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CruiseDirect.com Wins 2024 Magellan Award for Marina: An AI-Powered Journey to the Perfect Cruise
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Morristown, NJ – CruiseDirect.com is proud to have won the prestigious 2024 Travel Weekly Magellan Award in the category of Travel Advisor Organizations in recognition of its cutting-edge AI beta technology, “Marina.” This accolade highlights CruiseDirect’s first significant step into artificial intelligence, underscoring its commitment to innovation and enhancing the customer experience.
While “Marina” is still in beta, CruiseDirect plans a public test launch in November, allowing users to experience firsthand how this AI-driven feature will revolutionize the way cruises are researched and booked. This marks a significant milestone in the company’s ongoing mission to simplify and personalize the cruise planning process.
“We’re thrilled to receive such an esteemed award for ‘Marina,’” said John Maguire, CEO of CruiseDirect.com. “This AI initiative represents a new frontier for us, and we’re confident it will set a new standard in the travel industry. Our goal is to leverage AI to create a more seamless, intuitive, and tailored booking experience for our customers.”
The Travel Weekly Magellan Awards recognize the best in the travel industry across various segments, including hospitality, online travel services, cruise lines, airlines, travel agents, and more. The awards are judged by a distinguished panel of top travel professionals, evaluating entries on their innovative approaches and impact on the industry.
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Jope Mendoza | jmendoza@cruisedirect.com
About CruiseDirect
CruiseDirect is an online cruise booking engine that makes the vacation planning process fast and friendly. CruiseDirect uses the latest advances in technology, such as live pricing and availability, to simplify online cruise vacation research, planning, and booking. The CruiseDirect website provides customers with rich, inspiring content to help ease the decision-making process and partners with the best cruise suppliers in the business to ensure that customers will always get the lowest price on their cruise vacations. For more information, please visit https://www.cruisedirect.com/.
About the Travel Weekly Magellan Awards
Travel Weekly is proud to present the Travel Weekly Magellan Awards. From design to marketing to services, the Travel Weekly Magellan Awards honors the best in travel and salutes the outstanding travel professionals behind it all. Winners are featured in an October issue of Travel Weekly that will include a section dedicated to this year’s winners and will also receive a custom produced statuette. More information can be found at https://www.travelweeklyawards.com/winners/.