With Jamaica opening borders this month, Sandals Resorts is gearing up for a phased opening of all its resorts across the country, with Montego Bay opening today and Sandals Royal Caribbean following suit on July 2, Sandals Negril on August 7, Sandals Ochi on September 3, Sandals South Coast on October 1 and Sandals Royal Plantation on October 8
Sandals Resorts International has extended its travel agent programmes, including Chairman?s Royal Club membership and Sandals Specialist benefits up until 2021, to support the trade.
Agents who currently hold the Chairman Royal Club membership or Sandals Specialist benefits can utilise them till 2021, without having to requalify.
The company?s popular Sell & Go rewards programme, where agents earn their own free nights stay at Sandals and Beaches Resorts, has also been extended to give agents a longer duration to access the benefits, as they are currently not able to be processed.
Agents with unused nights from 2018 can use until December 31 this year, those earned in 2019 can be used until December 31, 2021 and any nights earned in 2020, will be valid until December 31, 2022.
Karl Thompson, managing director of Unique Caribbean Holidays UK Ltd. (UCHL), Sandals and Beaches Resort?s UK tour operator, says: ?Travel agents are some of the unsung heroes of this pandemic, many of them having spent hours taking care of clients; booking and then helping them change the dates. We had developed our travel agent programmes to support the trade and offer them exclusive benefits, and we want to continue supporting them as much as we can, both during and after the pandemic. We appreciate our travel agent partners and are thankful for everything that they have done to retain bookings, and assist clients during this difficult and unprecedented time.?
Other Travel Agent Programmes at Sandals Resorts
When a travel agent becomes a Sandals Specialist (SS), they join an elite group of travel advisors recognised as experts in the Caribbean's Luxury Included resorts. Agents who make 1-5 bookings per year get Luxury Specialist status, while those accomplishing between 6-11 bookings, qualifies for a Club Specialist status and those who achieve more than 12 bookings per year are Butler Specialists, who get additional benefits, including Sell & Go holiday nights, booked up to 90 days in advance, with a Butler suite requested and a 25% in-resort discount card.
The Chairman's Royal Club (CRC) is a select group of top booking individual travel agents that have shown exceptional loyalty to the Sandals and Beaches Resorts brands. Membership to this group is by invitation only, and allows participants to reap some extra rewards and opportunities. Agents must sell more than 100 rooms per year to qualify for this membership. Rewards for CRC agents include, the ability to book their own Sell & Go holidays up to 365 days in advance, Butler suites confirmed for Sell & Go trips on request, and an extra room for immediate family, an invitation to the STAR Awards, a credit of USD$100 for Island routes tours, among others.
To learn more about Sandals and Beaches Resorts? Travel Agents Programmes, visit https://sellingsandals.co.uk
