What an honour it was this past weekend to accept two World Cruise Awards at the 2024 Grand Final Ceremony held at the magnificent Savoy Palace Hotel on the island of Madeira.
Cruise Vacations, carrying our SA Flags with pride accepted the awards for Africa’s Best Cruise Travel Agency (our third in a row in that category), but in a first for any South African agency we also accepted the award for the World’s Best Cruise Travel Agency.
It is humbling for us as a Team to realise that so many of our clients, travel agents and principals voted in our favour to the extent that we came out top of the World at this year’s awards. On hearing about our awards, we took time to reflect on how far we have come and to some extent question how our, not small, yet boutique agency achieved the highest honour in our category.
This has led us to realise that the company culture we have created and deeply value is translating into success and as proud as we are to have a trophy cabinet to affirm that, we are more proud that we have found a winning formula which has now been acknowledged on a global scale.
We are very clear on our core values, firstly the well-being our Team, offering excellent service at all times, strong communication and relationship with our incredible Cruise Line Principals but also ensuring an unwavering Sustainability ‘manifesto’, that, even as a relatively small business monitors our environmental footprint but also supports local communities, charities and businesses.
Celebrating these Awards has been a fitting way to end off what has been our most successful year to-date. We hope that we can inspire other small or boutique businesses into setting out and reaching their goals. By gaining global acknowledgement for the African Outbound Tourist market, we hope it encourages people to keep business local!
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