YTB International Announces Removal from OTC

EDWARDSVILLE, IL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/01/2006 -- YTB International, Inc. (the "Company") (PINKSHEETS: YTBL) announced today that its common stock has been removed from trading on the OTC Bulletin Board as a result of its annual report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2005 having not yet been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). As previously reported on our Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on February 7, 2006, the Company is in the process of having its previously-filed SEC annual reports from 2003 and 2004 audited by UHY LLP, the Company's new independently registered public accounting firm. The Company believes that it has made significant progress in this audit process and will be able to file its required reports for the year ended December 31, 2005 and the first quarter of 2006, as well as the amended 2003 and 2004 reports, in the near future, which the Company believes would result in the renewed trading of the Company's common stock on the OTC Bulletin Board.