Success Stories

Kyle Nichols isn't your average cruise travel agent. Sure, he's been enjoying success as a Cruise Planners franchisee since 2020, but his journey started long before that. With a background working for industry giants like Walt Disney Company and Carnival Cruise Lines, Kyle brings a wealth of travel and vacation experience to the table, helping him build on his true passion —crafting extraordinary, one-of-a-kind adventures, especially on intimate, small-ship cruises.

How do you thank someone who has put their life on the line to defend our freedom? It is hard to fully encapsulate the gratitude we feel for the sacrifice that so many veterans and their families make in order to serve our country, but we try once a year to express it as much as we can. For us here, our gratitude toward veterans is personal-- many of our franchise owners and travel advisors are former and current military members, and we know it takes a very special heart to serve. Today, we take a closer look at one of our advisors, Bill Brown, a 21- year U.S. Marine veteran, who owns and operates a Cruise Planners franchise in Virginia Beach with his wife Sandy, and why he chose this career after serving in the U.S Military.

Cruise Planners Welcomes Growing Number of New Travel Agents to its Millionaires Club for 2018

Cruise Planners' business-in-a-box model has changed the lives of franchise owners across the U.S. by helping them build successful careers in the travel industry. With Father's Day around the corner, father-son team, Neil and Jason Hantman, share their Cruise Planners success story.

Cruise Planners, an American Express Representative, allows franchise owners to combine their passion for travel with the power to be their own boss and to work whenever and wherever they want. For some travel franchise owners, opening and operating their Cruise Planners franchise is a family affair, giving these travel agents the opportunity to build relationships with both their clients and each other. Terry McKinney, a franchise owner since 2011 based in Magnolia, Texas shares how running her work from home Cruise Planners franchise with her daughter Andrea Mickan, has allowed them to make a difference in their clients lives – and their own – through travel.