Are you passionate about travel and ready to make 2026 your year? Join our upcoming webinar on January 20th to discover what it takes to become an Expedia Cruises™ Vacation Consultant. Get an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at our award-winning culture—where innovation, collaboration, and growth are at the heart of everything we do.
As we celebrate Women's History Month, we are incredibly proud to announce that for the second year in a row, we have been recognized by Franchise Business Review as a 2025 Top Franchise for Women! Join our team as a Vacation Consultant and experience firsthand the empowering culture that sets us apart. With unparalleled support, a flexible work-life balance, and the chance to build your own business, you’ll be part of a thriving community of women entrepreneurs.
Becoming a Vacation Consultant with Expedia Cruises opens the door to a rewarding career in the thriving travel industry. Enjoy entrepreneurial freedom, comprehensive support, and access to award winning tools and systems that will take your travel career to the next level.
For the second year in a row, Expedia Cruises™ has earned a spot on Franchise Business Review’s “Culture 100” list, recognizing the top 100 franchise brands with the best company culture. Join us as a Vacation Consultant and experience our award-winning culture firsthand.
The success of Expedia Cruises™ is rooted in our Stronger Together® culture. Learn all about what this means and why 91% of our Vacation Consultants are proud to be part of Expedia Cruises.
Franchise Business Review, a leading publication in franchise system analysis, has recently honored Expedia Cruises™ with five prestigious awards in 2025, including the recognition as a Top 200 Franchise.
We are proud to announce Expedia Group ranked #2 on Travel Weekly's 2024 Power List, ranking the industry’s top retail travel agencies. The Power List is an annual survey of the industry's largest and most successful travel agencies based on full-year 2023 sales. This year’s list is the largest yet, with 72 agencies recording more than $110 million in annual sales.
Expedia Cruises recently hosted their annual Conference At Sea with over 500 Franchisees, Vacation Consultants, travel industry executives and corporate team members in attendance.
Considering joining the travel industry? Hear from one of our Vacation Consultants just how exciting and rewarding a career with Expedia Cruises can be.
Today is National Travel Advisor Day! Today we celebrate and honor our passionate team of over 5,000 Vacation Consultants across North America for their resilience, tenacity and dedication to their customers and the travel industry!
Longer duration cruises. Higher per cabin spend. A spike in bookings for world cruises. The pandemic has truly underlined the role of travel agents as travel advisors, and travel consultants: “This is the age of the travel professional. We can truly become that trusted advisor that can walk them through a lifetime of travel.”
Online travel shopping company Expedia Group Thursday launched COVID-19 Travel Advisor, an online tool that provides information about current travel restrictions to potential and existing customers across seven of the company’s brands.
Designed to help cruise lines, franchise partners and agents more easily search for, choose and distribute cruises, the new tools were launched in response to North America search data in Q4 last year, which found that there is substantial pent-up demand for cruises in 2021.
Matthew Eichorst, president of Expedia Cruises and Global Cruise Leader at Expedia Group, took some time during the week to talk to Travel Market Report about his take on 2020 and what the group is doing to prepare its advisors and franchise owners for 2021.
Global cruise searches spiked as much as 30% between August and September and almost 9,000 passengers booked 2021 and 2022 cruises in a recent Expedia promotion. Matthew Eichhorst, Vice President of Global Cruise at Expedia Group says these early signs of recovery are extremely encouraging.
While we ve all had to put our love of travel on hold, we have never been more than ever dedicated to supporting our Vacation Consultants. We re here and will always be here to provide them with the tools, service, and unparalleled support to ensure their success.
In celebration of Travel Agent Day, we want to recognize the countless hours of hard work and commitment our Vacation Consultants have devoted to their customers during these challenging times and show you what we re doing to help them!
Expedia Cruises held its most successful Vacation Consultant Navigators Rally last month in Vancouver, BC. The annual all-day training event welcomed nearly 500 Expedia Cruises cruise and land representatives from across Western Canada and the US.
Expedia Cruises, a leading cruise travel agency franchise, announced the awarding of its 300th franchise agreement, reaching a major milestone for the rapidly expanding retail travel agency franchise.
The top cruise travel agency franchise in North America, Expedia Cruises, announced today a milestone-heavy year for the growing brand. The brick and mortar travel agency achieved 20 percent year-over-year growth, opened 25 new franchise locations and welcomed a record-breaking 1,773 new Vacation Consultants to its network.
We are thrilled to announce that Expedia Cruises has grown to over 5,000 Vacation Consultants serving travelers across North America! Through our personalized service and expert advice, we have been helping clients navigate through the overwhelming amount of travel options to choose the right vacation for their needs.
At Expedia Cruises, our Vacation Consultants have the opportunity to work from home or in a retail space that is connected to their community. An Expedia retail store is synonymous with credibility and provides many benefits that cannot be matched by home-based models.
With the number of options available online and the ability for people to make their own travel arrangements, many believe that travel agents are no longer essential in the vacation planning process. This however is not the case! Click here to learn 4 reasons why travel agents like our Vacation Consultants are still in demand.