I'm delighted - as I risked saying it was such a good idea - that cruisepricescompared.com, the on-line cruise market place that I wrote exclusively about in Travel Weekly this month, seems to have been a big hit with agents.
Harley Van Straten, who has gone from being the man behind the idea to managing director of the website - where agents can post cruise deals for free - said he was inundated with 150 independent agent registrations within days of the website going live.
Demand has been so high that it has been opened up to members of the Global Travel Group as well as ABTA and Travel Trust Association agents.
I'm amazed how well everything has gone. When I set this up I would have been happy with 50 registrations in the first week and we've already achieved three times that number with more coming on each day.
Van Straten now has to make part two of the business work - namely making consumers aware of the site so they can go in and book the offers posted by agents.
Any registered agents out there? Let me know how it goes.
Jane Archer
