18 December 2006

YTB Announces Expanded Agreement with World Choice, a Division of Travelocity


YTB International, Inc, (OTC BB: YTBL), a leading provider of internet-based travel services, announced that it has expanded its agreement with World Choice Travel, adivision of Travelocity, enabling our clients to book hotels via a privately branded booking engine. They also now have access to two industry leading dynamic packaging products, Last Minute Deals and Custom Trip. Our web based booking engines feature the same inventory and pricing as Travelocity.com.


“Our World Choice agreement represents another opportunity for our agents to develop an exclusive online business that combines two of the most popular trends today — the Internet and travel,” said Lloyd Tomer, YTB International's Chairman of the Board.

YTB's ability to refine and expand our agreements with travel vendors such as the World Choice division of Travelocity, provides our representatives such as the Sundance Travel with the confidence in selling travel through our diverse private labeled travel sites. Our powerful referral marketing program provides the support that has made our agents so successful. We look forward to continuing to grow through supporting and working closely with our agents, which now exceeds 9,500 reps.

“Our growing membership of travel agents will now be able to provide our significant customer base with the confidence to instantly and securely purchase travel fromover 55,000 hotels and resorts worldwide, including 15,000 plus hot rate hotels,” said Michael Brent, YTB's Chief Executive Officer. “Our development and hosting of localweb sites and real time reservations was designed to offer broad choices, low prices and excellent customer service. Now, with our expanded offerings, we will be able to offerour travel reps even more ways to provide cost-effective travel-related services.”

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