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<strong>Leipzig</strong> | <strong>Travel</strong> Condtitions<br />

Please bear the fact in mind that the German version of these<br />

general terms and conditions is legally binding and the translation<br />

is only provided for your comprehension.<br />

1. Purpose of the Contract and the Status of the Contractual<br />

Parties<br />

1.1 The client wishes to carry out a package tour or otherwise<br />

perform tourist services for final customers as a responsible<br />

package tour operator pursuant to Section 651 a ff. of Bürgerliches<br />

Gesetzbuch (German Civil Code). For this purpose, it<br />

contracts <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH to procure<br />

the needed tourist services pursuant to the provisions of the<br />

contract hereto.<br />

1.2 <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH is not the tour operator<br />

or co-operator of the trip planned by the client. The client<br />

is the tour operator solely responsible to the travel customers<br />

as defined by Section 651a ff. of Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch<br />

(German Civil Code).<br />

2. Concluding Contract and the Basis of the Agreement<br />

2.1 The agreement only materialises with the written confirmation<br />

of <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH to the client.<br />

2.2 Incidental arrangements, modifications or supplements shall<br />

require the written form to be valid that <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und<br />

Marketing GmbH can provide with one-sided modifications in or<br />

supplements to booking confirmations.<br />

2.3 The contractual relationships are primarily dictated by the<br />

specifically made agreements and these booking conditions.<br />

The statutory regulations apply alternately over the contract for<br />

services.<br />

3. Services<br />

3.1 The services to be performed by <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und<br />

Marketing GmbH consist of procuring tourist services that the<br />

client uses for constructing a package tour it is planning or for<br />

other purposes.<br />

3.2 The services to be performed by <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und<br />

Marketing GmbH are to be found exclusively in the booking<br />

confirmation and documents explicitly referred to therein.<br />

3.3 Other prospects, statements and assurances of third<br />

parties, in particular the organisation rendering services, shall<br />

only be binding on <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH<br />

with an explicit written confirmation from it.<br />

3.4 In the absence of explicit agreements, the services of<br />

<strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH shall not include legal<br />

consultation of the client with reference to planning its travelling<br />

activities, handling booking, the layout of its trip description or<br />

in any other respect.<br />

4. Down Payment, Remaining Payment and Price Increases<br />

4.1. When the agreement is signed, the down payment<br />

designated in the booking confirmation shall be due for payment<br />

without further request.<br />

4.2 The remaining payment shall be due for payment as stated<br />

in the booking confirmation. In the absence of any specific<br />

agreements, this shall be purely met no later than when invoices<br />

are rendered 28 days before commencing performance.<br />

5. Services Not Claimed<br />

5.1 If the client does not claim any or only parts of agreed to<br />

services, he shall still be legally obliged to pay the agreed to<br />

total price without it being of importance why services were not<br />

claimed unless not claiming services arises from defects that<br />

<strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH is responsible for or<br />

<strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH is responsible for the<br />

fact that it is impossible to perform services.<br />

5.2 Saved expenditures shall be deducted from the full remuneration<br />

that <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH is entitled<br />

to in this case as soon as and to the extent that they were<br />

reimbursed to <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH by its<br />

contractual parties.<br />

5.3 If <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH can otherwise<br />

utilise services not claimed, the remuneration obligation for<br />

services not claimed shall be rendered invalid.<br />

5.4 Other cancellation (withdrawal) regulations agreed to in<br />

writing shall remain unaffected by the above provisions.<br />

6. Serving Notice or Withdrawing from the Agreement<br />

6.1 Withdrawal from the signed agreement shall be ruled<br />

out in the absence of any other explicit written agreements.<br />

Partial withdrawal or partial notice served on specific services<br />

shall be particularly ruled out in the absence of any other explicit<br />

agreements.<br />

6.2 The right to serve notice or withdraw from the agreement as<br />

per the custom of the trade shall be explicitly ruled out.<br />

6.3 After commencing the service, the client can only serve<br />

notice if there are substantial defects in the service or miscellaneous<br />

disturbances in the service that <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus<br />

und Marketing GmbH is responsible for. In this event, it is only<br />

permissible to serve notice after setting an appropriate extension<br />

for rectifying the defects or disturbance unless a particular<br />

interest on your side justifies serving notice immediately.<br />

6.4 <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH shall be entitled to<br />

withdraw from the agreement or to serve notice on the agreement<br />

in the following cases:<br />

a) if performance of the service is impossible for reasons<br />

beyond the control of <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH<br />

b) if the client or its travel customers substantially violate the<br />

obligations from this agreement or the concerns of <strong>Leipzig</strong><br />

Tourismus und Marketing GmbH<br />

c) if the down payment or remaining payment is not received by<br />

<strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH as per the agreement<br />

and on time after a warning and setting an extension.<br />

7. The Client’s Obligations<br />

7.1 If there are defects or disturbances in the performance of<br />

the service by <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH, the<br />

client shall undertake to notify <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing<br />

