By Jeff Kivet
Chairman and CEO

If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life, is the mantra for us at Cruise Value Center (CVC), the largest family owned cruise agency in the U.S.
We are dedicated to helping independent Home Based travel agents achieve success and live the dream.
We want Cruise Value Center’s Affiliate program, now with 150 members, to grow and be the first choice of an affiliation for Home Based cruise selling independent agents. With sales in excess of $75 million, CVC has proven its value to agents and cruise lines.
The Affiliate program is also breaking new ground in cruise sales.
CVC is at once a Host agency for Affiliates, a consortium with a growing information technology platform and a custom broker of cruises.
We can provide Affiliates with the best, most competitive pricing in the industry, affordable technology and personalized hands-on service and support.
CVC agent sales range from $150,000 to $2 million-plus.
Successful cruise selling agents face intense competition, including the Internet. Agents must have daily information at their disposal to succeed in a tough, price sensitive market. CVC’s investment in blocked cruise space, coupled with the support of cruise lines gives CVC agents a major edge.

A CVC Affiliation offers a number of key advantages:
• Outstanding professional support 24/7;
• Special purchase rates with thousands of groups a year available for Affiliates to book;
• CVC works with all major cruise lines and land/tour operators;
• Highest commissions in the industry — we receive up to 20% or more from the cruise & tour suppliers — nobody has higher; You receive up to 100% of these commissions. Affiliates retain 43% commission on preferred insurance — unheard of in the industry. That’s 43% in your pocket!!
• Free errors and omissions insurance;
• Training available to agents new to the industry;
• Opportunities for ship visitations and fam trips;
• Programs tailored to the Affiliates’ expertise;
• Programs targeting repeat and first time cruisers;
• Experienced management and top achiever status with cruise lines;
• Ability to have own consumer online booking engine;
• We have the Best Deals out there!!!

CVC remains on the cutting edge of technology, making the booking process (including groups) easier for affiliates. CVC online booking capabilities offer live inventory. CVC’s Internet marketing has grown to be an industry power house.
While I have been pleased with CVC’s growth and success, I am also looking forward to new opportunities for CVC and its Affiliate network. This includes breaking the $100 million in sales benchmark and exploring new CVC vacation and tour options.
Tour programs will have the advantage of giving Affiliates new selling opportunities and higher override commissions. CVC’s Tour Value Center is already online. CVC is also expanding its block air capabilities with Sabre Travel Network technology.
Affiliated agents get real advantages — in education and training, marketing and technology and management tools that give them a competitive edge and assist them to build viable businesses.
Increasingly, cruise lines are rewarding performance, professionalism and productivity. They are asking travel agents to work with them on marketing programs and to use more efficient technologies that cut booking costs. CVC Affiliates will be at the forefront of these changes.
CVC is a member of Ensemble Travel Group, ASTA, CLIA, NACOA and NACTA.
CVC invites travel agents to explore the options and opportunities available to them with CVC’s Affiliate program by contacting Cruise Value Center’s Affiliate department at hostinfo@cruisevalue.com or calling (800) 231-7447 or visiting www.cruisevalue.com.

6 Edgeboro Road
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
(800) 231-7447 • (732) 257-4545
Fax: 732-390-7438
E-mail: hostinfo@cruisevalue.com
www.cruisevalue.com

Jeffrey Kivet, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Paula Kivet, President
Ross Spalding, Senior Vice President

National Host Agency
Year Organization Started: 1992
Years in Hosting Status: 13 (since 1994)
Estimated 2006 sales in U.S.: $75 Million
Number of U.S. Independent Contractors: 150
Commission Splits Available: Up to 100%
Initial Contracting Fee: None
Annual Renewal Fee: None
Consortium Affiliation: Ensemble Travel

Special Services for contractors:
Outstanding professionals who support Affiliates seven days a week, 24/7; Special purchase rates with thousands of groups a year available for Affiliates to book; CVC works with all major cruise lines; Highest commissions in the industry - we get up to 20% or more from suppliers — nobody has higher; Affiliates retain 43% commission on preferred insurance — unheard of in the industry; Free Errors and Omissions insurance; Training available to agents new to the industry; Opportunities for ship visitations and fam trips.

Organization values statement:
T.E.A.M., Together Everyone Achieves More. If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life. We are dedicated to helping independent home based travel agents achieve success and live the dream.

Goals for contractor network:
We are dedicated to helping independent home based travel agents achieve success and live the dream. We want Cruise Value Center’s Affiliate program to grow and be the first choice of an affiliation for home based cruise and tour selling independent agents. CVC and its Affiliates are uniquely positioned to exploit the sustained growth in cruise sales and to develop profitable businesses.