Leipzig Travel 2013/14
Leipzig Travel 2013/14 - Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH
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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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