GmbH or its agents or organisations rendering services of<br />

them without delay and demand remedy setting an appropriate<br />

extension.<br />

7.2 The client shall only have warranty rights if the defect or<br />

disturbance is not rectified within an appropriate extension.<br />

7.3 The client shall be explicitly prohibited from submitting any<br />

declarations for legal transactions in the name of <strong>Leipzig</strong><br />

Tourismus und Marketing GmbH to its travel customers,<br />

particularly designating <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH<br />

as the contractual party and/or tour operator of the travel<br />

customer. Any mention of <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing<br />

GmbH by name in the trip description or miscellaneous documents<br />

that the travel customer becomes aware of shall require<br />

the prior written permission of <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing<br />

GmbH. Appropriate samples shall be submitted.<br />

7.4 The client is aware of the fact that the link of the service to<br />

be performed by <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH for<br />

the client with other tourist services generally means that the<br />

client becomes the tour operator in relation to the travel customer<br />

as defined by Section 651 a l of Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch<br />

(German Civil Code) and is liable to its travel customers pursuant<br />

to said regulations.<br />

7.5 In this event, the client shall be referred to the necessity<br />

of third-party liability insurance for personal injury and property<br />

damage for tour operators and the mandatory statutory<br />

regulations on safeguarding the client’s money (Section 651 k<br />

of Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch – German Civil Code and Section<br />

<strong>14</strong>7 b of the Gewerbeordnung – Industrial Code) and the Informationsverordnung<br />

für Reiseveranstalter (the Information<br />

Ordinance for Tour Operators). It warrants and assures that it<br />

will gather information on these statutory regulations on its own<br />

and comply with them if any are relevant.<br />

7.6 The client shall exempt <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing<br />

GmbH from all detriments that it could incur from non-compliance<br />

with said statutory regulations.<br />

8. Asserting Claims, Limitation of Actions and Liability<br />

8.1 The client has to assert all claims towards <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus<br />

und Marketing GmbH in connection with <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und<br />

Marketing GmbH performing services, regardless of the legal<br />

grounds, within two months after the end of performance provided<br />

for in the agreement.<br />

8.2 The client’s claims towards <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing<br />

GmbH, regardless of the legal grounds – however excluding<br />

the client’s claims from unallowed actions and bodily injury –<br />

shall be statute-barred in one year. Limitation of actions shall<br />

commence at the end of the year when the claim was incurred<br />

and the client and <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH (as<br />

the opponent to the claim) become aware of the circumstances<br />

justifying the claim against <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing<br />

GmbH or would have to become aware of them without gross<br />

negligence. If negotiations are pending between the client and<br />

<strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH on claims asserted or<br />

the circumstances justifying the claim, limitation of actions shall<br />

be suspended until the client or <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing<br />

GmbH refuses the continuation of negotiations. Limitation of<br />

actions of one year shall go into effect no earlier than 3 months<br />

after the end of suspension.<br />

8.3 The contractual liability of <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing<br />

GmbH for damage that is not physical injury (including liability<br />

for violating obligations from preliminary, subsidiary or subsequent<br />

contracts) shall be limited to three times the price of the<br />

service to be performed by <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing<br />

GmbH notwithstanding other legally mandatory regulations for<br />

liability to the extent that<br />

a) the loss of the client or its travel customer was neither<br />

brought about intentionally nor with gross negligence by <strong>Leipzig</strong><br />

Tourismus und Marketing GmbH, or<br />

b) <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH is solely responsible<br />

for damage the travel customer incurred due to the culpability of<br />

an organisation rendering services.<br />

9. Venue<br />

9.1 Only German law shall apply to the entire legal and contractual<br />

relationship between the client and <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und<br />

Marketing GmbH.<br />

9.2 The customer can only sue <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing<br />

GmbH at its headquarters.<br />

9.3 The client’s legal residence shall be authoritative for civil<br />

action of <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH against the<br />

client. The headquarters of <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing<br />

GmbH shall be agreed to as the venue for civil action against<br />

clients that are merchants, legal entities of public or private law<br />

or persons who have their legal residence or usual place of<br />

residence abroad, or whose legal residence or usual place of<br />

residence is not known when civil action is lodged.<br />

9.4 The above provisions shall not apply<br />

a) if and to the extent that something else results in favour<br />

of the client from provisions of international treaties that are<br />

applicable to the tourist travel agreement between the client<br />

and <strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH and are not subject<br />

to being contracted away, or<br />

b) if and to the extent that provisions that are applicable to the<br />

tourist travel agreement and are not subject to being contracted<br />

away in a member state of the European Union that the customer<br />

belongs to are more in favour of the client than the above<br />

provisions or the corresponding German rules.<br />

© These travel terms and conditions are copyrighted:<br />

<strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH and attorney-at-law<br />

Rainer Noll, Stuttgart, 2000–2006<br />

<strong>Leipzig</strong> Tourismus und Marketing GmbH<br />

Registration court: AG <strong>Leipzig</strong> HRB 123 48<br />

Augustusplatz 9,<br />

04109 <strong>Leipzig</strong>, Germany<br />

Phone: +49 (0)341 710 4275<br />

Fax: +49 (0)341 710 4251<br />

E-mail: incoming@ltm-leipzig.de<br />

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