Little extras add up to great events

It’s the extra little touches that make your cruise program so phenomenal. Watch what goes on behind the scenes as Landry & Kling staff prepare for an upcoming meeting at sea.  Vicki Fernandez and Karlyn Lang explain.

L&K Celebrates Blue-footed Booby Day

Did you notice an unusual number of your colleagues sporting blue socks or blue shoes last Friday?  Well, of course, June 18 was “Blue-footed Booby Day”!
What’s that? You have no clue what a blue-footed booby is? Obviously, you’ve never had the good fortune to visit the Galapagos Islands, where these charismatic birds reside. But Landry [...]

Ship to Shore Events – Landry & Kling Partners with MCI

What do you get when seasoned cruise event specialists team up with a leading global event management company? A dynamic partnership that gives meeting and event planners all the support they need to create successful ship and shore events.
Here is the press release announcing Landry & Kling’s alliance partnership with MCI Group.

Landry & [...]

From Tourism Executives: Joyce Landry – The Port in a Storm

A new global ezine called TourismExecutives.com focuses exclusively on leadership in the hospitality, travel and tourism industry. We’re pleased (but not surprised) that the editor chose Landry & Kling CEO Joyce Landry as the featured executive to represent the travel industry in the the magazine’s premiere issue.
In the profile, Joyce Landry: The Port in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 & King and [...]

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 [...]

Your New Cruise Line Insider

With 14 new ships launched in 2009 and 21 more on the horizon, the cruise lines are eager to fill their ships by hosting more meetings, incentives and other corporate groups onboard. The evidence? We’re seeing an increase in short itineraries, more US departure ports, and affordable group pricing.
And now,  for the first time in [...]

Meet Landry & Kling and Seasite.com’s New COO – Mark Phillips

In 1982, cruise veterans Joyce Landry and Jo Kling formed a business partnership that pioneered the concept of “meetings at sea”. Over the years, Landry & Kling, Inc. has provided hundreds of cruise solutions for corporate meetings and incentive groups, as well as dockside charters for global events, and other events at sea. Last fall [...]