PRT Travel is a travel agency that helps you to find the best deals and discount prices on hotels, car rental, airfares, theme park tickets, and cruises.  Two men by name of Steve Little and Mike Azure founded it in 2000.  According to research these men are thought to be con artists due to their suspicious habits.  PRT Travel has a VERY BAD reputation and should be avoided.  They have been featured on MSNBC and Consumer Guide for being a scamming company.

If you want to be a part of PRT Travels team you will first have to make a few investments.  In order to get started you must first purchase the Online Associate Travel Agent Training Manual which will cost you a whopping $120.  You will also be required to sign a contract and put a credit card on file for them to charge your card $19.95 a month for the “Business Maintenance” fee. 

Once you have signed up and signed their BOGUS contract you will be required to take a 20 question exam. PRT Travel instructs you to read and study their “training manual”.  No pressure because what they don’t tell you is the test will be simple to ensure that you will pass and they can take some more money from you.  As soon as you have passed the test they will issue you an “Online Travel Agent Card”.

After you have completed this whole process you will need to learn the insides of their travel site.  PRT Travel states that this step is very important since you will need to be able to guide your “clients” through all sections of the site.  The fact is PRT Travel does not have any authority to issue you any “credentials” since they are not properly trained to do so. 

PRT Travel is not affiliated with any of the travel associations. This means that it is technically illegal for them to be offering any of these services. The two men that run this site have built a career around developing these phony companies, scamming innocent people out of their money, and then disappearing.  It is almost like a “Where’s Waldo?” type of game.  You never know which industry they will pop up in next.

When researching I found that they also conduct this same business under the Global Travel Trends or GT Trends name.  According to the Better Business Bauru they are not members, however there have still been 34 complaints since 2004.  They attempted to resolve less than half of these.