DreamTrips launched following the collapse of the WorldVentures pyramid scheme in late 2020.

Publicly DreamTrips was headed up by former Nerium promoters Mark and Tammy Smith. Who specifically owns DreamTrips however has been hidden from the public.

As part of bankruptcy proceedings following WorldVentures’ collapse, Verona International Holdings announced it had acquired rights to the DreamTrips name (WorldVentures branded its travel membership as DreamTrips).

To the best of my knowledge who owns Verona International has never been disclosed on DreamTrips’ website. This was a focal point of BehindMLM’s second DreamTrips review, published in October 2022.

With a bit of digging, I was able to confirm three Verona Holdings International’s Board of Director members; Mark Smith, Tammy Smith and Eric Haynes.

The Smiths (right) had only bought into Verona a few months prior to October 2022, meaning unless Haynes was the only other Board Member, who else was involved was kept secret.

Three years later and DreamTrips still fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website. There’s not even any mention of Mark and Tammy Smith.

On this point alone DreamTrips is an easy avoid. But for completeness, about a month ago word of a DreamTrips relaunch came across my desk.

With the caveat DreamTrips should be avoided till the MLM company at the very least discloses who owns and runs it, today we’re revisiting DreamTrips for an updated “relaunch” review.

The Company

As noted in the introduction of this review, DreamTrips fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

In addition to its original website domain (“dreamtrips.com”), DreamTrips registered “dreamtripslaunch.com” for its relaunch.

DreamTrips’ “relaunch” website domain was registered on September 23rd, 2025. Both DreamTrips’ websites appear to be identical, so I’m not really sure what the point of a second domain is.

In the footer of both of DreamTrips’ website domain we find a reference to DreamTrips Legacy LLC.

DreamTrips Legacy LLC is a Texas company registered by Eric Haynes on September 17th, 2025. Mark Smith is the sole listed DreamTrips Legacy LLC company contact:

Five days after DreamTrips LLC was registered, DreamTrips’ relaunch website domain was also registered.

Does this mean Verona no longer owns DreamTrips? Is DreamTrips Legacy LLC owned by Verona? Is anyone else involved other than Mark Smith and Eric Haynes?

No idea. DreamTrips has failed to provide this basic due-diligence disclosure to consumers.

DreamTrips Products

DreamTrips markets two memberships that provide access to discounted travel:

  • Business Class Membership ($199 and then $67 a month) – access to DreamTrips booking platform, “curated experiences”, “build your own trips” and DreamTrips points
  • Founders Membership ($399 and then $145 a month) – adds “VIP airline lounge access”, 24/7 concierge services and an annual “Founders DreamTrip”

DreamTrip points, aka Travel Dollars are earned by paying travel membership fees. They are also awarded based on rank (see compensation plan details below).

$1 spent on membership fees = 1 Travel Dollar. Travel Dollars are non-transferable and can only be put towards future travel service bookings.

DreamTrips’ Compensation Plan

DreamTrips hides compensation plan details from the public. That is to say DreamTrips’ compensation plan is not provided on either of its websites.

This part of the review is based on an early November DreamTrips marketing webinar featuring Mark Smith.

DreamTrips Promoter Ranks

There are twelve promoter ranks within DreamTrips’ compensation plan.

Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:

  1. Brand Ambassador – sign up as a DreamTrips promoter
  2. Senior Brand Ambassador – generate 50 PV a month, and personally recruit and maintain two “active” promoters
  3. Traveler 1K – maintain 50 PV a month, personally recruit and maintain four “active” promoters and generate 1000 GV a month
  4. Traveler 5K – maintain 50 PV a month and four personally recruited “active” promoters, and generate 5000 GV a month
  5. Traveler 10K – maintain 50 PV a month and four personally recruited “active” promoters, and generate 10,000 GV a month
  6. Voyager 25K – generate and maintain 100 PV a month, maintain four personally recruited “active” promoters and generate 25,000 GV a month
  7. Voyager 50K – maintain 100 PV a month and four personally recruited “active” promoters, and generate 50,000 GV a month
  8. Global 100K – maintain 100 PV a month and four personally recruited “active” promoters, and generate 100,000 GV a month
  9. Global 250K – maintain 100 PV a month and four personally recruited “active” promoters, and generate 250,000 GV a month
  10. Global 500K – maintain 100 PV a month and four personally recruited “active” promoters, and generate 500,000 GV a month
  11. Global 1 Million – maintain 100 PV a month and four personally recruited “active” promoters, and generate 1,000,000 GV a month
  12. Global 2.5 Million – maintain 100 PV a month and four personally recruited “active” promoters, and generate 2,500,000 GV a month
  13. Atlas 5 million – maintain 100 PV a month and four personally recruited “active” promoters, and generate 5,000,000 GV a month

Note strictly speaking a month is four weekly pay-periods. To keep things simple I’ve just kept it at a month.

