While YTB ramps up to sell more cruises in a day than have ever been sold in one day on November 8th, one of the leading industry trade journals sheds some additional light on what it is to be YTB.
Arnie Weissmann, Executive Editor at Travel Weekly, wrote a column a few weeks ago about YTB and how they were good for the industry with their fresh blood. Now, after an avalanche of email on the column, Mr. Weissmann is seeing that the fresh blood, may indeed be blood that is being drank at the local YTB revival meeting.
I won't go into it all, but today's column is very telling. Perhaps the last paragraph is the most important. The MLM model will not survive in travel and perhaps YTB ought to concentrate on the 1% of their agents which are decent producers.
As I have said before, we are not opposed to ANYONE coming into the industry that can produce and is actively involved in marketing travel. The issue is when one purchases their way into the business and expects to reap the rewards and perks for $449.00.
PS: We also think that talking to a supplier while on the "throne" and flushing it is a bit tacky as well. That is what mute buttons are for on phones!
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