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"Andrew Dwyer" wrote in message
Andrew, Where on the site is your Vic. TA Registration number? -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books |
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Thanks for your message Tony. We are not a Travel Agent, we are a camping
tour operator Cheers Andrew "Tony Bailey" wrote in message . .. "Andrew Dwyer" wrote in message Andrew, Where on the site is your Vic. TA Registration number? -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books |
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"Andrew Dwyer" wrote in message
... Thanks for your message Tony. We are not a Travel Agent, we are a camping tour operator Cheers Andrew I beg to differ, you are definitely offering travel products - As your website has a Victorian address I refer you to two sites - The Travel Compensation fund http://www.tcf.org.au/tcf/default_industry.asp Q. Who needs a Travel Agents Licence? Generally, any business selling travel products totalling more than $30,000 per annum. However, the exact requirements vary from state to state, so advice should be sought from your local Licensing Authority http://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/bla/b...ges/bla_travel General information The Victorian Travel Agents Act 1986 regulates people and corporations who provide or offer to provide travel services for profit. A travel agent is any individual or company that: a.. Sells, resells, or offers to sell travel tickets; b.. Makes or offers to make travel arrangements; or, c.. Advertises any of those things. Many businesses are regarded as travel agents, including retail and corporate agents, tour wholesalers, consolidators, inbound tour operators, general sales agents, some bus or coach operators and some airlines. -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books |
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Tony Tony Tony, Dont you get tired of trying the same tired old cut n paste
posts, from your URL, http://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/bla/b...ges/bla_travel particularly the last line of this quoted text under the heading Exemptions Quoted text "General Information | Penalties | Exemptions | General information The Victorian Travel Agents Act 1986 regulates people and corporations who provide or offer to provide travel services for profit. A travel agent is any individual or company that: Sells, resells, or offers to sell travel tickets; Makes or offers to make travel arrangements; or, Advertises any of those things. Many businesses are regarded as travel agents, including retail and corporate agents, tour wholesalers, consolidators, inbound tour operators, general sales agents, some bus or coach operators and some airlines. To trade as a travel agent in Victoria you must hold a travel agent's licence, unless you are exempt under the Act. If you are in partnership with an individual or corporation acting as a travel agent they must also hold a licence. A licence is ongoing until it is surrendered, suspended or cancelled. Penalties You could be liable to a penalty of up to $50,000 or 12 months imprisonment if you act as a travel agent without being licensed. If you act as a travel agent without a licence you cannot recover any fees, commission or rewards for services you provided in the course of your business in an action in court. Exemptions Some people who supply travel services do not need to be licensed. Consult your legal adviser if you are uncertain. A licence may not be required if a person or company: Owns transport or accommodation for which users must buy a ticket; Operates camp tours but also owns the camping equipment and transport;" End quote they are now and always were tour operators, very good ones. you are barkin up the wrong tree, last time you said they didnt have an ABN, despite it being displayed on the web site, make up your mind what you want to bite em for, Your signature to all your posts does not include your ABN, membership of any professional association or other qualification to make a judgement, and isnt that what your complaint is about. Mine is a personal address only, and this is a singular message, I dont have any qualification, abn, TAreg, or anything else, I just don't like assholes, a very large group in which you are aspiring to rise to prominence -- Ever wonder why Evian water is $3 for a half litre Try spelling evian backwards _ _ "Tony Bailey" wrote in message ... | "Andrew Dwyer" wrote in message | ... | Thanks for your message Tony. We are not a Travel Agent, we are a camping | tour operator | Cheers | Andrew | | | I beg to differ, you are definitely offering travel products - | | As your website has a Victorian address I refer you to two sites - | | The Travel Compensation fund | | http://www.tcf.org.au/tcf/default_industry.asp | | Q. Who needs a Travel Agents Licence? | | Generally, any business selling travel products totalling more than | $30,000 per annum. However, the exact requirements vary from state to state, | so advice should be sought from your local Licensing Authority | | | | http://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/bla/b...ges/bla_travel | | | General information | The Victorian Travel Agents Act 1986 regulates people and | corporations who provide or offer to provide travel services for profit. | | A travel agent is any individual or company that: | a.. Sells, resells, or offers to sell travel tickets; | b.. Makes or offers to make travel arrangements; or, | c.. Advertises any of those things. | | Many businesses are regarded as travel agents, including retail and | corporate agents, tour wholesalers, consolidators, inbound tour operators, | general sales agents, some bus or coach operators and some airlines. | | | | | -- | Tony Bailey | Mercury Travel Books | | |
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"AlmostBob" wrote in message
