Youtravel.com Renews EasyCruise Deal

Accommodation specialist youtravel.com has renewed its distribution deal with easyCruise for a second year and is aiming to increase bookings for its ship easyCruise Life by 20 percent in 2009.

Both parties heralded the first year of the partnership as a “complete success” with trade sales through youtravel.com making up a significant of proportion of its UK sales. Bookings from the UK account for around 50 percent of overall sales for easyCruise.

Youtravel.com and easyCruise are planning another joint trade fam trip for Spring 2009 for between 25 and 30 agents following on from the popularity of this year’s trip, and both are expecting demand to be high.