Cruise Planners Launches Another Innovative Tool Making Lives of Advisors Easier

Coral Springs, Fla., Feb. 28, 2025—Cruise Planners, the nation’s largest home-based travel agency franchise network, proudly unveils Hotel Sheets. A groundbreaking feature now live within CP Maxx. Designed with travel advisors, and their clients in mind, Hotel Sheets redefines the way customized hotel proposals are created, shared, and booked.

With this state-of-the-art tool, advisors can curate personalized hotel proposals that feature detailed property descriptions, star ratings, high-resolution photos, and a comprehensive list of amenities. Hotel Sheets empowers clients to browse agent selected room rates based on their preferred accommodations, and book rooms directly through the agent’s website, or request additional information on rooms that are unavailable, providing unparalleled convenience and flexibility.

Key Features:

  • Global Selection: Access rooms and rates from over 2 million properties worldwide, all with live pricing to ensure clients see up-to-date rates for their chosen room categories.
  • Seamless Integration: Fully embedded in CP Maxx, Hotel Sheets offers an intuitive, advisor-centric workflow.
  • Customizable Commissions: Advisors can apply markups or discounts to commissions, ensuring complete control over pricing strategies.
  • Client Empowerment: Clients can book directly from the Hotel Sheets proposals, streamlining the entire process and enhancing satisfaction.

Cruise Planners remains the only host travel agency offering a fully integrated AI-powered workflow for advisors. Unlike off-the-shelf products, Hotel Sheets has been meticulously tailored to meet the unique needs of the Cruise Planners community, emphasizing ease of use, efficiency, and superior client engagement.

Our new Hotel Sheets tool revolutionizes the advisor-client relationship by integrating cutting-edge AI technology with live booking capabilities,” said founder and CEO of Cruise Planners, Michelle Fee. “This feature embodies Cruise Planners’ commitment to innovation and providing advisors with the most comprehensive tools to grow their business.”

Cruise Planners continues to lead the travel industry with proprietary tools like CP Maxx, ensuring franchise owners are equipped to maximize efficiency, elevate client experiences, and achieve success.

Company Background: Cruise Planners was founded in 1994 and is the nation’s largest home-based travel agent franchise network. As a leader in the travel franchise industry, Cruise Planners positions a nation-wide network of 2,500 franchise owners for success by providing innovative marketing programs, proprietary and cutting-edge booking and technology tools, as well as professional development and hands-on training with the industry’s top executives. The company continues to be an industry leader and was named the No.1 travel franchise by Entrepreneur magazine for 18 consecutive years and awarded by Franchise Business Review as “Best-In-Category” for 2 years.

Cruise Planners received a 99% franchise owner satisfaction report from Franchise Business Review for 2024. Franchise Business Review also ranked Cruise Planners #3 OVERALL on their list of Top 200 Franchises of 2022. Cruise Planners was recently featured in Entrepreneur as one of the top 30 franchise innovators in technology, has been consistently named as one of the Top Women-Owned Businesses by the South Florida Business Journal, is on the Inc. 5000 list as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America, and was recognized as one of the Top Workplaces by the Sun Sentinel.

Visit our website, www.cruiseplanners.com, for more information or to view the complete list of awards and honors. For those interested in becoming a franchise owner, please visit https://www.cruiseplannersfranchise.com/. 

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