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Agency Gets Top Award

Nov 08, 2008

From left to right: Ellen Bettridge, American Express Retail Travel Network; Kathy Falkensammer and Leo Falkensammer, Plaza Travel; and Lynne Bigger, American Express Consumer Travel Network.
From left to right: Ellen Bettridge, American Express Retail Travel Network; Kathy Falkensammer and Leo Falkensammer, Plaza Travel; and Lynne Bigger, American Express Consumer Travel Network.

During last month’s American Express Representative Network National Conference held in Seattle, American Express Travel named Prestige Travel and Cruises the Representative Travel Agency of the Year.

This honor is awarded to the agency that best exemplifies industry and customer advocacy, continues business development and innovation and whose contributions have advanced the industry-wide status of the American Express Representative Network.

Prestige Travel and Cruises, headquartered in Las Vegas, is the largest travel agency in Nevada, with 15 offices and over 200 travel professionals across the state.

 

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