Preferred Travel & Co. acquired Anchors Away Cruises & Tours, expanding the Naples-based travel agency’s luxury travel offerings into Dunedin and The Villages and increasing its total number of employees to more than 100. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Established in 1995, Anchors Away Cruises & Tours provides vacation planning, including cruises, cruise tours, land tours, resorts and river cruising. The company will continue to operate under its current name as a division of Preferred Travel. Its former owner, Edward Mass Jr., will remain on through the transition, and no changes are anticipated in staffing. Both Anchors Away Cruises & Tours locations in Dunedin and The Villages will be maintained. However, the team at the Dunedin location will transition to a new suite in the same building. The acquisition follows Preferred Travel’s acquisition of Landmark Travel in 2023.