How much can you earn with MLM InteleTravel?
Over the past few years, we’ve seen a growth in social media posts promoting the income opportiunities with travel MLM InteleTravel. We’ve even seen managers from other MLMs, like Forever Living, defect and join.
The message (accompanied with glamorous travel and socialising posts) seems to be that, not only can you earn an income from selling holidays to family and friends, but you can even earn from your own travel. So what’s the truth? Is it really possible to earn an income from InteleTravel? Or is it a scam or pyramid scheme?
In our experience, the hype around multi-level marketing companies (MLMs) never matches up to the reality of the earning potential once you join. And from what we can find, Inteletravel seems to be no different. So let’s find out how the company works and how much you can potentially make if you join.
How much does it cost to join InteleTravel?
Like most MLMs, you need to pay money to join InteleTravel. Your costs are currently a £142 one-time enrolment in order to become a travel advisor, and then £32 a month for “Monthly Support & Service”. This means your costs for the first year are at least £526.
However, as with all MLMs, this is not your only business cost. You’ll be encouraged to travel to events (at your own cost) and incur other usual business expenses, including business cards, which is a condition of their profit guarantee.
What is InteleTravel’s profit guarantee?
InteleTravel offer their Advisors a profit guarantee. Here’s what they say:
However, it comes with a few requirements and caveats.
You must claim the guarantee by writing within 30 days after the one year anniversary of your enrollment. InteleTravel will then calculate “your earnings from travel commissions and other bonuses, and your savings from any discount travel purchases and industry privileges for you and your travel companions”.
If they amount to less than the enrollment fee and monthly access fees you have paid to InteleTravel in your first year, they will refund you the difference. We calculate the total of the enrollment fee and monthly access fees for one year to be £526 (£142 and £32 x 12).
To be eligible to claim this, you need to meet a number of stringent requirements, including:
- You must have sold at least one cruise or vacation package through an InteleTravel.com preferred partner that has sailed, or has been paid in full and is nonrefundable, in your first year.
- You must have made at least one hotel room night reservation with a completed stay, per quarter in your first year.
As you can see, this profit guarantee does not protect you if you are unable to sell a holiday. In fact, we believe it’s structured in such a way to give the illusion of offering a safety net, but in reality doing no such thing. For if you have sold the required travel packages and hotel stays to qualify, it’s unlikely you’ll get much, if any, money back.
They also require that you “must have purchased and received InteleTravel.com business cards in your first 90 days” to qualify for the guarantee. This cost is not refunded to you.
Here’s what you see in full when you click on Important Requirements under their First-Year Profit Guarantee:
How educated are InteleTravel Advisors?
InteleTravel Advisors are clearly advised to claim they are the “most educated in the travel industry”:
Yet at the same time, InteleTravel also claim that you can get started after just watching a short video course:
“There is a simple video course you review, with basic quizzes after each YouTube-style short video, in total less than two hours of viewing. You are only required to view that course and read our training materials, which you can do in a few hours at home.”
These barely trained ‘Advisors’ are in charge of helping customers plan and book expensive and potentially complicated travel arrangements and holidays. And if things go wrong? They are the people you will need to rely on to fix it, as InteleTravel’s Agency Terms of Business state:
“Because the contract(s) for your travel arrangements is between you and the principal(s) or supplier(s), any queries or concerns relating to the travel arrangements should be addressed to them. If you have a problem whilst on holiday, this must be reported to the principal/supplier or their local supplier or agent immediately.”
This leaves customers potentially at risk of ruined holidays if things go wrong – as this BBC news story covered: “Customers have said they were left with unbooked flights, unpaid hotels, and ended up out of pocket.”
If you make a mistake on a booking, you pay
If you are an Advisor, how much support do you get from InteleTravel if things do go wrong? After all, booking someone’s holiday is a big responsibility, with potentially expensive consequences if you a mistake.
According to this review on Trustpilot by a former InteleTravel Advisor, if you make an error with a customer’s booking, you are responsible:
“You have no proper booking support, and you aren’t covered by any errors or omissions insurance. So basically, if you make a booking mistake although Inteletravel will fix it, you have to pay for the error. This is be deducted from any commission or they will give you a repayment plan.”
Given the cost of travel, and the potential costs involved if you make a mistake on a flight, cruise or hotel stay, you could end up being significantly out of pocket.
How can you earn money with InteleTravel? And is InteleTravel an MLM?
