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Landry & Kling is an American company founded in 1982 that specializes in group cruise travel and chartering entire cruise ships. They promote the use of cruise ships for corporate meetings, travel incentives, and large events. Landry & Kling employs 10 full-time staff and had $59 million in gross sales in 2014 representing 480,000 passenger nights. They provide services including site selection, program planning, and onboard execution for cruise charters.
![Landry & Kling
Landry & Kling, Inc. is an American company special-
izing in group cruise travel based in Miami, Florida.[1]
They promote and sell the concept of using cruise ships
for corporate meetings, travel incentives and large scale
events, often chartering entire ships for this purpose.
Landry & Kling employs a full time sta鍖 of ten, with ad-
ditional project sta鍖 as needed. In 2014, the company
booked $59 million in gross sales, representing 480,000
cruise ship passenger nights.
1 History
Joyce Landry and Jo Kling, Co-founders of Landry Kling Inc.
Landry & Kling Inc. was founded in New York City in
1982 by former cruise line executives Joyce Landry and
Jo Kling,[2]
who shared a vision to become the 鍖rst re-
source for business meetings on ships.[3]
The company
relocated to Miami, Florida in 1988.
The partners sold Landry & Kling Inc. to publicly traded
Travel Services International in 1998, later rebranded to
MyTravel Group. The owners stayed on and in 2005
they re-purchased the company from then-owners Na-
tional Leisure Group.[4]
Landry & Kling Inc., dba Landry & Kling Events at Sea,
is majority-owned, controlled, operated, and managed
by women, qualifying the company as a minority-owned
business.
In 2009, Landry & Kling introduced Seasite.com, the 鍖rst
web portal dedicated to the corporate & incentive cruise
market, re-engineering the group quote process online
with electronic search tools.[5]
Co-founders Joyce Landry & Jo Kling are cruise industry
spokespeople who have been regularly interviewed and
quoted for over three decades in domestic and interna-
tional media including The New York Times, Money,
TIME,The Economist, Travel + Leisure, Vogue, and
many trade publications in the meetings industry.[6]
They
have appeared twice on NBCs The Today Show. As
speakers, seminar leaders, columnists and cruise line ad-
visory board members, they in鍖uenced the growth of the
corporate cruise market, which resulted in their induction
into the cruise industrys Hall of Fame in 2009.[6]
2 Services
Fireworks during sail-away on a ship chartered for a corporate
incentive group.
Landry & Kling provides site selection for meetings at
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sea, incentive cruise groups and full ship charters[7]
as
well as complete program planning services and onboard
execution. Clients include blue-chip companies such as
A鍖ac, Harley-Davidson, Land O'Lakes, and MetLife,[8]
privately held organizations and theme cruise organiz-
ers, as well as HelmsBriscoe, the global meetings pro-
curement company, for whom they provide all cruise re-
lated services under the HB Cruises private label brand.
Landry & Klings long-term specialization in the cruise
industry has given them a knowledge base and connec-
tions that allow them to customize cruise solutions for
their clients.[1]
3 Incentive cruises
At the time the company was founded, cruise lines did
not have cruise incentive departments, and corporations
did not typically think of cruises as travel incentive
rewards.[5]
TravelMarket says the 鍖rm is " practically syn-
onymous with cruise incentives.[5]
4 Cruise Ship Charters
One of the 鍖ve ships chartered as 鍖oating hotels in Jacksonville,
Florida during the 2005 Super Bowl.
