Holland America Offers 101 Agent Spring Seminars

Holland America Line will host 101 business-building seminars for home based travel agents in cities across the United States and Canada this spring. These 90-minute seminars will focus on increasing business with Holland America's diverse itineraries, booking groups for bigger profits, and an overview of sales tools available to agents, including POLAR Online.

"As part of the home based travel agent training program, these seminars provide key concepts and selling tools useful to our travel agent partners," said Tracey Kelly, vice president of sales for Holland America Line. "Agents will walk away from the seminar with concrete ideas to help them increase their business in this competitive marketplace along with the knowledge of what tools we have available to help them succeed."

Seminars run from April 3 through June 6, 2007. Seminar topics include: Increase Your Business and Revenue; Book Groups for Bigger Profit; and Access Sales Tools That Make a Difference to Your Bottom Line. Seminar reservations are for travel agents only and are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Those interested in attending must provide the attendee's name, name of travel agency, IATA number, business phone number and seminar city, date and location. Some locations are limited to two attendees per agency IATA. Travel sellers may RSVP online at www.springseminars.com or call 800-355-3019. For more information, visit www.hollandamerica.com.