Legal Terms

Airline or carrier that publishes its transportation services timetable.

Towards the sea.

A part of a trip, also called a leg or portion.

A fee added to the bill to cover the cost of tipping or any fee as stated for providing the applicable service frequently used when agencies charge clients for the time and sale of noncommissionable items.

A brochure or flyer available from suppliers that has room available for travel agencies to place their own information or stamp.

Between the high and low season of fare or traffic period.

One who provides financial backing for another, but who neither participates in management of the business nor makes known his role as an investor.

The additional payment to be added to the double cost if the client is traveling alone.

The porter or baggage carrier at an airport.

An untrue oral utterance that harms the reputation of another.

The programming of a computer available in forms such as tapes or disks.

Often a reduced fare for travel industry people and airline employees allowing them to travel if there are empty seats available.

Retractable "fins" that extend from the sides of the ship to reduce sway and rolling and provide smoother sailing's.

A descriptive guide book for hotels.

A cabin on a ship.

A legal doctrine most commonly applied to manufacturers of defective products, which holds a defendant-manufacturer liable for injuries sustained through use of the product, regardless of any fault on behalf of the defendant. Attempts to apply this theory against travel agents have been uniformly rejected by the courts in the United States.

A deliberate interruption of an itinerary, agreed to in advance. Leaving the ship at a port of call and rejoining it at a subsequent port of call or upon the ship's return to the earlier port of call.

A small business corporation, described at Sections 1371 to 1379 of the Internal Revenue Code, which is given special tax benefits.

Any structure built on something else.

The actual producer of a unit of travel merchandise such as a carrier, hotel, sightseeing operator, etc.

A bond guaranteeing the performance of a contract or obligation.

Tourist activities whose principal purpose is for the enjoyment of sport.

Tourism which meets the needs of present tourists and host regions while protecting and enhancing opportunities for the future; leading to management of all resources in such a way that economic, social and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity and life support systems.

the property owned or leased and under the control of the ski area operator. The purpose of classifying this area is to define those areas of responsibility and affirmative acts for which ski area operators are liable for loss, damage, or injury, and to define those risks which the skiers expressly assume and for which there can be no recovery.

Is a person, business entity, or other legal entity that sells, provides, contracts for, represents or arranges travel services. Sellers of travel are referred to in different states as: travel agents, travel promoters, promoters of travel, travel brokers, travel intermediaries travel consultants, tour promoters, travel brokers, travel clubs, ocean cruise companies, charter companies, providers of travel certificates, telemarketing “boiler rooms, pseudo travel agents, consolidators, independent contractors, outside sales agents, Public Charter Tour Operators, time share promoters, and informational promoters.
Sellers of travel may include any person, business entity or other legal entity who provides railway service, taxi cab service, non-charter bus service, non-charter water ferry service, commuter transportation, or local sightseeing services; as well as any person or entity that rents, leases or sells transportation vehicles; and governmental entity.