Owning a SeaMaster Cruises franchise is a truly unique business offering the opportunity for financial success and a lifestyle that has the world (literally) at your feet. Backed by the travel industry-leading Carlson Companies, SeaMaster Cruises has the power and experience at hand to help you build and manage your cruise business. With SeaMaster Cruises, we understand that your success is our success, and in order for you to succeed, we need to provide you with the best tools and guidance possible. Support, education, technology, and agent marketing are the foundation behind a successful home-based franchise.

Today’s cruise ships are the best venue for Conventions. Today's ships are floating conference centers equipped with everything you need to host an unforgettable event.

Whether your meeting is for 50 or 3,000, spacious, well-designed facilities provide the perfect mix of business and pleasure. Whether you require theatre-style seating for lectures, elaborate presentations, awards ceremonies, classrooms, a boardroom setting, or all of the above, today's cruise ships have just what you're looking for. Some ships even offer multi-lingual translation via wireless transmitter and headsets and interactive, audience keypads at no extra charge.

Your SeaMaster Cruises “Personal” Cruise Expert provides a professional, step-by-step approach to coordinating all aspects of your event. It begins with a thorough consultation to understand the needs of your group and the overall budget. We then conduct extensive research to provide a recommendation that best suits your needs.

Carlson Travel Franchise Group has developed an expertise in travel franchising. This expertise, coupled with years of franchise experience, makes our business model highly successful.

Buying a franchise is not like starting an independent business by yourself. With a franchise, you are buying a support system and the "licensed" rights to use proven systems to operate a business. These systems have been developed by individuals who have tackled and solved the problems typically encountered by people in the industry you are thinking of entering.

Through the purchase of a franchise, you are buying the security of a track record, a strong brand awareness, and operating, reporting and management systems while gaining a head start in the industry and a foothold from which to begin your climb.
Franchising is growing at nearly 6% per year. Currently, there are over 1.5 million franchised outlets, accounting for approximately one-third of all US retail sales.1 Statistics show that 80% of franchise owners succeed in their businesses. So even though it doesn’t guarantee success, statistics reveal that fewer than 20% of new franchise businesses fail. Compare that to the 60%-80% failure rate of new businesses overall each year in the U.S. and franchising is the obvious choice.

In addition, data from the U.S. Department of Commerce illustrate the business success rates over a ten-year period of Individual New Start-up Enterprises versus Franchise Businesses.