Mark Murphy, President of Travel Pulse has a very compelling column today on YTB. In it, he has said
The YTB business is one where the focus is on recruiting and getting individuals to set up their own “travel store” online, as if customers are suddenly going to appear and start booking thousands of dollars of travel at some no-name website. Indeed, one needs only to look at the compensation earned by these “entrepreneurs” to understand that the only thing being built is the business owned and controlled by the people who actually run YTB and those who buy its over-the-counter stock.In yesterday's editorial, Richard Earls of Travel Research Online also commented on the YTB situation
The list of grievances against YTB is a lengthy one. They recruit on the basis of “travel benefits” with an evangelical fervor that would make Jimmy Swaggart envious. But then anyone can be a travel agent, right? Take a look at the California attorney general’s suit against YTB and you can gather a pretty good compendium of the problems inherent in their “anyone can be a travel agent” sales pitch.
That's really very interesting considering that Modern Agent is absolutely infested/overrun with YTB RTAs!
ReplyDeleteI think it's great that both TRO and Modern Agent are taking a stand.
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