The Cruise Stars Awards include categories for Travel Agents and the Cruise Lines/ Brands that serve the Cruise holiday sector. Please find a list of categories below. Click on the button to enter.
The deadline to submit your entry is Monday, 9th September. Don’t miss your chance to become a Cruise Star!
Cruise Lines/Brand Criteria
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Cruise Line Sales Star
This category is open to individuals working in sales roles within cruise lines, cruise brands or their representatives in the UK. Entrants need to demonstrate how they have increased revenue, yields, customer numbers and improved account management and customer relationships.
Cruise Line PR & Marketing Star
This category is open to individuals working within marketing and PR teams within cruise lines, cruise brands or their representatives in the UK. Entrants need to demonstrate how they have delivered campaign objectives and how the outcome of their activities has delivered definable benefits to their business.
Mentoring Star of the Year
This category is open to individuals working for a cruise line who’ve consistently helped grow and mentor their colleagues over the last year. Entrants need to demonstrate the influential role they played in an individual’s or individuals’ development, explaining how they helped them reach their targets and what challenges they helped them overcome along the way
Cruise Line Management Star
This category is open to individuals who manage teams or departments within cruise lines, cruise brands or their representatives in the UK. Entrants need to demonstrate excellent leadership and team management skills, strategic and commercial direction and how they have made an impact within their business.
Trade Sales Star
This category is open to individuals working in a trade-facing sales role within cruise lines, cruise brands or their representatives in the UK. Entrants need to demonstrate how they successfully engaged with travel agents in order to increase revenue, yields and customer numbers while building the line’s trade relationships.
Rising Cruise Star of the Year
This category is open to exceptional individuals who’ve worked in the cruise industry for a maximum of three years, and since joining have shown enormous potential in their field. Entrants must demonstrate how their passion and willingness to learn has helped them exceed their targets and drive innovation within the cruise line. This is a brand-new category which is designed to celebrate those who’ve demonstrated excellence at the very beginning of their career in the cruise industry who have a bright future ahead of them.
Star of the Year
This category is open to all individuals working for a cruise line who’ve gone above and beyond all others in the sector. This award looks to celebrate the exemplary cruise line employee who’s personified the brand’s values and delivered success for the company, whether it’s through increased sales, employee training or executing that winning marketing message.
Travel Agent Criteria
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Travel Agent Marketing Star
This category is open to individuals working within travel agency businesses in the UK. Entrants need to demonstrate how they have delivered campaign objectives and how the outcome of their activities has delivered definable benefits to their business.
Travel Agent Management Star
This category is open to individuals working within travel agency businesses in the UK. Entrants need to demonstrate excellent leadership and team management skills, strategic and commercial direction and how they have made an impact within their business.
Regional Travel Agent Sales Star of the Year
(North of England & Scotland)
This category is open to individuals working as travel agents in the UK. Entrants need to demonstrate how they have grown their personal cruise sales and how they have achieved this from new business generation, outstanding customer service and understanding of cruise products and their customer base.
Regional Travel Agent Sales Star of the Year
(South of England & Wales)
This category is open to individuals working as travel agents in the UK. Entrants need to demonstrate how they have grown their personal cruise sales and how they have achieved this from new business generation, outstanding customer service and understanding of cruise products and their customer base.
National Travel Agent Sales Star
This category is open to individuals working as travel agents in the UK. Entrants need to demonstrate how they have grown their personal cruise sales, and how they have achieved this from new business generation, outstanding customer service and understanding of cruise products and their customer base.
River Sales Star of the Year
This category is open to individuals working for a travel agency business in the UK who’ve gone above and beyond to promote river cruise holidays to their clients. Entrants need to demonstrate how they have grown their personal river cruise sales and how they have achieved this from new business generation, outstanding customer service and understanding of cruise products and their customer base.
Mentoring Star of the Year
This category is open to individuals working for a travel agency business in the UK who’ve consistently helped grow and mentor their colleagues over the last year. Entrants need to demonstrate the influential role they played in an individual’s or individuals’ development, explaining how they helped them reach their targets and what challenges they helped them overcome along the way.
Rising Star of the Year
This category is open to exceptional individuals who’ve worked in the industry for a maximum of three years, and since joining have shown enormous potential in their field. Entrants must demonstrate how their passion and willingness to learn has helped them exceed their targets and drive innovation in their agency. This is a brand-new category which is designed to celebrate those who’ve demonstrated excellence at the very beginning of their career in the cruise industry who have a bright future ahead of them.
Expedition Sales Star of the Year
This category is open to individuals working for a travel agency business in the UK who’ve gone above and beyond to promote expedition cruise holidays to their clients. Entrants need to demonstrate how they have grown their personal river cruise sales and how they have achieved this from new business generation, outstanding customer service and understanding of cruise products and their customer base.
Homeworking Star of the Year
This category is open to homeworking travel agents who work independently or as part of a consortia. Entrants need to demonstrate how they have grown their personal cruise sales and how they have achieved this from new business generation, outstanding customer service and understanding of cruise products and their customer base.
Travel Agent Star of the Year
This category is open to individuals working within travel agency businesses in the UK. Entrants need to demonstrate how they have delivered campaign objectives and how the outcome of their activities has delivered definable benefits to their business.
Other Categories
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Above and Beyond Star
This category is open to those who have used their skills and knowledge to go ‘above and beyond’ to help grow the cruise industry. This could be in the form of taking on additional tasks, mentoring others, spreading awareness, and using their initiative to develop new ideas and concepts.
Trainer Star of the Year
This category is open to individuals working within the cruise sector. Entrants need to demonstrate how their training activity has benefitted their organisation and supported the career developments of others.
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