Travel agent MLM?

[skyandocean]

So I've been seeing alot of people on Instagram trying to get people on board to become travel agents, they would get insider trades to book their own holidays making a saving, and then if they want to they can make it a business for themself and book for family friends and others to make more money as with every booking they would earn commission.
There's two very smart women that I've been following for years, they have recently got in to this travel agent thing and constantly advertise it on their story, bc of their large following already they have managed to get a lot of people on board, they do 1-1 sessions if you're interested, zoom calls etc. there is a joining fee and thereafter a monthly subscription as you are getting access to their system that gives the insider rates.

At the moment they are having this huge international convention where all of the travel agents are attending. It looks very mlm, the person I follow mentioned she's getting paid whilst being on that convention/holiday.

Does anyone on here know more about this, whether you can really make a business out of it? I just don't see how that's possible when you're constantly recruiting travel agents, so essentially business is taken away from you. Why would you have a travel business when in the same area there's another 30 travel agents.

MLMs are SCAMS

You never hear of 'agents' retiring on their earnings. What you do see is them going from MLM to MLM to MLM

Pity in some ways those posts were deleted.

They were the perfect example of the big sell.

I know someone who recently got into this and it sounds like such a scam. The giveaway for me, is that if they're so successful and making so much money selling holidays, why do they focus so much effort on pushing "the opportunity " rather than the holidays? Why do they want to create competition for themselves?

I work in a hotel and we regularly get emails from Inteletravel agents. They ask for discounted rates so they can experience the hotel in order to recommend it to their clients. As soon as we don't offer a discount and advise we don't pay commission they disappear. I think people see it as a way of getting discounted holidays for themselves.

Spot on. In a nutshell.