Information about YTB International, Inc.
Current Operations
YTB International, Inc. was recognized as the 25th largest seller of travel in the U.S. in Travel Weekly's 2009 Power List, based on 2008 annual retail value of travel services booked. We are a leading marketer and provider of internet-based business solutions for individual consumers and home-based Independent Marketing Representatives offering travel-related services as well as shopping opportunities through over 550 affiliate stores and nine featured stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Canada, Bermuda, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. We operate through our two wholly-owned subsidiaries and their respective subsidiaries: ZamZuu, Inc. (formerly YTB Marketing, Inc. and YourTravelBiz.com, Inc., "ZamZuu") and YTB Travel Network, Inc. ("YTB Travel").
ZamZuu
ZamZuu, an e-commerce business solution, is strategically positioned in the world of e-commerce to not only continue to capture online travel sales but to also take advantage of the growing trend of online retail sales and is an expansion of shopYTB from 2009. ZamZuu is specifically designed for the individual who is interested in all facets of online retail. This business solution is sold for a set-up fee of $249.95 and a monthly hosting fee of $49.95.
In addition, ZamZuu establishes and sells Internet Travel Centers ("ITC” or "ITCs”), formerly referred to as Internet Business Centers, and Product Distribution Systems (" PDS" or " PDSs"), and compensates its Independent Marketing Representatives (" Reps") (independent contractors). Reps sell ITC and PDSs through a direct sales model and are compensated via a multilevel marketing commission structure. ZamZuu conducts business through marketing, training and support of its Rep sales force, which is responsible for marketing and selling PDSs to Business Owners (" BOs") and ITCs to Travel Store Owners (" TSOs"), the latter is a collective term for Affiliates, Referring Travel Agents and Travel Agents and formerly known as Site Owner, Travel Site Owners or Referring Travel Agents (Referring Travel Affiliates in Canada), most of whom work from their homes.
YTB Travel Network
YTB Travel provides customer access to online travel vendors within the ITC and PDS as well as access to over 550 affiliate stores and nine featured stores within the PDS. YTB Travel also supports online booking transactions, supplies personal fulfillment services, collects retail product and travel commissions from vendors, and pays retail product and travel sales commissions. YTB Travel is the e-commerce and travel management subsidiary that processes retail and travel sales from online vendors, processes and handles bookings (reservations) from ITCs and PDSs, negotiates deals with preferred vendors, and receives incentives based on the volume of business produced through the ITCs and PDSs. The fulfillment services are offered through interactive, real-time booking engines and include access to preferred deals with leading travel industry suppliers as well as high commissionable retail products with the launch of ZamZuu.
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