PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Riverside Luxury Cruises and Jerne Partner to Streamline Fams for Travel Advisors
13 August 2024 – Riverside Luxury Cruises (www.riverside-cruises.com), the all-suite, European luxury river cruise company, and Jerne (www.jerne.com), the leading platform connecting influential travel curators and experience providers, have partnered to offer a simplified solution for the cruise line and travel advisors to manage hundreds of hosted and self-guided river cruise familiarization opportunities.
“According to our survey of hundreds of top travel advisors, their priority is experiencing new product that they can share with their top clients,” said Tim Morgan, CEO, Jerne. “By partnering with the exceptional Riverside product, we are able to provide exactly what they’re looking for in order to build new sales for themselves and their agency.”
Celebrating its recent top 10 favorite cruise line rating by readers of Travel + Leisure, Riverside is offering travel advisors the ability to apply for guided experiences aboard more than 500 voyages on the Danube, Rhine, Rhône, Moselle and Main rivers through December 2025. Managed through the Jerne platform, travel advisors will be able to build a profile that tells the story of their business; search and apply for familiarization opportunities that align with their product focus; and manage and share all of the content that they’ve created during their experience – providing valuable ROI to Riverside and to both the travel advisor and their travel agency.
“Partnering with Jerne gives us an efficient and effective platform to manage the vetting, application process, and marketing opportunity related to hosting travel advisors,” said Jen Halboth, CEO of Riverside Luxury Cruises. “Riverside values Travel Advisors’ indispensable role in creating unforgettable experiences for their clients and we understand it’s important to experience a travel product firsthand. When they see it, they sell it. we can’t wait for more travel advisors to share all of the beautiful experiences they see with Riverside and recommend us!”
Using Jerne’s verification process and proprietary matching technology, and while all travel advisors are invited to apply, travel advisors with over US$1.5M in annual sales will receive preferred access to Riverside familiarization opportunities across the line’s European fleet of all-suite ships. Through Jerne’s recent acquisition of The 1000, a club for the world’s most influential travel advisors, Riverside automatically has access to inviting Jerne’s existing top travel advisors with cumulative verified annual sales exceeding US$1 billion (https://www.jerne.com/jerne-celebrates-travel-advisors-hitting-one-billion-dollars-in-verified-sales/) to experience the Riverside difference.
“Riverside has been making waves in the industry with their stunning ship interiors, exceptional food, and incredible service,” said Morgan. “We’re pleased to make it easier for travel advisors to discover Riverside and rave about it to their clients through the offline and online sharing of content – the epitome of influence.”
Travel advisors can learn more and apply at https://riverside.jerne.app/register.
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ABOUT RIVERSIDE LUXURY CRUISES
Riverside Luxury Cruises is Europe’s newest and most luxurious river cruise line offering distinctive vacations on the Rhine, Rhône, Danube, Moselle, and Main rivers. The all-suites Riverside Mozart, Riverside Ravel, and newly inaugurated Riverside Debussy offer the most spacious accommodations, highest staff-to-guest ratio, and more onboard amenities than other river lines. On all itineraries, the ships stay late or overnight in some of Europe’s most captivating towns and cities, so guests can immerse in authentic cultures and the destination’s social life. Throughout, every member of Riverside’s exceptional staff and crew deliver intuitive and personalised service for an all-inclusive and luxurious experience. On board, guests enjoy butler service in every suite; gourmet cuisine made with high-quality, fresh ingredients a la minute; included premium wines and spirits; complimentary StarLink broadband Wi-Fi; unlimited shore excursions to immerse in Europe’s history, cultures and landmarks; prepaid gratuities; and complimentary ground transfers. Riverside Luxury Cruises is a winner in Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Awards for 2024 and Cruise Critic’s 2023 Editors’ Pick Award for Best Dining in the River Category. For more information about Riverside Luxury Cruises, travel advisors can visit and register at www.Riverside-Cruises.com/TA.
ABOUT JERNE
Jerne is the world’s leading platform connecting hundreds of experience providers (hotels, cruise lines, tour operators, restaurants, spas, and every experiential product in between) around the world with thousands of influential travel curators (influencers, content creators, bloggers, travel advisors, and more) in over 100 countries, forming a new channel for travel marketing and sales. Jerne is also notably the Official Creator Economy Partner of Forbes Travel Guide.
For experience providers, Jerne’s end-to-end curator management platform simplifies travel curator sourcing, verification, agreement administration, content management, affiliate booking attribution, commission incentive reconciliation, earned media analytics, ROI reporting, and re-marketing via MyJerne – unlocking the full power of the travel curator distribution channel with Jerne’s proprietary inspiration engine. For travel curators, Jerne’s hundreds of experience provider partnerships open access to thousands of hosted experience opportunities with hotels, restaurants, spas, cruises, tours, and other travel and hospitality experiences that they can share with their community and earn incentives on attributable bookings.
Jerne was co-founded in 2021 by Tim Morgan and Ryan McElroy who have a combined 40 years of travel industry experience, both having worked for or served on advisory boards of many of the world’s leading travel companies. Formerly overseeing Canada & EMEA for Virtuoso, Morgan also co-founded The 1000 (acquired by Jerne), a $3 billion club for the world’s most influential travel advisors. McElroy also co-founded Travel Agency Tribes, a provider of B2B2C travel marketing technologies used by thousands of travel companies and consumers every day. (www.jerne.com)
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