| Advance payments of hotel reservationsa) The hotel | | | | the due sums will be increased with an interest fixed to |
| owner will be able to subordinate the acceptance of | | | | the percentages for every month of delay. |
| the order of hotel booking, to the imposition of an | | | | The opening amount of the debit will be increased with |
| advance amount (guarantee or cause deposit). | | | | the 5% for recovery expenses.c) For long duration |
| This advance amount will always have the character | | | | lodgings, the hotel one will be able to request the travel |
| of guarantee deposit, except for the case in which the | | | | agent, to pay in the course of lodging, the parts of |
| hotel owner has specified that it's a guarantee. | | | | services already given.d) In the event of hotel booking |
| If the hotel owner has requested an advance | | | | made by the travel agent for services whose |
| payment, the conclusion of the hotel contract won't be | | | | payment will be executed directly by the client, the |
| definitive until the imposition of the amount is not made | | | | hotel owner agrees to guarantee the agent's |
| or demonstrated the evidence of the payment.b) The | | | | commission. |
| hotel owner will make acknowledgement of receipt of | | | | For such reason the hotel owner can refuse to accept |
| the advance payment of the hotel booking no later | | | | the payment by means of a credit card. |
| than 24 hours after receiving it.c) the amount o be paid | | | | Glossary of terms used in hotels booking |
| of the advance payment of hotel reservations is | | | | - Travel Agent: Each person or qualified society |
| usually the price of the ordered services (room, foods, | | | | according to legal dispositions of the same country or |
| etc.) for a one-night lodging in low season and three | | | | for the national associations or for the interested |
| nights in high season. | | | | International Federation and which particularly has as |
| Documents of the hotel booking | | | | an specific activity to make the hotel reservation of |
| 1) Principle of voucher acceptance: The hotel owner is | | | | rooms and other services in hotels to settle travelers. |
| entitled to either request the prepayment or a partial | | | | - Hotel: Are considered all those facilities that offer |
| advance payment. | | | | vacancies and are affiliated to the AIH, either directly |
| If he refuses to such power, he agrees to accept the | | | | through a national Association and those that classify |
| voucher. | | | | according to the legal orders of the country where |
| The travel agent recognizes the voucher as a | | | | they are located. |
| payment guarantee that must be paid according to | | | | - Advance: according to the will of the parts, the |
| conventional norms and terms. | | | | amount of the advance payment requested by the |
| 2) The simple voucher. | | | | hotel can be worth as guarantee deposit to the act of |
| The benefits that should appear in detail, especially the | | | | hotels booking. |
| arrival and departure dates, they can comprise only | | | | - Low season: defined according to local customs, |
| the normal services (room and foods). | | | | subject to particular contracts according to the |
| 3) Voucher "full credit". | | | | conditions of the local market. |
| The emission of this voucher can convey an extension | | | | - Hotel contract: Contract with which a hotel agrees |
| of the normal hotel services, should be subordinated to | | | | with a travel agent to give hotel services - followed by |
| a specific agreement between the hotel owner and | | | | a hotel reservation - to a costumer of the |
| the travel agent. | | | | aforementioned agent. |
| Payment due to the hotel owner | | | | - Guarantee deposit: advance imposition of the travel |
| The prices fixed by the hotel owner to the travel | | | | agent to the hotel owner, at the moment of the hotel |
| agent for the services making object of the hotel | | | | reservation, a part of the price that will be presumed |
| contract, will not be, in any case, higher to those of the | | | | from the total amount of the invoice or should be |
| hotel rate applied to direct clients, when the invoice is | | | | refunded in the event of the hotels booking. |
| paid by the agent or liquidated directly by the traveler. | | | | - Hotel tariffs: lists of the prices on the different |
| When the hotel owner has agreed the special prices in | | | | services given by the hotel, separately or together, |
| the phases of the hotel reservations, he won't be able | | | | officially published for travelers' use. |
| to demand greater retribution than the agreed rate. | | | | - Individual travelers: clients who are not benefited by |
| The hotel owner agrees to respect the prices suited in | | | | special rates of group. |
| the contract. | | | | - Group Travelers: amount of people traveling together, |
| In the event of any modification of prices, a 30-day | | | | considered by the travel agent and the hotel owner as |
| adjustment term is foreseen for the application of new | | | | an unique entity which obtains from the hotel owner |
| prices. | | | | during the hotel reservation, special conditions and |
| This price modification won't be applied to the hotel | | | | rates fixed contractually. |
| reservations already confirmed. | | | | - Voucher: a voucher is a document issued by a travel |
| The benefits the travel agent will pay are those that | | | | agent with which he agrees to pay the hotel owner |
| appear in the reservation document directed to the | | | | for the benefits to the agency's costumer. |
| hotel owner.a) Except in case it's been agreed that the | | | | These benefits or their top value will be mentioned in |
| invoice be paid directly by the traveler, is the travel | | | | the voucher. |
| agent who has concluded the hotel contract the one | | | | In the event of non-use of all the hotel benefits |
| who should debit the invoice.b) The payment of the | | | | mentioned in the voucher, the agent's agreement is |
| invoice will be made by the agreed terms or, in | | | | limited according to the conditions mentioned in item 42 |
| absence of a contractual stipulation, within a 30-day | | | | of the convention. |
| frame after receiving the invoice. After the 30 days, | | | | The copy of a voucher can also work as confirmation. |