Restricted & Prohibited Businesses

Learn more about businesses prohibited from using WeTravel

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Any individual or business entity is prohibited from using WeTravel’s platform if associated with below operations and/or operating from or dealing/selling goods or services in one of our outlined high-risk jurisdictions. WeTravel will issue any entity or individual found or associated with the below restricted operations or regions a Denial of Service, with immediate effect.

WeTravel holds the right to issue a Denial of Service at any point in an individual’s or business entity’s dealings with the platform. WeTravel continues to monitor each individual and business entity using its platform for prohibited operations or regional activity.



Prohibited Regions

We prohibit the use of WeTravel’s platform and its entire services from any entities or individual organizers dealing, engaging or selling goods and services directly or indirectly in jurisdictions deemed by WeTravel as high risk. At this time, subject to updates at WeTravel’s discretion, these jurisdictions include: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Yemen and the Yemeni island of Socotra, and the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk Regions.

We prohibit the use of WeTravel’s platform and its entire services in high-risk jurisdictions with individuals or entities named to a restricted person or party list of the United States of America, United Kingdom, European Union or United Nations, including the sanctions lists maintained by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control or the Denied Persons List or Entity List maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

We prohibit the use of WeTravel's platform and services from any entity or individual located in the Russian Federation.

Prohibited Operations

  • Any individual or business entity that directly or indirectly a) engages in, encourages, promotes or celebrates unlawful violence or physical harm to persons or property, or b) engages in, encourages, promotes or celebrates unlawful violence toward any group based on race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other immutable characteristic.

  • Any individual or business entity that directly or indirectly engages in, encourages, promotes or celebrates the recruitment, control, or exploitation of minors.

  • Any individual or business entity that directly or indirectly works with pyramid schemes or multi-level marketing, network marketing and referral marketing programs, is subject to WeTravel’s discretion and includes any businesses where sellers receive revenue both from selling and from signing up new sellers, including Travel Clubs.

  • Any individual or business entity that directly or indirectly promotes ‘get rich quick’ schemes up to and including investment opportunities or other services that promise high rewards to mislead consumers; schemes that claim to offer high rewards for very little effort or up-front work; sites that promise fast and easy money; businesses that use deceptive testimonials, use high-pressure upselling, and/or use fake testimonials; (with or without a written contract) offering unrealistic incentives/rewards as an inducement to purchase products or services but do not respond to any queries after the purchase.

  • Any individual or business entity that directly or indirectly organizes big-game hunting, promotes big-game hunting experiences and or the exploitation of endangered animals.

  • Any individual or business entity that directly or indirectly features luxury or exotic car hire.

  • Any individual or business entity that directly or indirectly organizes trips featuring medical procedures in any form.

  • Any individual or business entity that directly or indirectly organizes trips featuring last-minute services and/or resellers i.e ticket sales.

  • Any individual or business entity that organizes in WeTravel sales of flight tickets without any other trip features i.e no accommodation as part of the trip cost breakdown.

  • Any individual or business entity that directly or indirectly offers mortgage consulting, lending, credit repair, and counseling services.

  • Any individual or business entity that directly or indirectly offers investment opportunities with no or low money down.

WeTravel holds the right to at any time to update or amend the list of operations and regions it prohibits. The above prohibited regions and operations are not exhaustive; WeTravel reserves the right to update and edit this list at its own discretion. Public statements will not be made to advise when the list has been updated or edited.

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