Travel Leaders Group to Ramp Up Cruise Volume With CruCon Cruise Outlet Investment

Travel Leaders Group and CruCon Cruise Outlet have signed an agreement for Travel Leaders Group to make a significant investment in CruCon in early 2017. Under the continued leadership of Sandy Cleary, Travel Leaders Group – by way of its CruCon platform – will seek to consolidate up to $1 billion in annual cruise sales volume over the next several years. Cleary will ultimately oversee an investment strategy designed to dramatically increase Travel Leaders Group’s wholly-owned cruise volume.

New Hampshire-based CruCon, founded in 1997 by Cleary, has grown into one of the largest sellers of cruises with more than $125 million in annual cruise volume, Travel Leaders said. It currently ranks as one of the largest members of Travel Leaders Network – a Travel Leaders Group division – having first joined in 1999.

Travel Leaders Group’s wholly-owned cruise-focused businesses – All Aboard Travel, CruiseDeals.com, Cruise Specialists and SinglesCruise.com – currently comprise the company’s Travel Leaders Leisure Group division. With the investment in CruCon, Travel Leaders Group said it anticipates exponential growth in its wholly-owned cruise sales volume.

“Through CruCon Cruise Outlet’s 17-year membership in what is now Travel Leaders Network, we have long been impressed with their best-in-class processes to drive and improve results,” said John Lovell, president of Travel Leaders Network & Leisure Group. “Through our investment in CruCon, we are prepared to undertake an investment strategy – managed by Sandy Cleary – to integrate additional cruise agencies into Travel Leaders Leisure Group. This will significantly increase our sphere of influence with our supplier partners and allow us to capture additional economies of scale.”

According to Travel Leaders Group, the investment in CruCon will be made in early 2017. No additional details regarding the investment will be divulged.

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