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Cruise Planners Announces New Marketing Initiatives

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CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., Oct. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Cruise Planners, the nation’s largest home-based travel agency franchise network, introduced a series of innovative marketing initiatives at its annual convention, designed to spark fresh travel inspiration.

These initiatives highlight Cruise Planners’ commitment to delivering industry leading marketing programs that empower advisors to achieve new levels of success. Targeted, personalized and automated marketing allows advisors to focus on their primary strengths—selling travel and providing exceptional client experiences.

The Cruise Planners in-house design and marketing team publishes over 30 direct mail pieces each year with distribution to clients on behalf of their advisors. Paired with multi-channel, digital campaigns, these award-winning, turnkey marketing solutions are the best in the industry and help advisors stay top of mind with their clients.

New marketing tools and programs include:

Retargeting Marketing Campaigns:
Leveraging customer behavior and intelligence tools, Cruise Planners will deliver marketing campaigns tailored to clients’ specific travel interests, budget and life stage, ensuring personalized and timely engagement to boost the chances of making a sale.

River & Expedition Guide:
Launching in Q1 2025, the new River & Expedition Guide brochure will provide a comprehensive resource for clients interested in river or expedition cruising. It includes details on popular ports, must-see natural wonders, landmarks, cultural sites, and key differences between cruise lines. This guide will be available in print and digital, expanding the potential reach.

Where2Next Consumer Series:
The award-winning Where2Next consumer series enters its sixth year, spotlighting trending destinations like Alaska, Europe, Hawaii, Australia/New Zealand, Japan, and the South Pacific. Each campaign features an exclusive offer available only through Cruise Planners travel advisors and is marketed for their advisors through email, social media, and advisors’ websites.

CP Social Enhancements:
The CP Social program, an award-winning social media platform, now offers AI-powered tools that automatically create post suggestions, review responses, and aids advisors in optimizing their local search presence.  

Other new tools unveiled at Cruise Planners Convention:

Cruisetours:
Advisors can now access Cruisetour information directly within CP Maxx for select sailings. Searches provide detailed tour data, including name, code, length, and dates. This will allow advisors to better offer enhanced experiences to their clients sailing to Alaska or Europe.

Trip Summary Enhancements:
Enhancements to the existing Trip Summary tool include new filters, easier bundling of multiple trip summaries, trip proposals and a better interface to improve the user experience enabling advisors to provide professional, robust trip summaries to their clients leading to higher sales close rate.

Hotel Sheets:
Advisors can select specific rooms and rates from over 2 million properties worldwide and share them with clients, with dynamic live pricing ensuring the most up-to-date information.

Navitrip Hotel Comparisons with Live Booking:
Hotel Comparison sheets allow clients to view multiple hotel options.  New for 2025, clients can now book their preferred hotel directly through the Hotel Comparison tool.

“At Cruise Planners, we’re constantly innovating to equip our advisors with cutting-edge, award-winning marketing tools that make client engagement and business growth effortless,” said Michelle Fee, founder and CEO of Cruise Planners. “By providing fresh, dynamic content with ease, we empower our advisors to focus on what they excel at—crafting unforgettable vacations!”

Cruise Planners announced 20 new and exciting initiatives during their annual convention.  For a full list of those announcements, click here.

Company Background: Cruise Planners was founded in 1994 and is the nation’s largest home-based travel agent franchise network. As a leader in the travel franchise industry, Cruise Planners positions a nation-wide network of 2,500 franchise owners for success by providing innovative marketing programs, proprietary and cutting-edge booking and technology tools, as well as professional development and hands-on training with the industry’s top executives. The company continues to be an industry leader and was named the No.1 travel franchise by Entrepreneur magazine for 18 consecutive years and awarded by Franchise Business Review as “Best-In-Category” for 2 years.

Cruise Planners received a 99% franchise owner satisfaction report from Franchise Business Review for 2024. Franchise Business Review also ranked Cruise Planners #3 OVERALL on their list of Top 200 Franchises of 2022. Cruise Planners was recently featured in Entrepreneur as one of the top 30 franchise innovators in technology, has been consistently named as one of the Top Women-Owned Businesses by the South Florida Business Journal, is on the Inc. 5000 list as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America, and was recognized as one of the Top Workplaces by the Sun Sentinel.

Visit our website, www.cruiseplanners.com, for more information or to view the complete list of awards and honors. For those interested in becoming a franchise owner, please visit https://www.cruiseplannersfranchise.com/

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CCTV+: Explore the Wizard of Oz in Jiangzhong Pharmaceutical Valley

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BEIJING, Oct. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — This is a report from CCTV+:

Want to cool down in the hot summer? Better to explore the Wizard of Oz in Jiangzhong Pharmaceutical Valley. In this wonderful green garden, you can meet muntjacs and birds. The ancient legend of Shennong tasted herbs is also updated in “the most beautiful Chinese factory”. In this summer, Yijun discovered the Jiangzhong Pharmaceutical Valley in Nanchang, Jiangxi. Let’s worship the Statue of Shennong, enjoy the fragrance of TCM materials, and read the myth of “green wisdom” in Jiangxi!                                                                                                                       

Over the past 20 years of operation, Jiangzhong Pharmaceutical Valley has been adhering to the concept of “natural authenticity and green ecology” in building the factory. In the entire process of promoting green ecology, Jiangzhong Pharmaceutical Valley uses renewable energy sources to significantly reduce energy consumption, which can save 2,200 tons of carbon a year just with this alone. Additionally, Jiangzhong Pharmaceutical Valley has reduced energy consumption in the production process through continuous improvement efforts. This has achieved at least 5 million economic benefits of energy saving and consumption reduction in the past five years.

