WOOD RIVER, Ill., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- YTB International, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: YTBLA) ("YTB" or the "Company"), a provider of Internet-based travel booking services for travel agencies and home-based independent representatives in the United States, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Canada, today announced that the Company has been named as one of the country's leading travel agencies in Travel Weekly's 2009 Power List.
In the 2009 Travel Weekly Power List, YTB was ranked 25th overall with reported travel sales of $424 million for 2008.
The Travel Weekly Power List represents an effort to rank the nation's top travel companies, and is based on total dollar volume of travel bookings for 2008. The rankings also considered information on travel-related subsidiaries and corporate structure. Other leading online leisure travel agencies named in the 2009 Power List include Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline, and Travelocity.
YTB Travel Network, Inc. CEO J. Kim Sorensen commented on the new rankings, stating, "Our listing in the top-25 of this year's Travel Weekly Power rankings is particularly encouraging to our entire organization, given that it was achieved in the face of a significant global economic downturn. We also recognize that this accomplishment is a direct result of the hard work put in by our TSOs in the field, and I would like to congratulate them on this important accomplishment." Sorensen continued, "With 2008 travel sales just short of half a billion dollars, it is safe to say that we have established ourselves as a major force in our industry."
About YTB International
YTB provides Internet-based travel booking services for home-based independent representatives in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Canada, Bermuda, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Company operates through three subsidiaries: YTB Marketing, Inc., YTB Travel Network, Inc., and REZconnect Technologies, Inc.
For more information about YTB International visit http://www.ytb.com/ or http://www.thefactsaboutytb.com/.
Certain matters set forth in this news release may contain forward-looking statements that are provided to assist in the understanding of anticipated future financial performance. However, such performance involves risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in such statements. For a discussion of certain factors that may cause such forward-looking statements to differ materially from the Company's actual results, see the Company's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequently occurring events or circumstances.
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