PV stands for “Personal Volume”. PV is generated by travel memberships sold to retail customers and/or recruited promoters. A DreamTrips promoters own travel membership purchase also counts towards PV.

  • a Business Class membership generates 200 PV upfront and then 50 PV a month
  • a Founders Membership generates 400 PV upfront and then 108 PV a month

GV stands for “Group Volume”. GV is PV generated by a DreamTrips promoter and their downline.

Note that the following GV restrictions apply:

  • up to 45% of required GV can come from two recruitment legs (45% each leg)
  • the remaining 10% must come from a third recruitment leg, which is also only counted from the stronger binary team side

For binary team details refer to “Residual Commissions” below.

Finally, being “active” requires a DreamTrips promoter to generate 50 PV (self-funded) or 150 PV (retail customer membership volume) a month.

First Order Bonus

The First Order Bonus pays a 20% on sales volume (PV) generated by new travel memberships, sold to either referred retail customers or recruited promoters.

Fast Start Bonus

DreamTrips rewards promoters who sell four travel memberships within their first 30 days.

If a DreamTrips promoter sells four memberships at the same or higher tier as their own membership purchase, they earn

  • $160 for Business Class memberships
  • $320 for Founders Memberships

Free Membership

If a DreamTrips promoter sells and maintains four active travel memberships at the same tier they bought in at, their own travel membership fee is waived from the following month.

Residual Commissions

DreamTrips pays residual commissions via a binary compensation structure.

A binary compensation structure places a promoter at the top of a binary team, split into two sides (left and right):

The first level of the binary team houses two positions. The second level of the binary team is generated by splitting these first two positions into another two positions each (4 positions).

Subsequent levels of the binary team are generated as required, with each new level housing twice as many positions as the previous level.

Positions in the binary team are filled via direct and indirect recruitment of promoters. Note there is no limit to how deep a binary team can grow.

At the end of each week DreamTrips tallies up membership sales volume on both sides of the binary team.

Promoters are paid a 10% to 20% residual commission rate, paid on weaker binary team side volume.

Note that DreamTrips caps weekly residual commissions based on rank:

  1. Traveler 1Ks earn a 10% residual commission rate capped at $500 a week
  2. Traveler 5Ks earn a 15% residual commission rate capped at $1000 a week
  3. Traveler 10Ks earn a 15% residual commission rate capped at $2000 a week
  4. Traveler 25Ks earn a 15% residual commission rate capped at $3500 a week
  5. Voyager 50Ks earn a 15% residual commission rate capped at $5000 a week
  6. Voyager 100Ks earn a 15% residual commission rate capped at $10,000 a week
  7. Global 250Ks earn a 15% residual commission rate, capped at $15,000 a week
  8. Global 500Ks earn a 15% residual commission rate, capped at $20,000 a week
  9. Global 1Ms earn an 18% residual commission rate, capped at $25,000 a week
  10. Global 2.5Ms earn an 18% residual commission rate, capped at $50,000 a week
  11. Atlas 5Ms earn a 20% residual commission rate, capped at $100,000 a week

Matching Bonus

DreamTrips pays a Matching Bonus on residual commissions earned on up to six generations.

DreamTrips defines a generation in a recruitment leg when a Traveler 1K or higher ranked promoter is found in the leg.

This ranked promoter caps off the first generation for that leg, with the second beginning immediately after.

If a second Traveler 1K or higher exists deeper in the leg, they cap off the second generation for the leg. The third generation of that leg then begins under them.

If no such ranked promoter exists, the second generation extends down the full depth of the recruitment leg.

Using this generational structure, DreamTrips promoters can qualify for a Matching Bonus on up to six generations per recruitment leg as follows:

  • Brand Ambassador through to Traveler 5Ks earn a 20% Matching Bonus on personally recruited promoters only
  • Traveler 10Ks earn a 20% Matching Bonus on personally recruited promoters plus 5% on up to one generation per recruitment leg
  • Traveler 25Ks earn a 20% Matching Bonus on personally recruited promoters plus 5% on up to two generations per recruitment leg
  • Voyager 50Ks earn a 20% Matching Bonus on personally recruited promoters plus 5% on up to three generations per recruitment leg
  • Voyager 100Ks earn a 20% Matching Bonus on personally recruited promoters plus 3% on up to four generations per recruitment leg
  • Global 250Ks earn a 20% Matching Bonus on personally recruited promoters plus 3% on up to five generations per recruitment leg
  • Global 500Ks and higher earn a 20% Matching Bonus on personally recruited promoters plus 1% on up to six generations per recruitment leg

