European Waterways Enhances Travel Agent Booking Tools

    NEW YORK, NY, December 19, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- For travel agents and tour operators, selling European Waterways' unique luxury hotel barge cruising vacations to their clients can be as easy as "point and click," according to Managing Director Derek Banks. "We have been expanding our sales staff and enhancing our sales tools to ensure all our agents receive timely, superior service on every call or correspondence."

Among these tools is a secure, password-protected agent website, where a user-friendly reservations system allows them to check availability and pricing, make reservations online for clients, and download sales and marketing material such as brochures and photographs. Many agents have already signed up. New agents can simply email [email protected] and request an account from the sales team. Full details are also available on the Travel Agents area of the website GoBarging.com.

European Waterways also continues to expand its Vimeo channel at http://vimeo.com/album/2303918, where a wide range of short "white label" video clips are available to agents. They can embed these videos on their own websites, use in e-marketing campaigns, or forward to their clients. Professionally produced, these videos are especially powerful in taking viewers on a virtual tour of some of the most popular hotel barge cruises and the beautiful destinations they travel to in France, Holland, Italy and the British Isles.

European Waterways also recently hired Debbie Petermann, former owner of boating holiday company Le Boat, to enhance its sales efforts by establishing a U.S.-based office to respond to travel agent queries. It also brought onboard the experienced Mark Robinson as Sales and Reservations Manager in the U.K. office to lead its sales team and continue its highly personalized service to travel agents.

European Waterways also offers at least a 10% commission on all bookings. For more information, visit http://www.gobarging.com or call Toll Free 1-877-879-8808.

About European Waterways
The hotel barging experience is different from large vessel river cruising. It offers a slower paced, "gentle voyage of discovery" along the more intimate canals and waterways of Europe, allowing a small number of guests to become more fully immersed in the culture, history and gastronomy of the region. European Waterways is Europe's largest all-inclusive luxury hotel barging company, offering vacations in nine countries and carrying over 2,000 passengers a year. Founded nearly 40 years ago, they own, operate and market a private fleet of luxury hotel barges with cruises in France, Italy, Scotland, Ireland, England, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Pioneers in hotel barging, they were the first company to operate a hotel barge on the Upper Nivernais in Burgundy, and the "real" Loire Valley. They are also the only cruise company offering barge cruises in Scotland and in the Venetian lagoon and River Po valley. Please visit http://www.gobarging.com for more information. See our Special Offers at http://www.gobarging.com/special-offers.php#offers.

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