OneSource for Travel Agents: What It Is and How to Use It
If you sell cruises, OneSource is one of the trade platforms worth learning early. It is the travel advisor platform used by several cruise brands, including Princess Cruises, Cunard, P&O Cruises, Holland America Line and Seabourn. One place gives you booking tools, marketing materials, training and current offers for these brands.
What Is OneSource?
OneSource is a cruise line trade website for travel advisors. Instead of a separate agent portal for every brand, you find the sales tools and resources for these cruise lines in a single platform. Seabourn moved its trade website to the OneSource Travel Advisor Center in 2023, and Holland America Line has also joined the platform.
What You Can Do in OneSource
Use booking tools such as POLAR Online, FlightEase and Plain Sailing
Download destination guides and product planners
Use marketing toolkits and personalize marketing pieces with your own details
Find upcoming training for each brand
See the latest offers to share with your clients
Why It Matters for a Travel Advisor
Princess, Holland America Line, Cunard and Seabourn cover a wide range of clients, from first-time cruisers to luxury travelers. Knowing where the tools, offers and training live saves time on every quote and helps you present each brand with confidence.
Vendors provide their own product and platform training, so OneSource is also where you learn each brand directly from the cruise line. The better you know the product, the easier it is to match the right ship and itinerary to the right client.
How to Get Started
Register on OneSource as a travel advisor under your host agency, not as a separate agency.
Complete and verify your profile, and set your default brand under My Account.
Start with the training for the brand you plan to sell first.
Personalize one marketing piece and share it with your clients or on social media.
BNT agents: if you are not sure which agency details to use when you register, check the BNT Quick Guide or email BNT support.
Other Supplier Tools Worth Learning
Bedsonline for travel agents: hotels, transfers, activities and more
Expedia TAAP: hotel and package rates for travel advisors
Viator for travel agents: tours and activities worldwide
Vacation Express: air-inclusive vacation packages
Not a travel advisor yet? See how the free host travel agency program works, or browse all travel agent guides.
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