Landry & Kling originated the concept of using cruise
ships as 鍖oating hotels[9]
chartered to provide supple-
mental housing dockside during city wide events, such as
the 2005 Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida.[10]
They also facilitated other dockside charter projects for
the American Heart Association 1996 (New Orleans),
Relief housing after Hurricane Katrina 2005 (Mobile,
AL), Cricket World Cup 2007 (West Indies); Fifth Sum-
mit of the Americas 2009 (Trinidad),[9]
and the 2016
Summer Olympics in Rio.[11]
Landry & Kling is one of the countrys leading cruise
ship charter consultants,[12]
not only for corporate use,
but also for leisure themed charters, such as Rock Leg-
ends Cruise[13]
and Its the Ship, Asias largest music
Two ships were chartered for supplemental housing during the
Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, 2009
festival at sea. Landry & Kling is the only company rec-
ommended as cruise charter specialists in Berlitz Cruising
& Cruise Ships annually, from 2008 to 2015.[14]
Landry & Kling claims to have chartered more cruise
ships than any other entity in the world.[15]
5 Recognition
1987: Landry & Kling introduced dockside cruise ship
charters for the DECworld 87 tradeshow in Boston to
serve as 鍖oating hotels for more than 25,000 visitors.[16]
2004: Joyce Landry authored a chapter in The Complete
21st Century Travel & Hospitality Marketing Handbook,
Staying ahead of the curve, to avoid getting run over.[17]
2005: Corporate Meetings & Incentive Magazine cited
the 1982 founding of Landry & Kling as one of the Top
25 Meeting Industry Milestones in their special 25th An-
niversary Issue[18]
2006 Landry and Kling were named among the 10
Women Leaders who are making a di鍖erence in the
meetings industry by Incentive Magazine.[3]
2006: Landry & Kling achieved WBENC Certi鍖cation
(Womens Business Enterprise National Council), and
was named #156 among the top 500 Women-owned busi-](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/b462a6e7-cecd-4e99-b8ef-e0584ad80725-151112193958-lva1-app6892/85/Landry-Kling-Wikepedia-Page-2-320.jpg)
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nesses in the U.S. by DiversityBusiness.com in 2007.[19]
2009: Josephine Kling and Joyce Landry, founders of
Landry & Kling, Inc., were inducted into the CLIA
(Cruise Lines International Association) Hall of Fame
2009, hailed as visionaries who led the way in seagoing
corporate meetings and incentives.[6]
2009: Landry & Kling named among Top 50 Women-
Led Businesses in Florida, ranking #13 in the state.[20]
2011: Royal Caribbean International recognized Landry
& Kling as its Partner of the Year for Corporate & Incen-
tive groups.[21]
2013: Landry & Kling was awarded Womens Business
Enterprise Star award by WBENC.[22]
6 References
[1] Brandt, George. Three Keys to a Winning Attitude for a
Service Business. Forbes. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
[2] Albright, John Brannon (Nov 21, 1982). Practical Trav-
eler: Cruise Consultants. The New York Times. Re-
trieved 13 February 2015.
[3] Smith, A.E. (May 1, 2006). Leading the Field. Incen-
tive (May 2006).
[4] Landry & Kling Independent Again. Incentive. June 2,
2005.
[5] Chipkin, Harvey (March 1, 2012). Cruise Incentives
Stay Strong in Downturns. Travel Market Report. Re-
trieved 13 February 2015.
[6] CLIA Announces 2009 Hall of Fame Inductees. CLIA.
March 12, 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
[7] Charter Cruises: Everything You Need to Know.
cruisecritic.com. Cruise Critic. Retrieved 17 February
2015.
[8] Kulp, Kayleigh (Nov 28, 2011). Businesses cruise more
to meetings - literally. CNN. Retrieved 13 February
2015.
[9] Garley, Elinor (June 8, 2010). The Port in a Storm.
eTurbo News. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
[10] Talalay, Sarah (Feb 2, 2005). City Scores With Floating
Resorts. SunSentinel. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
[11] Norwegian Getaway may be going to Rio, but thats
where it ends. SeaTrade Communications. Jan 23, 2015.
Retrieved 13 February 2015.
[12] Motter, Paul (Apr 22, 2011). Cruises: Not Just for Va-
cation. FOX News. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
[13] Estrin, Joshua (April 8, 2013). Taking Business to the
HIgh Seas. Hu鍖ngton Post. Retrieved 13 February
2015.
[14] Ward, Douglas (Nov 1, 2014). Berlitz Cruising & Cruise
Ships 2015 (23 ed.). Berlitz Travel. p. 57. ISBN
1780047541.
[15] Ships Chartered by Landry & Kling. ShipCharters.com.
Retrieved 13 February 2015.
[16] Sims, Calvin (Sep 8, 1987). Digital Enlists the QE2 for
Lavish Trade Show. The New York Times. Retrieved 13
February 2015.
[17] Vladimir, Andy; Dickinson, Bob (June 18, 2004). Com-
plete 21st Century Travel Marketing Handbook. Prentice
Hall. p. 603. ISBN 0131133144.
[18] Meeting-Industry Milestones. Corporate Meetings & In-
centives (March 2005). March 1, 2005.