So if you join InteleTravel, how can you make a profit? There are actually two ways you can earn money:
- You can earn commission from holidays you book for yourself and others
- You can earn money by recruiting others as Advisors as part of PlanNet Travel
Wondering where PlanNet Travel came from? Confusingly, the business is split into two separate companies:
- InteleTravel is the travel side of the business through which you make commission on bookings
- PlanNet Marketing is the MLM business where you recruit people to join InteleTravel and PlanNet Marketing
We believe this is done to give the illusion that InteleTravel is actually a legitimate travel business with genuine opportunities for the people who join, believing they can make money from selling holidays. It also enables Advisors to claim that it is not an MLM. However, the real business (we believe) is recruiting.
Not only that, in order to join InteleTravel, you need to enrol in PlanNet Marketing. Which means you need to sign up with an MLM company to participate:
Let’s find out how much people are actually earning with both InteleTravel and PlanNet Marketing.
How much does a Gold Builder at InteleTravel and PlanNet Marketing earn?
InteleTravel make it seem easy to earn with them by booking travel for customers. They say you can earn commissions from suppliers, which “range from 10% to 28% of the travel purchase”. InteleTravel then “pays 70% to 80% of those commissions to you”:
It seems an attractive proposition – you help family and friends find cheaper holidays, and earn up to 15% commission from the sale. You also earn commission on your own holiday bookings. Win-win! But that doesn’t seem to be the reality.
In 2022 a former InteleTravel Gold Builder called Charlie shared a breakdown of her income and costs in a video published on YouTube. She claims that: “I expected to get 10% back because it was advertised to me that you would get 10% commission… I then found out that we actually got 70% of the 10% commission.“
In total, she worked as an InteleTravel rep for 15 months. During that time she says she earned £216.74 in commission on holidays she booked, and £1,238 on recruitment. That meant her total earnings were £1,454.74.
From this income, she needed to deduct expenses. She says these were £846 in fees, and £320 in event tickets and travel, business cards, wallet fees, etc. Her total expenses added up to £1,166.
This left her with just £288.74 profit over 15 months – equivalent to £19.25 a month, according to her video. Assuming she worked more than two hours a month (which she most definitely did, as she says she was “addicted to social media” and “on my phone 24/7”), this means she was earning far below minimum wage.
And bear in mind that, according to the company’s own income disclosure statement (as you’ll see below), as a Gold Builder, Charlie was in the top 2.66% of the company.
Here’s a visual breakdown of her earnings:
What does the PlanNet income disclosure statement say?
Charlie’s experience ties in with what the company’s own income disclosure shows. Here’s what the PlanNet 2025 income disclosure statement says about potential earnings:
As you can see, 92.52% of people who join PlanNet marketing are Reps, and they earn an average of $38.15 a year, before expenses. Their expenses include the initial fee of $19.95, then a monthly charge of $19.95. So, on average, these people spent $259.35 in fees alone, and earned just $38.15 – leaving them with a loss of $221.20. And those aren’t their only costs, as Charlie’s video covered.
The income disclosure also shows that, as a Gold Builder, Charlie was in fact in the top 2.66% of earners in the company. Gold Builders, like Charlie, apparently earn an average of $4,865.04 a year before expenses.
And according to InteleTravel, this is aspirational:
“We believe the IDS can be a strong marketing tool; it shows that while the “average” Rep in 2025 earned $38.15 for the whole year, a small amount of extra effort to become a Bronze Builder bumped that earning potential to an average of $752.71, Silver Builders averaged $2,497.37 and Gold Builders averaged $4,865.04! Numbers don’t lie.”
But even if a Gold Builder were to achieve the average annual income of $4,865.04, that works out to be about £3,652 a year. After deducting your enrolment fee and monthly charge, you are left with £3,126. That is just £260.50 a month, before other expenses are deducted. This is achieved by only the top 2.66% of people who join the company. And it requires being “addicted to social media” and on your phone “24/7”.
You need to PAY to get your commissions from InteleTravel
In Charlie’s video, one of the expenses she mentions is “hidden wallet fees”. By this, we believe she’s referring to transaction charges made by the company’s Pay Portal, as referenced on her pay advice:
From our research, it appears that InteleTravel use a service like Hyperwallet to pay Advisors. This will usually come with charges for transactions:
- Bank transfers: You pay a small, fixed flat rate such as $1–$3 when moving funds to a local bank account.
- Card transfers: You pay a amall percentage or flat fee to send funds instantly to a debit or prepaid card.
- Inactive account fee: You may pay a monthly storage fee (around $3) if you leave funds in your pay portal for over 90 days without withdrawing.
- Currency conversion: You pay fees if you need to convert US commissions into pounds.
This kind of system, where you need to pay money to access your earnings, is common in MLMs in our experience. Here’s what Google says about it:
“Multi-level marketing (MLM) digital or e-wallet accounts often siphon distributor earnings through hidden administrative, transfer, and inactive maintenance fees. These platforms frequently market themselves as convenient payout portals while quietly deducting percentages or flat rates during cash-outs.”