news:thocc.16162 Mine is a personal address only, and this is a singular message, I dont have any qualification, abn, TAreg, or anything else, I just don't like assholes, a very large group in which you are aspiring to rise to prominence Bob, I'm not posting quasi advertisements here, and I'm not posting anonymously. I do some work for a registered and licensed Travel Agency (but no longer my own.) This work is mainly for my own band of out bound travellers. We do NOT do business with unlicensed providores? Why? Because if we took money off a client and paid it to an unlicensed provider and that provider went out of business the client would NOT generally be entitled to a refund from the Travel Compensation Fund and we would be in, to say the least, a very embarrassing situation. I like to warn people when they are getting into a difficult situation. If you have a problem with this, killfile me. I also post a fair bit of relevant travel news here, which I hope that some people like, if you don't want to read it killfile me. -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books |
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I am posting anonymously, since I dont want my personal email filled with
garbage, If you were to check the properties of any of my posts my nntp host is displayed and my actual address, I am in Canada, not posting from some friend of diamantina. I state again that you selectively quote from web sites without including the entire text that disavowed your position, that you have attacked the same poster for not displaying his ABN which is displayed, that they are not registered as travel agents, when under the regulations they are NOT travel agents so dont have to register as such. The only dealings I have had with diamantina is their staff acting to help out looking for some dumb [expletive deleted] who got themselves lost and half dead, along with about three hundred RAInf and RAAF members.out in the middle of nowhere. And where is your qualification to make your assessment, lots of people work for travel angents, they vaccuum carpets?, make coffee?, drive a bus? and "providores", is spelled providers pontificating I know, but you have a huges history of being an __________________________________________________ ____ Andrew, Where on the site is your Vic. TA Registration number? -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books __________________________________________________ _________ Interesting, Where on the site is their NSW TA Registration? -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books __________________________________________________ __________ I beg to differ, you are definitely offering travel products - As your website has a Victorian address I refer you to two sites - The Travel Compensation fund http://www.tcf.org.au/tcf/default_industry.asp Q. Who needs a Travel Agents Licence? Generally, any business selling travel products totalling more than $30,000 per annum. However, the exact requirements vary from state to state, so advice should be sought from your local Licensing Authority http://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/bla/b...ges/bla_travel General information The Victorian Travel Agents Act 1986 regulates people and corporations who provide or offer to provide travel services for profit. A travel agent is any individual or company that: a.. Sells, resells, or offers to sell travel tickets; b.. Makes or offers to make travel arrangements; or, c.. Advertises any of those things. Many businesses are regarded as travel agents, including retail and corporate agents, tour wholesalers, consolidators, inbound tour operators, general sales agents, some bus or coach operators and some airlines. -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books __________________________________________________ ___________ Interesting- 1) No travel agents registration details as required by the various registration requirements - very risky. 2) Absolutely NO company information. 3) An apparently incomplete web-site. Try elsewhere. -- Tony Bailey Mercury World Travel __________________________________________________ _________________ Sure looks like an ABN at the bottom of the contact info page. Yeah, what a funny place to put it - but, very importantly, there is no Victorian Travel Agents registration -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books __________________________________________________ I just dont like YOU very much -- Ever wonder why Evian water is $3 for a half litre Try spelling evian backwards Computer chips are very small, Computers don't eat much. _ _ "Tony Bailey" wrote in message u... | "AlmostBob" wrote in message | news:thocc.16162 Mine is a personal address only, and this is a singular | message, I dont have | any qualification, abn, TAreg, or anything else, I just don't like | assholes, a | very large group in which you are aspiring to rise to prominence | | | Bob, | | I'm not posting quasi advertisements here, and I'm not posting anonymously. | | I do some work for a registered and licensed Travel Agency (but no longer my | own.) This work is mainly for my own band of out bound travellers. | | We do NOT do business with unlicensed providores? Why? Because if we took | money off a client and paid it to an unlicensed provider and that provider | went out of business the client would NOT generally be entitled to a refund | from the Travel Compensation Fund and we would be in, to say the least, a | very embarrassing situation. | | I like to warn people when they are getting into a difficult situation. If | you have a problem with this, killfile me. | | I also post a fair bit of relevant travel news here, which I hope that some | people like, if you don't want to read it killfile me. | | -- | Tony Bailey | Mercury Travel Books | | |
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Thanks for weighing in Bob. I am astonished at the vexacious tone of the
