TOUR OPERATOR a) We are a “tour operator.” This means that we organize, promote, and sell tour programs consisting of certain travel services that are provided by independent third parties (“Suppliers”) except in very limited circumstances involving our affiliated Vessel Owners and Vessel Operators that own and operate certain of the vessels used on our tours. Except for this specific exception, all travel activities and services provided in connection with, before, after or during your tour or cruise including but not limited to hotels, restaurants and other food providers, tour guides (Trip Leaders and Program Directors), local guides, ground operators, providers of optional tours and shore excursions, or transportation of any kind by any vessel, aircraft, bus or other mode of transportation, are provided, owned and operated by independent third party contractors whose employees, facilities, products and services are not subject to our supervision or control.
b) In providing tour operator services or selling reservations or tickets in connection with any optional tours, shore excursions, services or transportation or by accompanying you during such activities, we do so as a convenience to you and shall be entitled to impose a charge and earn a profit from the sale of such excursions, services or transportation, but we do not undertake to supervise or control such independent contractors or their employees, facilities, products or services.
c) The Suppliers providing services for your tour are independent contractors and are not our agents, employees, servants, or joint venturers. To the extent we book air transportation for you, we act as an agent of the air carrier and not as your agent. For all other purposes, we do not act as an agent for any party whatsoever.
d) In the course of your tour, you may see the name Grand Circle or its brand names such as “Grand Circle Travel”, “Grand Circle Cruise Line”, “Overseas Adventure Travel” or hear or see the use of the word “our” to denote hotels, transportation vehicles or vessels. We may also use sign placards with these names. Any such use is purely for reasons of identification and does not denote any agency, joint venture, or ownership, supervision, or control by us in any way.
TOUR OPERATOR. For purposes of this agreement, a Tour Operator is defined as:
a. A ground operator who acts on behalf of a foreign principal; or
b. A foreign principal who acts directly; or
c. An authorized agent or nominated representative of a foreign principal; or
d. A local operator: who, as a normal part of its business, uses its distribution network to sell xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx facilities; and who makes reservations on behalf of tourists in accordance with xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx standard business rules for tour operators as determined by the terms and conditions of this agreement.
TOUR OPERATOR. We are a “tour operator.” This means that we organize, promote, and sell tour programs consisting of certain travel services that are provided by independent third parties (“Suppliers”) . All travel activities and services provided in connection with, before, after or during your tour or cruise including but not limited to hotels, restaurants and other food providers, tour guides (Trip Experience Leaders and Program Directors), local guides, ground operators, providers of optional tours and shore excursions, or transportation of any kind by any vessel, aircraft, bus or other mode of transportation, are provided, owned and operated by independent third party contractors whose employees, facilities, products and services are not subject to our supervision or control.
TOUR OPERATOR. Tour operators are enterprises that combine two or more travel services (e.g. transport, accommodation, catering, entertainment and sightseeing) and sell them through travel agencies or directly to tourists as a package (Xxxxx 2003). A tour operator is a focal firm that links all the SC partners acting as an intermediary between tourists and tourism service providers from upstream to downstream of a SC of tourism services. The tour operators plan and control a complete holiday package of accommodation, transport and services then market it directly to tourists or indirectly to travel agents (Center for Environmental Leadership 2003). “Tour operators are the crucial link in the distribution chain, representing the central connection between customers and providers of services and therefore having the power to influence sides, the demand and the supply, according to their interests” (Xxxxx 2003) “The principal role of intermediaries is to bring buyers and sellers together, either to create markets where they previously did not exist, or to make existing markets work more efficiently and thereby to expand market size. In all industries the task of intermediaries is to transform goods and services which consumers do not want, to a product that they do want.” (Xxxxxx et al.1998, p.189).