What do people say about joining InteleTravel?
Charlie is far from alone in finding the opportunity sold to her at InteleTravel was disappointing. Here’s what some people have said about their experiences joining InteleTravel on Reddit and TrustPilot:
“I tried to cover my personal travel over the 6 months I was there. Across 8 trips, every single one of them was more expensive than me booking myself using booking.com!”
“Beware of false reviews. We were advised as agents and plannet reps to come on here and write positive reviews as the negative reviews were putting people off from signing up. Whilst some may have success in this business many do not. They charge you for any commission to be paid back to you. The prices are not competitive at all. And the agent rates they discuss can be cheaper but when you factor in your monthly fee it’s actually a joke. And definitely do not join the rep side all they promote is starting fake conversations with people on social media all so you can get them to join the business- disgusting, false and makes the whole company very untrustworthy.”
“If you’re considering joining this company I would read this carefully and give it a miss. If you see anyone saying they work online take it with a huge pinch of salt. If I don’t get my money back then I guess I’ll take this as a hard lesson learnt. I was very silly to jump at this thinking it would be the amazing thing for me. Most of these independent travel agents for inteletravel have zero experience and I’d be wary booking travel with them as a customer. I’d advise going to actual travel agents with years and years of experience and education. Not this company where you can become a travel agent in just a few hours. It doesn’t work like that and I’m proof of it.”
“You do all the training, lots of calls about how amazing everyone is and how they are ‘smashing it’. That’s the minority not the majority, and the majority of their earnings comes from recruitment, or booking their own travel. I had 8 work trips in my 6 months with inteltravel, every single one was more expensive booking with inteletravel. Yes I would have got commission, but it simply is not worth the admin required. Multiple friends asked me to price up trips, every time inteletravel was more expensive.”
“Most money made comes from recruitment, not actual travel sales. The scheme preys on people looking for additional income, making them sign up and pay monthly to have access to the booking system that lets you earn commission. What they don’t tell you is that the people who recruited you, the people who recruited your recruiter and so on, all take a cut of that commission too. In order to start making up for what you spent on the sign up fee, monthly fee, money withdrawal fee, fee fi fo fum fee and because they can fee, never mind to actually make profit, it will take a lot of time and effort. Its best to just save your money and avoid.”
“I have looked at several holidays with their ‘Preferred Partners’ and will tell you that every holiday/trip i looked at was actually cheaper going to the same company than it was through Inteletravel, so if someone quotes you a holiday from Inteletravel, find out who your quote is with and then look yourself and you will get it cheaper than Inteletravel.”
“Don’t be fooled. It’s your typical pyramid scheme. What a waste of time. I couldn’t once beat or even come close to any other prices we were always the most. I said the guys above me I can’t beat anything and their reply “no we can’t but try and encourage them to join to get better benefits”. Pay a monthly amount – try and trick people into joining. Not for me at all. Biggest scam ever.”
“The commission structure is deeply disappointing. In nearly a year of genuine effort, creative marketing and real commitment I earned approximately £175 in commission. I should make clear that the majority of this came from hotel bookings I made for my own personal medical trips to London — not from client bookings. I later discovered I could have booked those same hotels cheaper on the open market. My upline was earning commission on the back of my commission without providing me with any support, guidance or value whatsoever.”
Is InteleTravel a pyramid scheme?
So is InteleTravel a pyramid scheme? Here’s what one Advisor says regarding this: “[InteleTravel] is selling a genuine product (travel) which you can earn money from and this is why this is not a pyramid scheme.”
However, this is wrong. While, yes, having no product to sell absolutely makes a business a pyramid scheme, it’s not the only definition. Here’s how the Competition & Markets Authority define a pyramid scheme:
“Pyramid selling happens when participants in a scheme are financially compensated by other people paying into the scheme rather than by the selling of a product or service.”
We know from Charlie’s breakdown that she earned more in InteleTravel from recruitment (£1,238) than she did travel sales commission (£216.74). It is also important to note that some of her travel sales commission came from her own bookings. She even confesses that she would not have made some of these trips were she not an InteleTravel Advisor.
According to the Competition & Markets Authority’s definition, we believe this makes InteleTravel a pyramid scheme.
Why we don’t recommend joining InteleTravel
In our opinion, as with all MLMs, it’s not possible to earn decent money selling travel through InteleTravel. As far as we can tell, it operates just like any other MLM (despite trying to ‘hide’ the MLM side behind PlanNet Marketing) and we would recommend avoiding joining.
