Carnival Honors America’s Vacation Center, Cruise Line Ltd.

Carnival Cruise Lines has named America’s Vacation Center and The Cruise Line Ltd. as its travel agencies of the year for 2007.

The two agencies were selected from among more than 30,000 cruise-selling agencies throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Travel agencies that demonstrate exceptional professionalism, enthusiasm and innovation in sales and marketing techniques are nominated based on feedback from Carnival’s business development managers, who are based throughout North America and work in partnership with travel agents.

The two award recipients have each achieved a high level of success by employing different business models, according to Carnival.

While each has developed a national network of home-based agents, America’s Vacation Center focuses on developing a worldwide network of home-based, independently owned and operated affiliates, while The Cruise Line Ltd. takes a more traditional agency approach by encouraging local agents to concentrate on their local communities from virtual home-based offices.