[19] Awards & Recognitions (May 2007). Womens Busi-
ness Development Center. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
[20] Floridas Woman-Led Businesses, 2009 (PDF). FIU
(Florida International University) Center for Leadership
(2009): 6. June 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
[21] Royal Caribbean Names 2011 Travel Partners of the
Year. TravelPulse. Jan 19, 2012. Retrieved 18 February
2015.
[22] Womens Business Enterprise Stars - Previous Recipi-
ents. wbenc.org. WBENC. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
7 External links
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Landry & Kling-Wikepedia Page
- 1. Landry & Kling Landry & Kling, Inc. is an American company special- izing in group cruise travel based in Miami, Florida.[1] They promote and sell the concept of using cruise ships for corporate meetings, travel incentives and large scale events, often chartering entire ships for this purpose. Landry & Kling employs a full time sta鍖 of ten, with ad- ditional project sta鍖 as needed. In 2014, the company booked $59 million in gross sales, representing 480,000 cruise ship passenger nights. 1 History Joyce Landry and Jo Kling, Co-founders of Landry Kling Inc. Landry & Kling Inc. was founded in New York City in 1982 by former cruise line executives Joyce Landry and Jo Kling,[2] who shared a vision to become the 鍖rst re- source for business meetings on ships.[3] The company relocated to Miami, Florida in 1988. The partners sold Landry & Kling Inc. to publicly traded Travel Services International in 1998, later rebranded to MyTravel Group. The owners stayed on and in 2005 they re-purchased the company from then-owners Na- tional Leisure Group.[4] Landry & Kling Inc., dba Landry & Kling Events at Sea, is majority-owned, controlled, operated, and managed by women, qualifying the company as a minority-owned business. In 2009, Landry & Kling introduced Seasite.com, the 鍖rst web portal dedicated to the corporate & incentive cruise market, re-engineering the group quote process online with electronic search tools.[5] Co-founders Joyce Landry & Jo Kling are cruise industry spokespeople who have been regularly interviewed and quoted for over three decades in domestic and interna- tional media including The New York Times, Money, TIME,The Economist, Travel + Leisure, Vogue, and many trade publications in the meetings industry.[6] They have appeared twice on NBCs The Today Show. As speakers, seminar leaders, columnists and cruise line ad- visory board members, they in鍖uenced the growth of the corporate cruise market, which resulted in their induction into the cruise industrys Hall of Fame in 2009.[6] 2 Services Fireworks during sail-away on a ship chartered for a corporate incentive group. Landry & Kling provides site selection for meetings at 1
- 2. 2 5 RECOGNITION sea, incentive cruise groups and full ship charters[7] as well as complete program planning services and onboard execution. Clients include blue-chip companies such as A鍖ac, Harley-Davidson, Land O'Lakes, and MetLife,[8] privately held organizations and theme cruise organiz- ers, as well as HelmsBriscoe, the global meetings pro- curement company, for whom they provide all cruise re- lated services under the HB Cruises private label brand. Landry & Klings long-term specialization in the cruise industry has given them a knowledge base and connec- tions that allow them to customize cruise solutions for their clients.[1] 3 Incentive cruises At the time the company was founded, cruise lines did not have cruise incentive departments, and corporations did not typically think of cruises as travel incentive rewards.[5] TravelMarket says the 鍖rm is " practically syn- onymous with cruise incentives.[5] 4 Cruise Ship Charters One of the 鍖ve ships chartered as 鍖oating hotels in Jacksonville, Florida during the 2005 Super Bowl. Landry & Kling originated the concept of using cruise ships as 鍖oating hotels[9] chartered to provide supple- mental housing dockside during city wide events, such as the 2005 Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida.[10] They also facilitated other dockside charter projects for the American Heart Association 1996 (New Orleans), Relief housing after Hurricane Katrina 2005 (Mobile, AL), Cricket World Cup 2007 (West Indies); Fifth Sum- mit of the Americas 2009 (Trinidad),[9] and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.