YTB Launches Web-Based Agent Training

WOOD RIVER, Ill., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- YTB International,Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: YTBLA) ("YTB" or the "Company"), a provider ofInternet- based travel booking services for travel agencies and home-basedindependent representatives in the United States, today announced thelaunch of "YTB E- Campus," a proprietary web-based training certificationand testing program for the Company's Referring Travel Agents (RTAs).    The YTB E-Campus program was designed by Dr. Marc Mancini, one of thetravel industry's most highly respected speakers, educators andconsultants. Dr Mancini and his firm are the creative force behind some ofthe best-known and most successful training programs in the business.    The YTB E-Campus instructional series is designed to be one of the mostambitious and comprehensive-training programs ever offered by a host agencyand will initially consist of 10 unique courses. The Company plans tointroduce a new course every six to eight weeks, until the 10 courses havebeen implemented. The first course, Overview of the Travel Industry, iscurrently active, and will be followed by courses on lodging, tours/groups,cruising, air, rail/car rentals, sales/service/marketing, and three courseson destination geography. Each course promises to be interactive,instructionally sound and entertaining.    TheAcademy.com, a San Antonio-based firm that specializes in travel-related training solutions, will design the program's web site.TheAcademy.com has built and currently manages several of the mostprominent certification programs in the travel industry.    J. Kim Sorensen, President and CEO of YTB Travel Network, said, "We areexcited about the launch of the YTB E-Campus program, and our partnershipwith Dr. Mancini. YTB E-Campus was developed to enhance our existing RTAtraining program by offering comprehensive courses via the Internet. Thelaunch of this program is not only an investment in our RTAs, but also along-term investment in growing our business and increasing shareholderequity."    About YTB International    YTB International, Inc. provides Internet-based travel booking servicesfor travel agencies and home-based independent representatives in theUnited States, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. It operates throughthree subsidiaries: YourTravelBiz.com, Inc., YTB Travel Network, Inc., andREZconnect Technologies, Inc. YourTravelBiz.com division focuses onmarketing online travel agencies through a nationwide network ofindependent business people, known as "Reps." YTB Travel Network divisionestablishes and maintains travel vendor relationships, books traveltransactions of online travel agents (RTAs, now numbering approximately123,000), collects travel commissions and pays sales commissions. Each RTAsells travel through a personalized Internet- based travel website. TheREZconnect Technologies division operates as a travel vendor relationshipmanagement company and offers franchises of brick and mortar travelagencies.    Statements about the Company's future expectations, including futurerevenues and earnings, and all other statements in this press release otherthan historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaningof Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the SecuritiesExchange of 1934, and as that term is defined in the Private LitigationReform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve risks anduncertainties and are subject to change at any time, and the Company'sactual results could differ materially from expected results. The Companyundertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflectsubsequently occurring events or circumstances.

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