Rank Achievement Bonus

DreamTrips rewards promoters for qualifying at Traveler 1K and higher with the following Rank Achievement Bonuses:

  1. qualify at Traveler 1K and receive $100 and then $12.50 a week
  2. qualify at Traveler 5K and receive $500 and then $37.50 a week (plus 50 Travel Dollars)
  3. qualify at Traveler 10K and receive $1000 and then $62.50 a week (plus 75 Travel Dollars)
  4. qualify at Voyager 25K and receive $2500 and then $125 a week (plus 125 Travel Dollars)
  5. qualify at Voyager 50K and receive 5000 Travel Dollars and then $250 a week (plus 250 Travel Dollars)
  6. qualify at Global 100K and receive 10,000 and then $500 a week (plus 500 Travel Dollars)
  7. qualify Global 250K and receive $25,000 and then $500 a week (plus 1250 Travel Dollars)
  8. qualify at Global 500K and receive $50,000 and then $1250 a week (plus 2500 Travel Dollars)
  9. qualify at Global 1 Million and receive a $100,000 “Jet Card” and then $3750 a week (plus 5000 Travel Dollars)
  10. qualify at Global 2.5 Million and receive “Four Seasons by Jet” and then $6250 a week (plus 5000 Travel Dollars)
  11. qualify at Atlas 5 Million and receive a “DreamTrips villa” and then $12,500 a week (plus 5000 Travel Dollars)

Joining DreamTrips

DreamTrips promoter membership is $50 annually.

DreamTrips Conclusion

DreamTrips’ relaunch does away with the “customer” facade and just lays the recruitment scheme that started with WorldVentures on the table.

As explained by Jefferson Santos in the same marketing webinar we had to cite for the compensation section of this review;

[14:55] What I want to do real quickly here is show you how to build from 1K to 10K … This is what you need to be focused on for activation for yourself and activation for your people.

So your first goal is to activate your four as founders. You need to activate your four.

And now what you want to do is you wanna continue to recruit.

Your second goal is to get your person to get their four.

Straight from the horse’s mouth on an official DreamTrips corporate webinar featuring Mark Smith.

At no point does Santos mention retail customers. I mean why would he? DreamTrips actively punishes promoters for making retail sales by slapping a 300% tax on PV qualification (50 PV vs 150 PV required).

Much easier to just buy a membership yourself, which reduces DreamTrips’s MLM opportunity to “pay membership fees and recruit others who do the same”. The same model dating back to WorldVentures.

Other than rank renames, getting rid of the Customer Acquisition Bonus and slashing the travel memberships from up to $2499 and $499.99 a month to $399 and then $145 a month, nothing much has changed from BehindMLM’s second October 2022 DreamTrips review.

DreamTrips prevents consumers from conducting due-diligence on the company. Ownership, executive and compensation information is hidden from consumers.

Four years in and that’s an obvious intentional choice.

As for the whole “relaunch” thing. Why?

Are we at the point where tweaking a compensation plan is being marketed as a relaunch of the same company? I could see DreamTrips switching owners justifying a relaunch but that information has been kept from consumers since launch, so that’s obviously not it.

Oh and what’s this nonsense about being a twenty-year old company?

WorldVentures, if it still existed, would be twenty years old in 2025. But DreamTrips isn’t WorldVentures, it was a new company launched from the ashes of WorldVentures’ bankruptcy collapse.

Representing DreamTrips, which launched in 2021 and is now on its third iteration, to be a twenty-five year old company is extremely misleading.

Based on DreamTrips hiding company ownership and executive information from consumers, it’s an easy avoid recommendation.

Going past that we have a continuation of the pyramid scheme that started with WorldVentures. Obviously retail isn’t working at the previous membership tiers (it didn’t with WorldVentures either), and so DreamTrips has “relaunched” with a mask-off pricing structure budgeted toward recruitment.

By any other name DreamTrips current MLM offering is a defacto autoship recruitment scheme.

As with all MLM pyramid schemes, once promoter recruitment dries up so too will commissions.

This will see DreamTrips promoters at the bottom of the pyramid eventually stop paying monthly travel membership fees. This in turn will see those above them stop getting paid.

Unless new suckers are found, those promoters will eventually also stop paying monthly travel membership fees.

Once enough DreamTrips promoters stop paying monthly travel membership fees, an irreversible collapse is triggered.

As of October 2025, SimilarWeb was tracking just ~10,200 monthly visits to DreamTrip’s website. Might be time to let what’s left of WorldVentures’ pyramid scheme finally die.