Stip winner ‘Over the Top’ award

Recently Costa Cruises held the 22nd edition of the Champion of the Seas. For the fifth time in a row the Over the Top award went to Stip Reizen. They scored the best sales results. Fred Verlinden, the CEO of Stip Reizen, announced last year, after winning the fourth award in a row, that if he should win the award again, he would accept the fifth award in a green (Stip) frog costume, and he kept his word.

Also Kras, Cruisewinkel.nl, Cruise Travel and Zeetours won some prices. Kras received the award for Best Group Sales. The award for Best Individual Sales was awarded to Cruisewinkel.nl. Cruise Travel won the award for Best Tour Operator Sales and Zeetours realized the biggest growth and received therefore the Biggest Growth award.

For the 22nd edition of Champions of the Seas, 1,500 top partners from all around the world were invited aboard the Costa Diadema, where they were introduced to the latest flagship. In addition, various activities are organized, such as ‘ViceVersa’, were partners could switch place with the crew to experience life on board. There were also business presentations and marketing meetings with marketing teams on the program. “Protagonisti del Mar is our most important event to celebrate the results of our partners, while sharing our growth strategy.” says Norbert Stiekema, Costa Cruises Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing. “This year we have a lot of news to present, including our investments that will consolidate our leadership of our Costa brand in Europe, but also the new brochure 2016/17, the new neoCollection brochure and the new organization of the sales and marketing teams.”