Ken Lockley, former MD of cheapestflights.co.uk, has marked his return to the industry with a new travel website, CustomCruises.co.uk, for selling cruises.
Published: 05 Oct 2009
Ken Lockley, former MD of cheapestflights.co.uk, has marked his return to the industry with a new travel website, CustomCruises.co.uk, for selling cruises.
CustomCruises.co.uk is a live, fully dynamic cruise booking website with real-time prices and availability.
Ken Lockley, who has recently returned to the industry with R-Travel in Perth, Scotland, said, “We all know that the biggest growth market in travel is cruise, and the biggest growth within that market is the new-to-cruise customer – this product is purpose built to capitalise on that sector, thereby attracting a much wider audience.”
He added that for the first time, the new offering will appeal to customers who wouldn’t normally consider cruise.
The site will seamlessly allow users to be fully flexible on adding flights, hotels and transfers.
“CustomCruises is such a unique piece of dynamic packaging software, it will provide never before seen, live cruise availability and prices matched with live charter and scheduled flight prices, from low cost airlines through to flag carriers,” said Lockley.
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