All-Inclusive Cruises a Smart Choice for Business

Are you wondering if a cruise ship is an appropriate venue for your business event? Check out the May 2010 issue of Corporate & Incentive Travel Magazine. It includes a feature story by Andrea Montello, “All-Inclusives – The Smart Choice, Now More Than Ever”. The writer interviewed Seasite CEO Jo Kling, who shared why a [...]

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MeetingsNet Reveals Landry’s Recipe for a Life of Magic

Landry & Kling CEO Joyce Landry lives a life of passion and adventure. She has sailed to some of the most exotic ports in the world, shaken hands with two U.S. presidents, trekked solo in the Himalayas and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro – she even got married at the summit! She’s a gold medal athlete who [...]

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Ship Planner Guides Show Meeting and Dining Capacities

Have You Used Seasite’s Ship Planner Guides? If not, you’re missing the boat! Sure, there are lots of beautiful brochures and enticing cruise line websites out there… for vacation planners. But pretty pictures and ship descriptions don’t tell you what you need to know – like what ship & itinerary is the best fit for [...]

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CLIA Update on Oil Spill and Cruises

The ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues to dominate the news. But how does the disaster affect the cruise industry? Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) is  monitoring the situation, and assures the public that at the current time, no cruise operations are being negatively impacted and member cruise ships sailing from Gulf and Mexico and [...]

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Top 10 Reasons Meeting Planners Love Celebrity’s Premium Ships for Incentives and Meetings at Sea

Smart planners know that using today’s “floating hotels” for their group events can save 20 – 40% when compared to a land-based program. And they’re discovering that Celebrity Cruises’ premium ships are great venues to motivate, inspire, and meet their business objectives. With the introduction of the spectacular new Solstice-class ships and “Solsticized” Millennium-class ships, [...]

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Seeing Double: All-Inclusive Twin Yacht Charters

A PROGRAM REPORT BY LANDRY & KLING’S RAMON SANTOS, VP GLOBAL SALES: I recently had the opportunity to sail on a Sea Dream Yacht with one of our corporate clients, and I’m eager to share my incredible experience. For a group of 220, out client chartered both identical 112-passenger SeaDream Yachts  – SeaDream I and [...]

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Joyce Landry Joins Governing Group of WBENC

Many corporations and government agencies track their spending with women-owned and other diversity suppliers and look to the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) as a supplier resource. In 2006, after undergoing a rigorous review process, Landry & Kling achieved national certification from WBENC as a Women’s Business Enterprise. Joyce Landry, CEO of Landry & [...]

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How to Join the Meetings Technology Revolution

MEETINGS TECHNOLOGY HEADQUARTERS For great advice on implementing meeting and events technology, Corbin Ball leads the pack.  In this recent article from our favorite tech guru, Corbin talks about how the meeting industry is adapting to the technology revolution, and offers key steps to fully implement technology tools: 2010: The Meetings Technology Revolution – Are [...]

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New Online Community for Meeting & Event Planners

Our Seasite.com users have been asking for a social media platform to connect with other meeting and event professionals. And they will soon have it.  A strategic partnership between Seasite and i-Meet.com will give our cruise meeting planners the opportunity to network and communicate with i-Meet’s fast-growing global network of 20,000 industry professionals. Here’s the [...]

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An Office Party to Cheer About- L&K Runs for Charity

Talk about a super-sized office party! More than 20,000 walkers and runners from over 500 South Florida businesses gathered in downtown Miami last Thursday to show their company pride and work up a sweat for charity. Landry & Kling’s Debi Madansky promoted and organized the event for our company, and 13 athletes from Team Landry [...]

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