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YTB - Beginning of the End?

Breaking News Story Affecting Travel Agents
California Launches Suit To Topple YTB

California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today sued
YourTravelBiz.com for operating a gigantic pyramid scheme that
recruited tens of thousands of members with deceptive claims that
members could earn huge sums of money through its online travel
agencies.

The story was broken by none other than TRO's John Frenaye on his blog
MLM's And Travel - a bad mix. Frenaye's year-long crusade against the
worst aspects of YTB has been relentless, earning him the scorn of
literally thousands of YTB psuedo agents and the admiration of an
equal number of traditional travel agents. "I am happy to see that
some legal authority has now seen fit to begin to look into what was
so obvious to me for a long time," said Frenaye.

While this will no doubt encourage other state authorities to look
into YTB's practices, it is the opinion of TRO that the next
permutation of MLM card mills is just around the corner. Until the
travel industry defines for itself and the public a precise definition
of who is and is not a travel agent, a legal way of defining who can
call themselves a travel agent (think "Realtor"), the issue will crop
up again and again.

When it does, I suspect John Frenaye will be there when it does to
take a whack at the mole.

Richard Earls
Publisher
Travel Research Online