The Foreign Package Holidays (Tour Operators and Travel Agents) Order 2001

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Foreign Package Holidays (Tour Operators and Travel Agents) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 20th August 2001.

(2) In this Order—

“accommodation” means the provision of place to sleep, including the provision of a site for the erection of a tent or a parking place for a caravan, mobile home or other similar vehicle, but does not include the provision of sleeping accommodation in a means of transport unless that accommodation represents a substantial proportion of the accommodation for the holiday;

“foreign package holiday” means services, accommodation and facilities provided under a contract, made within the United Kingdom, by a tour operator for a holiday outside the United Kingdom provided transport to or from the United Kingdom and accommodation outside the United Kingdom (whether or not for the duration of the holiday) are included;

“inducement” means a benefit, whether pecuniary or not, offered by a travel agent as an incentive to acquire a foreign package holiday through him;

“most favoured customer requirement” means a requirement contained within an agreement between a travel agent and tour operator which obliges the travel agent, when supplying or offering to supply foreign package holidays of that operator, to offer inducements at least equal in value to or marginally less in value than the inducements which the travel agent applies when supplying or offering to supply the foreign package holidays of another tour operator;

“tour operator” means a person who, otherwise than occasionally, organises foreign package holidays and supplies or offers them for supply, whether directly or through a travel agent;

“travel agent” means a person who supplies or offers for supply a foreign package holiday organised by a tour operator; and

“travel insurance” means any policy of insurance against the risks to any person arising during or in connection with a foreign package holiday.