page_title: Landry & Kling
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Landry & Kling / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Joyce Landry and Jo Kling, Co-founders of Landry Kling Inc.
context_page_description: Landry & Kling Global Cruise Services specializes in worldwide sourcing for cruise ships and accommodation vessels for a variety of purposes including workforce housing, disaster relief efforts, offshore construction projects and military training support; their home office is located in Miami, Florida. They use cruise ships for corporate meetings, travel incentives and global events, often chartering entire ships for this purpose.
context_section_description: Landry & Kling Inc. was founded in New York City in 1982 by former cruise line executives Joyce Landry and Jo Kling,  who shared a vision to become the first resource for business meetings on ships. The company relocated to Miami, Florida in 1988.
  The partners sold Landry & Kling Inc. to publicly traded Travel Services International in 1998, later rebranded to MyTravel Group. The owners stayed on and in 2005 they re-purchased the company from then-owners National Leisure Group.
  Landry & Kling Inc., dba Landry & Kling Global Cruise Events, is majority-owned, controlled, operated, and managed by women, qualifying the company as a minority-owned business.
  In 2009, Landry & Kling introduced Seasite.com, the first web portal dedicated to the corporate & incentive cruise market, re-engineering the group quote process online with electronic search tools.
  Co-founders Joyce Landry & Jo Kling are cruise industry spokespeople who have been regularly interviewed and quoted for over three decades in domestic and international media including The New York Times, Money, TIME, The Economist, Travel + Leisure, Vogue, and many trade publications in the meetings industry. They have appeared twice on NBC's The Today Show. As speakers, seminar leaders, columnists and cruise line advisory board members, they influenced the growth of the corporate cruise market, which resulted in their induction into the cruise industry's Hall of Fame in 2009.
  In April 2018, Landry & Kling co-founder Jo King retired from the trailblazing company that bears her name.
caption: Joyce Landry and Jo Kling, Co-founders of Landry Kling Inc.
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