What Is TVI Express

TVI Express a company that launched at the beginning of this year, 2009, has created a lot of buzz online and in the home business industry. Let’s take a hard look at the facts around this business and travel membership, so that you can make an informed decision about whether or not this company is for you.

A lot of times, you will not find relevant or good information online when researching a new company, so I want to provide the facts for you that will help you in your research process and in your decision making process of whether to join TVI Express.

TVI Express (TVI stands for Travel Ventures International) is an international company that is in pre-launch in the United States. It is a company that was started in the United Kingdom, in London. It now has offices in Heathrow and Cypress.

Let’s take a snapshot of this business opportunity and at the product behind the TVI Express travel membership.

What Exactly To You Get For Buying A TVI Membership?

The TVI Membership costs a one-time investment of $250 (plus exchange rate differences and processing fees running typically around $25).

When you purchase the travel membership, or a position in TVI, you receive a lifetime travel membership which can be accessed in your back office. This membership allows you to book discounted travel such as hotels, resorts, cruises, airfare, car rentals and attractions.

TVI guarantees their rates as the lowest and will match any lower rate with an additional 10% discount.

2. TVI provides their new members with a bonus travel voucher that can be used to book a 6-night stay at any of the hotels or resorts in their network. The certificate for this voucher can also be found and redeemed in the back office.

3. As a TVI member, you also receive affiliate status and have the ability to promote and resell the membership. TVI compensates its membership on a revolving matrix compensation plan that pays out $10,000 in cash and $5,000 in travel vouchers which can be used for travel.

TVI hit unexpected, explosive growth in the first few months of its infancy:

1. Three million dollars in sales in its first month live.

2. 320,000 new distributors by October, 2009 with a target goal of only 20,000.

3. 5 members who have earned over one million dollars.

4. A rate of over 40,000 new members added each month.

With such unexpected growth, one can imagine and almost expect growing pains for a brand new company. TVI experienced a solid month of intermittent website downtime in October.

Customer service was backed up with increasingly number of wire transfers and bonus travel vouchers to process. These issues got many members worried about the ability for company survival.

TVI corporate dedicated their time and effort to fix many these problems by:

1. Hiring the 1,000 new customer service representatives to support the growth.

2. Upgrading the server technology in order to handle increased website load.

3. Stopped receiving manual-intensive, direct wire transfers for processing voucher purchases by TVI leaders all over the world. Forced members to purchase vouchers using their Liberty Reserve or SolidTrustPay accounts.

4. Automated the process for bonus travel voucher redemption.

5. TVI formed a new partnership with WTB (World Travel Bureau) to piggy-back off their travel booking engine.

Some other facts about TVI Express include:

1. A partnership with RCI – one of the largest timeshare companies in the world.
2. Partnerships with other international travel-related companies such as Hilton, Virgin Airlines
3. TVI Express is verified by Trust Guard and it is backed by World Choice Travel.
4. A listing in Google’s Business Directory for TVI Express