The Cruise One Inc., Home Based Franchise

Cruise One is part of World Travel Holdings one of the largest leisure travel companies in the United States. Cruise One was founded in 1989 and is based out of beautiful Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The company sells cruise packages and sea tours to individuals, couples, businesses, and groups of people through over 400 agents. Cruise One proudly offers a satisfaction guarantee and claims if you are not happy with a cruise you purchased from them they will refund the unused portion of your cruise and pay for the cost of flying you back to your port of origin. The company began offering its business concept as a franchise opportunity in the early nineties.

Franchise buyers of a Cruise One franchise are offered eight days of training at company headquarters and is assigned a mentor from the member services and customer care departments of Cruise One. The company also offers additional, but optional, training through seminars at sea which last from three to seven days, regional meetings, and at the company's yearly national conference. Continuing support is also offered through internet resources, newsletters, and a toll free phone line. Marketing support is provided to franchisees through a co-op advertising program and several turnkey tools and marketing programs.

At the time this page was put together the initial franchise fee for a Cruise One franchise was approximately nine thousand eight-hundred dollars. The company estimates the total investment required to be a franchise to be in the approximate range of nine thousand eight-hundred dollars to twenty-five thousand four-hundred dollars.         

For more information about this franchise opportunity you can visit the company website here.   

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