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thumbLandry & Kling, Inc. is an American company specializing in group cruise travel based in Miami, Florida. 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 staff of ten, with additional project staff as needed. In 2014, the company booked $59 million in gross sales, representing 480,000 cruise ship passenger nights. == History == Landry & Kling Inc. was founded in New York City in 1982 by former cruise line executives Joyce Landry and Jo Kling, who shared a vision to become the first resource for business meetings on ships. 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 National Leisure Group. 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 first web portal dedicated to the corporate & incentive cruise market, re-engineering the group quote process online with electronic search tools. Co-founders Joyce Landry & Jo Kling are cruise industry spokespeople who have been regularly interviewed and quoted for over three decades in domestic and international media including The New York Times, Money, TIME,The Economist, Travel + Leisure, Vogue, and many trade publications in the meetings industry. They have appeared twice on NBC’s The Today Show. As speakers, seminar leaders, columnists and cruise line advisory board members, they influenced the growth of the corporate cruise market, which resulted in their induction into the cruise industry’s Hall of Fame in 2009.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Landry & Kling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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