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“PolyU-YUNJI Technology Hotel Digital Intelligence Joint Innovation Lab” Established in Hong Kong

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HONG KONG, Oct. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — From October 11th to 13th, the “IMPACT2024” global hospitality sector event organized by the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) was successfully held at the ICON Hotel in Hong Kong. During the period, the signing ceremony of the “PolyU-YUNJI Technology Hotel Digital Intelligence Joint Innovation Lab” was successfully held at the PolyU.

Beijing Yunji Technology Co., Ltd (“Yunji Technology”) is committed to becoming the world’s leading robot service platform. As of now, it has provided AI + robot services for more than 30,000 hotels, hospitals, projects, and buildings globally. The School of Hotel and Tourism Management of The PolyU SHTM is renowned worldwide. In the academic field of hotel and tourism management, it has consecutively ranked first in the “Tourism and Leisure Management” category of the ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (GRAS) for seven years. In this cooperation, the two sides will combine their advantages to establish an AI and embodied intelligence R&D base with global competitiveness in the industry-university-research-application field.

Professor Wong Kwok-yin, Vice President (EDU) of the PolyU, attended the event and said that the cooperation between the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Yunji Technology Hotel Digital Intelligence Joint Innovation Laboratory will open up new vitality and opportunities for joint research and teaching activities in scientific research projects.

Zhi Tao, Founder and CEO of Yunji Technology, stated, “AI and robotics are now widely applied in hotels, transforming them into ‘smart entities’ that have served over one billion people. This collaboration will not only promote research and application but also accelerate Hong Kong’s development as a ‘technology hub’ alongside its reputation as a ‘financial center.'”

Yunji Technology has established a Hong Kong branch to advance the construction of a local research and development center. Through deepened cooperation in industry, academia, and application, Yunji Technology aims to develop core AI technologies and a strong brand in robotics from China, using Hong Kong as a gateway to lead globally and apply its innovations in international markets.

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GITEX GLOBAL 2024 | Huawei’s Global Optical Summit: Accelerate F5G-A, Amplify Intelligence

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DUBAI, UAE, Oct. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — During GITEX GLOBAL 2024, Huawei Global Optical Summit was successfully held in Dubai, UAE. Themed “Accelerate F5G-A, Amplify Intelligence”, the summit attracted more than 300 industry experts, customers, and partners from many countries around the world. At the summit, focusing on the “3 In 3 Out” trends, Huawei released a series of F5G Advanced (F5G-A) products for the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa.

“The Middle East and Central Asia are the pace-setters for digital economy growth across the world.” Said Steven Yi, President of Huawei Middle East and Central Asia Region. “Having engaged in the Middle East and Central Asia for more than 20 years, Huawei has continuously contributed to local economic and social development with its digital infrastructure, including optical networks. In the intelligent era, optical networks are facing new development opportunities. With the advantages of ultra-high bandwidth, high reliability, and green development, optical networks will play a greater role in industrial intelligence in home, campus, industry production network, and sensing fields. Huawei will work with customers and partners to promote the application of optical technologies in the industry and accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of various industries.”

Bob Chen, President of Huawei Optical Business Product Line, pointed out in his keynote speech that the next decade will be an intelligent one in which the optical industry will face new opportunities of “3 In 3 Out”. For intelligent connectivity, homes and campuses are evolving from gigabit to 10G as optical fibers replace copper cables. This trend has been dubbed “Fiber-in Copper-out”. Moreover, on the industry communications networks of industries like electric power and transportation, SDH is evolving to fgOTN at an increasing pace, which is called “fgOTN-in SDH-out”. For intelligent sensing, in scenarios such as oil and gas pipeline inspection and perimeter inspection, manual onsite operations will be replaced by remote operations. This will require converged sensing such as vision and fiber sensing, which is a trend called “Optical-sensing-in Hard-work-out”.

Focusing on the “3 In 3 Out” trends, Huawei is dedicated to developing innovative products and solutions.

In the ” Fiber-in Copper-out ” campus scenario, Huawei has updated its FTTO 2.0 solution by launching OptiXstar P884E, the industry’s first high-density 10G optical terminal, achieving 25G coverage. Four Huawei OptiXstar series Wi-Fi 7 optical terminals and optical gateways are released for hospitals, hotels, and education networks to develop new standard configuration for digital and intelligent Wi-Fi 7 campuses.

“fgOTN-in SDH-out” scenario, Huawei launched OptiXtrans E6600/9600 — the industry’s first optical transmission product portfolio that offers E2E support for the fgOTN standard, building solid and reliable communications networks for industries such as electric power and transportation.

In terms of “Optical-sensing-in Hard-work-out”, Gavin Gu, President of Huawei’s Enterprise Optical Network Domain, delivered a keynote speech. Gu noted that Huawei has launched the buried optical cable inspection solution to implement proactive warning of cable damage events, achieving an alarm accuracy of 95%, which is industry-leading. This ensures the security of important communications cables for ISPs, carriers, and governments. In addition, Huawei launched the lightweight perimeter inspection solution, which extends the perimeter inspection capability of optical fiber sensing to small-scale campus scenarios such as substations, oil and gas stations, and data centers.

Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to innovate and work with all global customers and partners to seize new “3 In 3 Out” opportunities, and to accelerate industrial intelligence, achieving win-win results in the intelligent era.

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