‘I was making no money’: Travel agent side hustle promoted by influencers criticised over fees
Source: The Guardian ·
Would-be marketers enticed by online talk of entering a world of travel and easy cash find that the reality is rather differentMonths before she entered the Love Island villa, the content creator Yasmin Hadlow promised viewers of her online videos that they could “catch flights and get paid mid-air”. All they had to do, she said, was send her a direct message with the word “freedom”.The…
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Months before she entered the Love Island villa, the content creator Yasmin Hadlow promised viewers of her online videos that they could “catch flights and get paid mid-air”. All they had to do, she said, was send her a direct message with the word “freedom”. The 23-year-old is among several influencers and celebrities, including the former Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison, working for PlanNet Marketing, which recruits people to work as independent travel agents with a separate US business, InteleTravel. Pattison’s Instagram page, Vickys Vacays, says it helps women “build confidence, income and freedom through a supportive online travel business”. It sounds like a great way to make money. But the Guardian has spoken to seven people who were recruited as InteleTravel agents by PlanNet Marketing reps, not the influencers mentioned above, who said they struggled to make money once sign-up costs and monthly fees were taken into account. Some of them said the people who recruited them…