Every year, the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) recognizes the travel industry’s best suppliers and partners for their efforts to go above and beyond in their support of the trade and ASTA’s broader advocacy efforts.
AmaWaterways received three awards for 2024, announced at ASTA’s 30MAY Global Convention.
For the second year in a row (sixth time in its history), AmaWaterways earned ASTA’s highest award – Partner of the Year. Kristin Karst, AmaWaterways co-founder and executive vice president, was named Partner Representative of the Year – for the second year in a row, and the line is honoured to be recognized as ASTA’s River Cruise Partner of the Year - for the ninth year in a row.
“We are blessed every year with numerous awards, and they are all so important and appreciated,” said Karst, who was present to accept the awards at the ASTA Global Convention in Dallas. “The ones we get from ASTA are especially gratifying and humbling as these are decided upon by ASTA’s travel advisor members, who collectively represent more than 80% of all travel sold in the United States. Our commitment to support the education and professional development ASTA provides to its members is as sincere and deep as it was over 20 years ago when we launched our first river ship.”
AmaWaterways provides robust support for travel advisors with an array of tools and resources. These include digital marketing toolkits, FAM opportunities as well as Seminar on the River cruises and weekly Webinar Wednesdays. Additionally, AmaWaterways has recently introduced a guest-facing online booking engine that facilitates convenient 24/7 reservation capability integrated into travel advisors’ co-branded AmaWaterways websites.
“Whether new to the travel industry or a seasoned advisor, travel partners can count on our teams to provide the training and support needed to grow their river cruise business with AmaWaterways,” said Alex Pinelo, AmaWaterways senior vice president of sales.
“Together, we look forward to continuing to live up to this recognition and serving the travel advisor community as we launch exciting new itineraries, new ships and new destinations such as Colombia next year.”
