEISURE TRAVEL | | | Leisure travel is one of the most alluring and exciting opportunities in contemporary life. It is also a core business of Carlson Companies. Through several companies and leisure travel brands operating in the United States, Carlson Leisure Group serves millions of travelers, as well as select corporate customers and destinations, with needs around the world.
Carlson Leisure Group today manages leisure and franchise travel operations throughout the United States under a variety of diversified companies and brands. They include: Carlson Wagonlit Travel Associates (franchised travel agencies and leisure-owned offices in the U.S.), Cruise Holidays (cruise-specialty retail franchises in the U.S. and Canada), Results Travel franchised locations, SeaMaster Cruises home-based franchised locations, All Aboard Travel, SinglesCruise.com®, Cruise Specialists, Fly4Less.com, CruiseDeals.com, Carlson Destination Marketing Services and Carlson Leisure Travel Services.
The Carlson Travel Franchise Group, which includes the flagship Carlson Wagonlit Travel brand, is the largest travel agency franchiser in North America. This network of independently owned and managed travel agencies is also recognized as one of the best operations in the franchising industry.
The Carlson Wagonlit Travel Associate program offers franchise travel agency owners the benefits of cooperative advertising and the latest in technology tools, including www.CarlsonTravel.com - an online booking tool that links consumers with local agents. In addition, the program provides assistance with commercial business development, and opportunities to participate in negotiated vendor and travel supplier programs.
The program also includes the fastest-growing travel agency franchise organization, Results Travel, which offers travel agency owners the first limited service franchise option. Launched in mid-2000, there are already more than 900 Results Travel locations operating throughout the United States. In addition, Carlson Leisure Group's travel agency franchise division now includes North America's oldest and largest cruise-specialty franchise, Cruise Holidays, which was added to the Carlson portfolio in mid-2001, as well as Carlson’s first-ever home-based travel agency franchise, SeaMaster Cruises.
There are now more than 1,700 Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Cruise Holidays, Results Travel and SeaMaster Cruises locations in the U.S.
Carlson Vacation and Business Travel, which took root in 2000, also owns and operates its own Carlson Wagonlit Travel locations, as well as three leading cruise specialty operations: SinglesCruises.com, Cruise Specialists, and All Aboard Travel.
All Aboard Travel offers the best value in quality vacation travel with exclusive cruises and cruise tour packages to destinations around the world. These packages are sold by All Aboard Travel and through Partners In Travel, All Aboard Travel’s network of home-based independent contractors, who receive excellent support and an assurance in the quality of products as well as a competitive advantage. Collectively, our vacation specialists offer hundreds of years of travel experience, providing customers with among the highest levels of personalized services available in the United States.
Developed in 1996, Carlson Destination Marketing Services delivers a wide range of marketing services to clients around the world, helping them market more effectively to the American traveler.
Carlson Leisure Travel Services provides corporate clients with employee leisure booking tools, including TripForce.com, in addition to providing financial institutions and credit card reward programs with travel award redemptions. Through its customer contact centers, Carlson Leisure Travel Services currently assists more than 6.5 million active members of client credit card loyalty programs. Carlson Leisure Travel Services also owns and operates CruiseDeals.com and Fly4Less.com.
www.allaboardtravel.com
www.carlsonconnected.com
www.carlsondestinationmarketing.com
www.carlsontravel.com
www.cltsloyalty.com
www.cruisedeals.com
www.cruiseholidays.com
www.luxurycruises.com
www.fly4less.com
www.partnersintravel.com
www.resultstravel.com
www.seamastercruises.com
www.singlescruise.com
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