WOOD RIVER, Ill., Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- YTB International, Inc. (Pink Sheets: YTBLA) (YTB), a leading provider of Internet-based travel booking services for travel agencies and home-based independent representatives in the United States, today announced that the company's top one thousand Reps and Referring Travel Agents (RTAs) will join chairman and founder Lloyd "Coach" Tomer for Coach's Annual Birthday Bash cruise. This year's celebration, the largest in company history, will be a three-day Carnival Sensation Cruise to the Bahamas, where the company has reserved the entire ship.
"I am so honored to spend my birthday with YTB RTAs and Reps who make up the heart and soul of the company. There is no one I'd rather celebrate with," said Coach Tomer. "It is great to see these parties get bigger and bigger every year as our YTB family continues to grow. I'm also pleased for the opportunity to give back to our sales team for all of the hard work they do every day."
Birthday Bash attendees, more than 2,000 people, include YTB Sales Directors, the top 500 Reps in Power Team sales, and the 500 RTAs who sold the most travel between August 18 - December 2, 2007. This includes cruises, tours, and vacation packages. This year the average sales for Birthday Bash attendees far exceeded any previous year, which shows the growing strength of the company's travel sales. In fact, YTB was named by Travel Weekly as one of the top eleven leisure travel agencies and the 35th largest overall seller of travel in 2006. The company's exclusive packages to the Beijing Olympics will certainly help grow those numbers further in 2008.
About YTB International
Recognized as the 35th largest seller of travel in the U.S. in 2006 by Travel Weekly, YTB International, Inc. provides Internet-based travel booking services for travel agencies and home-based independent representatives in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. It operates through three subsidiaries: YourTravelBiz.com, Inc., YTB Travel Network, Inc., and REZconnect Technologies, Inc. YourTravelBiz.com division focuses on marketing online travel agencies through a nationwide network of independent business people, known as 'Reps.' YTB Travel Network division establishes and maintains travel vendor relationships, books travel transactions of online travel agents (RTAs, now numbering more than 135,000), collects travel commissions and pays sales commissions. Each RTA sells travel through a personalized Internet-based travel website. The REZconnect Technologies division builds online reservation systems for suppliers within the travel industry. For more information, visit http://www.ytbi.com/investor.
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