accusations. Diamantina has been operating since 1988. We have won many awards, including a German Holiday Oscar for Best Adventure Tour Worldwide in 1994. We are foundation members of the Victorian Tourism Operators Association, and are licensed by National Parks in the States that we operate. We have invested heavily in plant and equipment for the purpose of vehicle based camping tours to remote regions. We are associated with some of the world's largest tour operators, including FTI, AOT, Travelbag UK to name a few. We conform to worlds best practise, and are proud to deliver the standard of product that we do. Our internet site provides a huge amount of information on the outback, which we include as a free service. We believe that by raising the profile of the outback it will increase peoples understanding of it, and therefore assist in its conservation and our knowledge of its complex eco systems. We have over the years achieved mentor status, and I have personally been guest speaker at seminars both here and in Europe and the UK. What really gets me hopping is the inference contained in Tony's suggestion that we are not licensed. We have every accreditation and license required, and if Tony cared to research both the legislative requirements and our operations before making public accusations, he wouldnt make such an ass of himself. Thanks again Bob, good on you! "AlmostBob" wrote in message ... I am posting anonymously, since I dont want my personal email filled with garbage, If you were to check the properties of any of my posts my nntp host is displayed and my actual address, I am in Canada, not posting from some friend of diamantina. I state again that you selectively quote from web sites without including the entire text that disavowed your position, that you have attacked the same poster for not displaying his ABN which is displayed, that they are not registered as travel agents, when under the regulations they are NOT travel agents so dont have to register as such. The only dealings I have had with diamantina is their staff acting to help out looking for some dumb [expletive deleted] who got themselves lost and half dead, along with about three hundred RAInf and RAAF members.out in the middle of nowhere. And where is your qualification to make your assessment, lots of people work for travel angents, they vaccuum carpets?, make coffee?, drive a bus? and "providores", is spelled providers pontificating I know, but you have a huges history of being an __________________________________________________ ____ Andrew, Where on the site is your Vic. TA Registration number? -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books __________________________________________________ _________ Interesting, Where on the site is their NSW TA Registration? -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books __________________________________________________ __________ I beg to differ, you are definitely offering travel products - As your website has a Victorian address I refer you to two sites - The Travel Compensation fund http://www.tcf.org.au/tcf/default_industry.asp Q. Who needs a Travel Agents Licence? Generally, any business selling travel products totalling more than $30,000 per annum. However, the exact requirements vary from state to state, so advice should be sought from your local Licensing Authority http://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/bla/b...ges/bla_travel General information The Victorian Travel Agents Act 1986 regulates people and corporations who provide or offer to provide travel services for profit. A travel agent is any individual or company that: a.. Sells, resells, or offers to sell travel tickets; b.. Makes or offers to make travel arrangements; or, c.. Advertises any of those things. Many businesses are regarded as travel agents, including retail and corporate agents, tour wholesalers, consolidators, inbound tour operators, general sales agents, some bus or coach operators and some airlines. -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books __________________________________________________ ___________ Interesting- 1) No travel agents registration details as required by the various registration requirements - very risky. 2) Absolutely NO company information. 3) An apparently incomplete web-site. Try elsewhere. -- Tony Bailey Mercury World Travel __________________________________________________ _________________ Sure looks like an ABN at the bottom of the contact info page. Yeah, what a funny place to put it - but, very importantly, there is no Victorian Travel Agents registration -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books __________________________________________________ I just dont like YOU very much -- Ever wonder why Evian water is $3 for a half litre Try spelling evian backwards Computer chips are very small, Computers don't eat much. _ _ "Tony Bailey" wrote in message u... | "AlmostBob" wrote in message | news:thocc.16162 Mine is a personal address only, and this is a singular | message, I dont have | any qualification, abn, TAreg, or anything else, I just don't like | assholes, a | very large group in which you are aspiring to rise to prominence | | | Bob, | | I'm not posting quasi advertisements here, and I'm not posting anonymously. | | I do some work for a registered and licensed Travel Agency (but no longer my | own.) This work is mainly for my own band of out bound travellers. | | We do NOT do business with unlicensed providores? Why? Because if we took | money off a client and paid it to an unlicensed provider and that provider | went out of business the client would NOT generally be entitled to a refund | from the Travel Compensation Fund and we would be in, to say the least, a | very embarrassing situation. | | I like to warn people when they are getting into a difficult situation. If | you have a problem with this, killfile me. | | I also post a fair bit of relevant travel news here, which I hope that some | people like, if you don't want to read it killfile me. | | -- | Tony Bailey | Mercury Travel Books | | |
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"Andrew Dwyer" wrote in message
and license required, and if Tony cared to research both the legislative requirements and our operations before making public accusations, he wouldnt make such an ass of himself. Thanks again Bob, good on you! Exactly what financial protection do you offer to people prior to travel who pay upfront? -- Tony Bailey Mercury Travel Books |
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