§ 523 — Definitions

§ 523. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Travel services"\nmeans public transportation, public accommodations in hotels, motels or\nmotor courts, rental of motor vehicles or any other service related to\ntravel.\n 2. "Provider of travel services" means every person, firm or\ncorporation engaged in the business of furnishing travel, transportation\nor vacation services.\n 2-a. "Travel agent" shall mean any person, firm, corporation,\npartnership or association, other than a common carrier or employee of a\ncommon carrier, that is an officially appointed agent of a common\ncarrier and meets standards no less than those required on January\nfirst, nineteen hundred ninety, for authorized agents of the airline\nreporting corporation, or is a registered member of the Cruise Lines\nInternational Association and who operates exclusively as an agent for\ncruise lines in the sale of cruise travel products or services, and who,\nas a legal agent of a supplier, sells or offers for sale any travel,\ntransportation or vacation arrangements, or who negotiates for or holds\nhimself or herself out by solicitation, advertisement or otherwise as\none who sells, provides, furnishes contracts or arranges for such\ntravel, transportation or vacation services.\n 3. "Consumer" means a natural person.\n 4. "Credit card" and "issuer" shall have the same meanings as in\narticle twenty-nine-A of this chapter.\n