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Old Jul 6, 2012, 12:24 am
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DanJ
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: London, Ontario
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Originally Posted by Centurion
Wow you guys are way to low. Try a Royal +17% plus extras sometimes called TA cruise credits that can be used on the passenger or the agent can keep for themselves for various things from free trips to welcome gifts or special meals for customers.

Some companies have gone way out of their way to avoid agent advertising or giving discount with a carrot and a stick. The stick being banned selling for cruises for the company.

Did I use the word Royal before? Funny their is a NYSE company with the symbol RCL that owns quite a few cruise lines.
Royal Caribbean and their various brands don't allow TA's to advertise prices lower than what the cruise line website displays. But that doesn't stop some TA's from giving the customer various forms of kickbacks, either through direct payment, to on board credits and dinner vouchers to the specialty restaurants.

Carnival also does this, but not across all their brands.
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