More bad news for YTB referring travel agents

The problems for YourTravelBiz.com (YTB) continue to multiply. Following last week’s legal action by the California Attorney General a class action law suit was filed in a federal court in Illinois and a regional Better Business Bureau (BBB) released complaints about YTB.

According to industry reports the federal action was filed in the U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois charging that YTB was operating an illegal pyramid scheme.

Two plaintiffs brought forth the suit and are seeking class action status on behalf of as many as 1,000 people who were members of the YTB travel network. As with the California suit, the defendants are YTB International Inc., YourTravelBiz.Com, YTB Travel Network Inc., YTB Travel Network of Illinois and its technology unit Rezconnect Technologies.

I admit that for today’s consumer there is a confusing mix of travel sellers and programs out there. When someone wants to sell you on the concept of recruiting travel agents walk but yet run away from the offer.
If you would like to learn how to sell travel and earn $$ and possibly qualify for free/reduced rate travel then you need to explore the “outside sales” approach.

I’ll explain more about this home based travel seller approach in future posts.
Got travel questions? Email them to me at thetravelprofessor@gmail.com.