CRUISE RETAIL ACADEMY

CRUISE RETAIL
ACADEMY

The Professional Network for Cruise Retailers

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The Cruise Retail Academy is available as a completely free of charge network for all onboard cruise retail professionals to help you enhance your cruise retail career. Not only training, we will have a wide range of useful resources such as training, newsletters, networking, blogs and forums, we will help you to gain the best knowledge, skills and support from across our amazing cruise retail community!

Have a look at some of the main features that are included with your free membership.

Brand

Academy

Launching soon!

The Cruise Retail BRAND ACADEMY will launch soon. It has been designed to offer new and re-embarking onboard cruise retail professionals a strong start to their career in our sector. This online platform will give you access to attending a variety of informative, educational and inspiring sessions by leading cruise retail brands and suppliers. Across our ongoing programme, we will invite you to listen to a wide range of subjects with the courses being tailored by ourselves to ensure they are relevant and added value to you.

Brand training will be provided to you directly from some of the finest brands from the cruise retail sector across nearly all product categories. At the core of our brand training offer will be the chance for you to join the sessions that are of interest to you so you can grow your knowledge from the people who know it best. There will also be the chance in selected sessions and courses to become brand accredited and receive an official certification of your training.

What's On

Monthly Newsletter

Our monthly newsletter will be available exclusively for our Cruise Retail Academy members each month. With all the latest news, updates, interviews, reviews and inside information, we will bring loads of really interesting and insightful content and with all the best bits from our blog. Read all about successes across the sector, new innovations, achievements and much more. With lots of guest content, we will connect you together in a really unique and interesting way!

Cruise

Retail Blog

Our cruise retail blog will be updated each week with all the latest news, stories, career journeys, opinion, product launches, interesting insights and features. We will take a look at a range of topics that we think you will find valuable to help you in your cruise retail journey!

OUR BLOG

Cruise Retail Vacancies

As a member of the Cruise Retail Academy, you will get a dedicated page to see all of our latest job vacancies across the cruise retail sector, so you can take advantage of the best opportunities to grow your career across the many operators and cruise lines. We will update you when new roles are added and let you apply for the vacancies that match your skills and ambitions.

Search Job Vacancies

Novelty Launches

Launching soon!

We will work with our brand partners to provide novelty launch sessions. These will be quick presentations so you can learn about the new product launches quickly and concisely at the moment that the new lines launch into the market. Learn the features and benefits, the innovations, the ideas behind the new products directly from the brands themselves to help you to sell them effectively in your shops.

What's On

Launching soon!

The BRAND ACADEMY is designed to appeal across all the different product categories. But of course, we will do our best to cover the specifics of specific product categories also. Providing sessions, workshops and webinars for specific product categories, we will help you to build your specialist skills in the product area that you have passion for. From liquor to watches, from jewellery to perfume, from fashion to events, we will try and cover all the different topics across all the different areas of cruise retail to help you along your chosen path.

Career

Support

We will host various sessions to help you start your career in cruise retail in the best way possible. Learning technical skills needed to progress such as finance, excel, merchandising, marketing, presenting, dealing with conflict, creating a CV. A number of different workshops will be provided to allow you to learn basic skills from experienced professionals. Not only this, we can support you with your career progression and connect you with the best roles and opportunities in the cruise retail sector.

What's On

Share Your Success

We offer our Cruise Retail Academy members the exclusive access to the #Shoppies Forum so you can share your own success or your team's success onto here, and we will share these across social media to reach the widest audience possible! You can comment on other's successes as well as posting your own topics, questions or opinions. We want you to connect out to many colleagues you have across the industry.

FORUM

Academy

Networking

As a member of the Cruise Retail Academy, we offer you the exclusive chance to connect up with other members, with our 1-2-1 members chat service which you can use to connect up to others across the industry. We also will be here to answer your questions, and to provide as much support as we can to help you in your job role.

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STARS OF THE SEA

The more you learn, the more points you earn!

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What's on at the Academy...

SERVICE & SELLING SKILLS in Cruise Retail - Webinar
Fri, 15 Nov
Webinar
15 Nov 2024, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Webinar
15 Nov 2024, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Webinar
Come and learn the key techniques needed for successful service and selling in the cruise retail industry. We talk you through some of the top tips to begin your sales journey onboard cruise ships.
Reserve Your Place

CREATING CRUISE PLANS THAT DRIVE SALES
Fri, 22 Nov
Webinar
22 Nov 2024, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Webinar
22 Nov 2024, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Webinar
Learn all about one of the key principles of cruise retailing in a workshop dedicated to how cruise plans work and why they are so important. You will learn about the top 10 tips on what to include, why they change the potential to achieve strong sales, and how to build one from scratch.
Reserve Your Place

WELCOME ONBOARD! Cruise Retail Academy Introduction Webinar
Fri, 29 Nov
Webinar
29 Nov 2024, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Webinar
29 Nov 2024, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Webinar
If you have just signed up for the Cruise Retail Academy, please come and join this welcome session to learn what the network is all about!
Reserve Your Place

CV WORKSHOP
Fri, 06 Dec
Webinar Workshop
06 Dec 2024, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Webinar Workshop
06 Dec 2024, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Webinar Workshop
Come along to our CV skills workshop where we will talk you through how to make the perfect CV to make an impact, what to include, how to format it, what to miss out on.
Reserve Your Place

PRESENTATION SKILLLS Workshop
Fri, 10 Jan
Webinar
10 Jan 2025, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Webinar
10 Jan 2025, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT
Webinar
Come and join in a webinar where we will look at the skills needed for successful presentations, either in-person or online. Let us go through some of the top ways you can improve your confidence and communication to ensure that when you are presenting in front of an audience, you are ready!
Reserve Your Place

Brand Academy - Liquor Specialist Training
Date and time is TBD
Online Workshop
Date and time is TBD
Online Workshop
Date and time is TBD
Online Workshop
Watch this space as we partner with top liquor brands to bring you all their best training directly to you.
Coming Soon!

Brand Academy - Fine Watches Training
Date and time is TBD
Webinar
Date and time is TBD
Webinar
Date and time is TBD
Webinar
Watch this space for seminars about fine watches, brand history, novelties and information
Coming Soon!

Brand Academy - Jewellery Training
Date and time is TBD
Webinar
Date and time is TBD
Webinar
Date and time is TBD
Webinar
Brand Jewellery Training Sessions will be coming soon!
Coming Soon!

Brand Academy - Beauty Brand Training
Date and time is TBD
Webinar
Date and time is TBD
Webinar
Date and time is TBD
Webinar
Beauty Brand training will be provided to you directly from some of the finest brands from the cruise retail sector across the perfumes and cosmetics sector.
Coming Soon!