{"id":20475,"date":"2013-11-29T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/aussie-and-kiwi-agents-become-clia-masters-at-sea-2\/"},"modified":"2013-11-29T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T09:17:00","slug":"aussie-and-kiwi-agents-become-clia-masters-at-sea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/11\/aussie-and-kiwi-agents-become-clia-masters-at-sea-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie and Kiwi Agents Become CLIA Masters at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">A group of more than 60 Australian and New Zealand travel agents have spent eight nights cruising the South Pacific as part of CLIA Australasia\u2019s Masters Conference.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">US-based sales guru and motivator Scott Koepf was at the helm of his 15<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Masters, an annual CLIA Australasia event which combines intensive training sessions with a first-hand cruise experience. This year\u2019s conference was spent on Carnival Cruise Lines\u2019 Carnival Spirit on a roundtrip Pacific Islands cruise from Sydney in late November.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Masters participants attended a series of sessions to help them sharpen their sales and marketing techniques.&nbsp;Between seminars they enjoyed the thrill of Carnival Spirit\u2019s Green Thunder slide as well as visits to Noumea and the Isle of Pines in New Caledonia and idyllic Mare in the Loyalty Islands.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u201cThis year\u2019s Masters Conference was a huge success with agents gaining invaluable knowledge and tools to remain at the top of their game, while also experiencing all the fun onboard Carnival Spirit,\u201d CLIA Australasia General Manager Brett Jardine said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">After completing the course and a comprehensive post-conference assignment, agents will enter the prestigious Cruise Masters\u2019 ranks.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The annual Masters event is open to all agents currently holding CLIA accreditation and employed by a CLIA member travel agent.<i>&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CLIA Masters_2013\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-436216\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CLIA-Masters_2013.jpg\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CLIA-Masters_2013.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><p><i><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Australian and New Zealand agents aboard Carnival Spirit during CLIA Australasia\u2019s 2013 Masters Conference.<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of more than 60 Australian and New Zealand travel agents have spent eight nights cruising the South Pacific as part of CLIA Australasia\u2019s Masters Conference. US-based sales guru and motivator Scott Koepf was at the helm of his 15th&nbsp;Masters, an annual CLIA Australasia event which combines intensive training sessions with a first-hand cruise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}