[11] Landry & Kling is one of the countrys leading cruise ship charter consultants,[12] not only for corporate use, but also for leisure themed charters, such as Rock Leg- ends Cruise[13] and Its the Ship, Asias largest music Two ships were chartered for supplemental housing during the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, 2009 festival at sea. Landry & Kling is the only company rec- ommended as cruise charter specialists in Berlitz Cruising & Cruise Ships annually, from 2008 to 2015.[14] Landry & Kling claims to have chartered more cruise ships than any other entity in the world.[15] 5 Recognition 1987: Landry & Kling introduced dockside cruise ship charters for the DECworld 87 tradeshow in Boston to serve as 鍖oating hotels for more than 25,000 visitors.[16] 2004: Joyce Landry authored a chapter in The Complete 21st Century Travel & Hospitality Marketing Handbook, Staying ahead of the curve, to avoid getting run over.[17] 2005: Corporate Meetings & Incentive Magazine cited the 1982 founding of Landry & Kling as one of the Top 25 Meeting Industry Milestones in their special 25th An- niversary Issue[18] 2006 Landry and Kling were named among the 10 Women Leaders who are making a di鍖erence in the meetings industry by Incentive Magazine.[3] 2006: Landry & Kling achieved WBENC Certi鍖cation (Womens Business Enterprise National Council), and was named #156 among the top 500 Women-owned busi-
- 3. 3 nesses in the U.S. by DiversityBusiness.com in 2007.[19] 2009: Josephine Kling and Joyce Landry, founders of Landry & Kling, Inc., were inducted into the CLIA (Cruise Lines International Association) Hall of Fame 2009, hailed as visionaries who led the way in seagoing corporate meetings and incentives.[6] 2009: Landry & Kling named among Top 50 Women- Led Businesses in Florida, ranking #13 in the state.[20] 2011: Royal Caribbean International recognized Landry & Kling as its Partner of the Year for Corporate & Incen- tive groups.[21] 2013: Landry & Kling was awarded Womens Business Enterprise Star award by WBENC.[22] 6 References [1] Brandt, George. Three Keys to a Winning Attitude for a Service Business. Forbes. Retrieved 13 February 2015. [2] Albright, John Brannon (Nov 21, 1982). Practical Trav- eler: Cruise Consultants. The New York Times. Re- trieved 13 February 2015. [3] Smith, A.E. (May 1, 2006). Leading the Field. Incen- tive (May 2006). [4] Landry & Kling Independent Again. Incentive. June 2, 2005. [5] Chipkin, Harvey (March 1, 2012). Cruise Incentives Stay Strong in Downturns. Travel Market Report. Re- trieved 13 February 2015. [6] CLIA Announces 2009 Hall of Fame Inductees. CLIA. March 12, 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2015. [7] Charter Cruises: Everything You Need to Know. cruisecritic.com. Cruise Critic. Retrieved 17 February 2015. [8] Kulp, Kayleigh (Nov 28, 2011). Businesses cruise more to meetings - literally. CNN. Retrieved 13 February 2015. [9] Garley, Elinor (June 8, 2010). The Port in a Storm. eTurbo News. Retrieved 13 February 2015. [10] Talalay, Sarah (Feb 2, 2005). City Scores With Floating Resorts. SunSentinel. Retrieved 13 February 2015. [11] Norwegian Getaway may be going to Rio, but thats where it ends. SeaTrade Communications. Jan 23, 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015. [12] Motter, Paul (Apr 22, 2011). Cruises: Not Just for Va- cation. FOX News. Retrieved 13 February 2015. [13] Estrin, Joshua (April 8, 2013). Taking Business to the HIgh Seas. Hu鍖ngton Post. Retrieved 13 February 2015. [14] Ward, Douglas (Nov 1, 2014). Berlitz Cruising & Cruise Ships 2015 (23 ed.). Berlitz Travel. p. 57. ISBN 1780047541. [15] Ships Chartered by Landry & Kling. ShipCharters.com. Retrieved 13 February 2015. [16] Sims, Calvin (Sep 8, 1987). Digital Enlists the QE2 for Lavish Trade Show. The New York Times. Retrieved 13 February 2015. [17] Vladimir, Andy; Dickinson, Bob (June 18, 2004). Com- plete 21st Century Travel Marketing Handbook. Prentice Hall. p. 603. ISBN 0131133144. [18] Meeting-Industry Milestones. Corporate Meetings & In- centives (March 2005). March 1, 2005. [19] Awards & Recognitions (May 2007). Womens Busi- ness Development Center. Retrieved 13 February 2015. [20] Floridas Woman-Led Businesses, 2009 (PDF). FIU (Florida International University) Center for Leadership (2009): 6. June 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2015. [21] Royal Caribbean Names 2011 Travel Partners of the Year. TravelPulse. Jan 19, 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2015. [22] Womens Business Enterprise Stars - Previous Recipi- ents. wbenc.org. WBENC. Retrieved 13 February 2015. 7 External links Landry & Kling Website.
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