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YTB Travel, Inc. Travel Partner Program

YTB Travel, Inc. Travel Partner Program. Helping Ministries Do God’s Work. Business Proposal for your ministry. Redirecting funds away from secular companies back into the kingdom of God. James Prewitt: National Director 214 402-8351. References.

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YTB Travel, Inc. Travel Partner Program

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  1. YTB Travel, Inc. Travel Partner Program Helping Ministries Do God’s Work Business Proposal for your ministry. Redirecting funds away from secular companies back into the kingdom of God James Prewitt: National Director 214 402-8351

  2. References • Pastor Charles Thompson, YTB Director • (305) 788-7962 • Rev. James “Bonecrusher” Smith, Director • (910) 658-3408 • Pastor Roland Athouris, YTB Director • (786) 326-7646 • Apostle V. B. Washington • (313) 475-0871 • Bishop Walter L. Hawkins • (209) 838-3105

  3. Executive Summary • YTB will provide your ministry with it’s owncustomized, full service, world wide online booking engine. You will receive 60% of the vender commissions when travel is booked on your customized web site 24 hours per day, 7 days per week . Partners book the travel themselves. The travel commissions are tracked for you. Commissions are paid to you from third party venders not partners. Overall experience is enhanced, creating one stop convenience, all while providing additional resources.

  4. YTB International, Inc. • How do you offer another sensible way to reap a harvest through partnership with your ministry. • There is a way to make an eternal impact for the kingdom of God by enjoying travel services through your ministry. • Repeat and referral business allows an additional stream of resources without partners leaving their home.

  5. How can YTB Help? YTB Provides your ministry with a customized online booking engine. Participants become travel partners. As partners book their travel using your website it creates a consistent stream of commissions paid by third party vendors. A significant portion of these funds are paid to your ministry as commissions. The booking engine uses the same technology and provides the same features and prices as other online booking engines such as Expedia®, Orbitz® and Travelocity®.

  6. ENHANCE YOUR PARTNERS OVERALL EXPERIENCE! TURN VACATIONS INTO DONATIONS Imagine having a seed sown into your ministry every time members, staff, associates and friends take a cruise, rent a car, stay in a hotel, book a flight, even purchases theater tickets. Just imagine what can happen when others recommend this service to their friends and families. The commissions are redirected away from secular companies back into the kingdom of God. Imagine the increase!

  7. Why Travel? • WORLD’S LARGEST INDUSTRY • Travel is the world’s largest industry, and growing 23% faster than the global economy • 7 Trillion dollar industry worldwide, (over 1 million dollars per minute), 1.4 Trillion in the U.S. • Travel is a “big ticket” item producing significant commissions • UNIVERSAL APPEAL & DEMAND • Everyone Loves to Travel • Travel is expected to double to $14 trillion by the end of the decade • INDUSTRY MARKET SHIFT • On-Line Travel is the Fastest Growing Commercial Internet Segment • 85% of travel is booked online • Travel is the most searched word on the Internet

  8. YTB Travel, Inc. • Home office in Edwardsville, Illinois • Founded in 2001 • Publicly Traded - Symbol YTBL.PK • Over 1/2 Billion Dollars in travel booked in 2004 • Key Industry Alliances: Worldspan, Hotels.com, Priceline.com, CheapSeats.com, Apple Vacations, Sandals, Super clubs, RCI Condos, Carnival and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and more

  9. AIRLINE RESERVATIONS CRUISE RESERVATIONS HOTEL RESERVATIONS GROUP TRAVEL VACATION PACKAGES WEEKEND ESCAPES ISLAND RESORT PACKAGES RAIL TRIPS RENTAL CARS SITE SEEING TOURS CUSTOM GROUP PACKAGES Booking Engine Features • SPORTING EVENTS • CONCERT TICKETS • THEATER TICKETS • THEME PARK TICKETS • LIMOUSINE SERVICE • GOLF VACATION PACKAGES • GOLF TEE TIMES • RESTAURANT RESERVATIONS • SPA FINDER RESERVATIONS • HONEYMOON REGISTRY • AND MUCH, MUCH MORE

  10. Program Business Model Turn Vacations Into Donations! Travel Partners visit customized website to book personal travel www.yourtravelstore.com YTB provides turnkey marketing program Ministry receives funds paid by third party vendors - not travel partners customized booking engine provides travel partners with competitive online rates

  11. Marketing/Promotion Turn Vacations Into Donations! This year when you and your family start dreaming of far away places. Think for a minute about helping us spread the gospel around the world. The BMU has just launched a new travel service for Southern Baptists interested in promoting foreign missions. It’s So Simple To Do Go to wwwbmutravel.com. And book your travel just like using any of the other travel websites. You’ll get the same choices and the same low rates, but you’ll be helping a cause you believe in. Each time you book travel on our website, the Baptist Missions Commission will receive 40% of the travel commissions paid by the travel companies you use…with absolutely no cost to you. This could mean a tremendous increase in funding our foreign missions. So remember every time you book travel, think of us. Each time you book your travel at www.bmutravel .com 40% of the travel commissions are donated to the Baptist Foreign Missions Commission www.yourtravelstore.com • YTB Provides a complete marketing kit to use with promoting your travel program. Your marketing kit includes: • Display ads • Posters • Inserts • Emails • Website Banner Ads • Envelope Stuffers • If your ministry requires marketing material with a customized focus: we can help.

  12. Produce a Financial Windfall With the YTB program you receive a substantial share of the revenue from your travel website. 60% of travel commissions from the website go directly to your ministry. Below is a very conservative example of the increase potential. 100,000 Total Travel Partner Base x 5% participation = 5,000 Participating partners x $1,700 average yearly vacation per customer x 10% Average commission rate = $ 850,000 in travel commissions x 60% your commission percentage = $ 510,000 in Revenue for Your Ministry

  13. Powerful Commission Tracking • You receive detailed reporting capabilities to track commissions and the success of your program. • The image to the right shows actual transactions and commissions generated by a YTB Account. • Commissions may be tracked per ministry.

  14. YTB International, Inc. • Automated Travel Marketer (ATM) • Your travel web site comes with an internal marketing service. • Travel partners have the ability to input their own e-mail address and register to receive travel specials on a weekly basis. YTB will market, on your behalf, travel specials once per week to the registered partner. Should the partners elect to take the travel special, your ministry receives 60% travel commissions.

  15. Program Benefits • Company booking engine provides participants with competitive online rates • Relatively low participation rate by membership still produces significant revenue • Commissions paid by third party vendors not travel partners • Program operates 24/7 producing perpetual revenue • Customized booking engine provides additional exposure • Trackable commissions • Turnkey marketing program • Continued support • Non-contractual • High perceived value • Program cost is a one time fee of $449.95 and $49.95 per month for all services

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