FORT LAUDERDALE — Atlas Ocean Voyages is looking forward to calmer seas ahead, ordering new ships and announcing the appointment of six new sales directors.

Eric Bacon will serve as Regional Sales Director for Canada, Cathy Kusuma has been named Regional Sales Director, Eastern U.S.; Rolf Logan, Regional Sales Director for Central U.S.; and Anthony Cooper, Regional Sales Director for Western U.S.

Furthermore, Alyssa Logan has assumed the role of Director of Charter and Incentive Sales; Lisette Martinez Rusian as Director of Sales and Marketing Operations; and Michelle Rodriguez-Suarez as Virtual Sales Manager.

The new sales executives will report to Atlas Ocean Voyages’ Vice President of Sales and Trade Partnerships Brandon Townsley and all are dedicated to supporting the travel selling community and fostering unshakable relationships with the company’s valued travel advisors.

“We are very happy to welcome the new sales executives to the Atlas Ocean Voyages sales team,” says Townsley. “They bring to Atlas their immense expertise as well as their understanding of the market and the needs of hardworking travel advisors. Cathy, Rolf, Anthony, Eric, Alyssa, Lisette and Michelle will continue to build strong and mutually rewarding relationships between Atlas and luxury travel advisors throughout the U.S. and Canada. They will also promote Atlas’ distinctive luxe-adventure expeditions and share how travel advisors can earn a $750 or $500 gift card immediately for each deposited booking through the GET PAID NOW incentive program.”

Atlas Ocean Voyages says it remains committed to supporting travel advisors with the Get Paid Now program. Advisors immediately receive a $750 or $500 gift card for each deposited booking in a suite or stateroom, respectively, plus earn 15% commission when their clients sail. For more information about the program visit www.AtlasOceanVoyages.com/partneroffers.

Atlas Ocean Voyages’ President Alberto Aliberti said about the progress of the brand: “Ten years in planning, Atlas Ocean Voyages is the realized vision of Mystic Invest [Atlas Ocean Voyages’ parent company] Chairman and Portuguese Entrepreneur Mário Ferreira. When we opened Atlas in late 2018 in the U.S., it was three of us table-hopping in cafés and conference rooms. We have now grown into a proud team of nearly 40 and are the only cruise company in 2020 to order new ships – not one, but four – to join World Navigator before 2023.

“This year has been unprecedented, to say the least, and it’s important to thank our valued travel advisor partners and stakeholders, who believed in this new cruising concept and supported us every step of the way to help us reach this point. We look forward to bringing luxe-adventure journeys to the world and inaugurate the safe, clean and green World Navigator in July 2021.”

The newly appointed sales executives are all veteran industry executives, totalling more than 160 years of collective experience with cruise and travel companies such as American Express Travel, Azamara, Celebrity Cruises, Cruise Planners, Delta Airline Vacations, Delta Queen Steamboat Co., Holland America Line, Hurtigruten, Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises, PPI Group, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, Royal Caribbean International, Seabourn Cruise Line, and Travel Impressions.

For more information visit AtlasOceanVoyages.com.