Carnival Cruise Line will carve out four new sales
territories in fast-growing areas of the country, each to be headed by a business
development manager.
At the same time, Carnival made other changes to its sales
structure, including the formation of a program to focus management attention on
independent agents.
The four new territories are Boston and Rhode Island;
Jacksonville, Fla.; western Texas; and the four corners region that includes
parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado.
Carnival also highlighted the formation of a new groups desk
that was inaugurated earlier in October. The desk is designed to provide
additional technical support for travel agent questions related to group
bookings, Carnival said. It can be reached at (800) 327-5782.
"We created these new sales regions and the independent
agent program to provide added business development support for travel
partners," said Carnival vice president of sales and trade marketing
Adolfo Perez. "The growth in these geographies and the independent agent
channel, combined with our recent preferred supplier agreements with
Travelsavers/Nest, Signature and Ensemble, make this the right time for us to
expand our field team resources."