IST Redefining Cruise Business and the travel wholesaler AERO close alliance
Now the travel agencies will be able to increase their business in cruises connecting with more than 30 shipping companies
The leading technology partner in the cruise sector, IST Redefining Cruise Business and the Argentine travel wholesaler AERO, sign a collaboration agreement thanks to which, the sale and quotation of cruises will be accessible to all those Travel Agencies that want to increase their business with this vacation product.
After little more than a year of commercial relationship between IST and AERO, the will of both companies to continue being references in the tourism sector was reinforced during the last FIT 2018, with the signing of an unprecedented agreement. Positioning Travel Agencies as the epicenter, Spanish and Argentine companies make a clear commitment so that the growing demand for cruises is met with the maximum guarantees of success. The most outstanding lines of this agreement are the following:
Extension of the Network of Agencies attached to the AERO Wholesale.
Accessibility to the most avant-garde technology for quotation and sale of cruises.
Support to Travel Agencies in their business model.
FIBOS Technology has allowed during its more than 20 years that Travel Agencies commercially take advantage of the constant and growing demand that exists on cruises. A holiday product that is no longer conceived as elitist and that takes strength among Millennials due to its value for money and the efforts of shipping companies to adapt to their tastes and styles, adding new forms of entertainment in their products. cruise ships.
The solution proposed by IST with a direct connection to more than 30 shipping lines has made this route of business of selling cruises to the agencies much easier over the years. A complex route that in many occasions the Retail Travel Agencies can not access by themselves, this being precisely the objective that seeks to achieve this agreement between AERO and IST. "Travel Agencies have to be prepared for the new challenges in the cruise industry and they can only face them with technology," says Manuel Sardi, CEO of IST.
No doubt a Collaboration Agreement that once shows serious signals of International Cooperation that bet for a continuous growth in the cruise industry.
"At Aero we see this agreement with IST as a great opportunity to continue providing interactive solutions to our customers to continue adding value to our service. The demand for access to cruise reservation tools is constantly increasing and being the partner chosen by IST to meet the needs of Argentine agencies makes us proud and renews our expectations of joint growth, "says Alejandro Camiña, Cruise Manager of the operator.
On the other hand, Facundo Carassale, Commercial Director of Aero sees a great benefit for the agencies, "Aero is a company that constantly seeks new ways to improve the experience of our customers and the strategic partnership with IST is definitely a great contribution in that sense".