VACATIONS.COM
North America's Largest Vacation Selling Network
February 9, 2000
Teri Nadler
Vista Vacations International
5653 NW 29th Street
Margate, FL 33063
Dear Teri:
We congratulate you for a year of hard work and dedication! Vacation.com is
proud to include you among our elite group of success-oriented agencies and is
pleased to renew your membership!
Renewing is simple and seamless:
Complete the enclosed APPLICATION in its entirety date and sign.
Issue a check for the MEMBERSHIP FEE as indicated on the enclosed
invoice.
Mail the APPLICATION and the MEMBERSHIP FEE to Vacation.com today. A
return envelope is enclosed for your convenience.
Your agency will continue receiving preferred supplier overrides, plus an
arsenal of exclusive offers including upgrades, ship board credits, extra
discount certificates, select-sailing exclusive offers and group rates. We look
forward to another record-breaking year!
VACATION.COM Member Renewal
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM
Today's date: 2/11/00 Agency Name: Vista Vacations International
Street Address: 5653 NW 29th Street
City: Margate State: Florida Zip Code: 33063
E-mail address: Terie@flinet.com URL Address:
Telephone: 954-975-0898 Fax: 954-975-8447
List any existing Consortium/Co-op/Franchise Affiliations: none
CLIA number: 00526993
Date of CLIA Appointment: 11/1/98 Date of IATA Appoiuntment: Pending
Home Office
No. of Years in Business: 1 No. of Employees: 6
No. of Years at this Location: 1
Annual Volume: $1.2 MIL
Name of Owners who are Full-time employees: Teri Nadler, Jean Hickman,
Alicia Torrealba
Percentage of Business: Retail 100%
Description of Agency: "Mostly Independent home based agents
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An agreement is made by and between Vacation.com, a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of New York, having as principal place of
business in West Islip, New York and the following company thereinafter referred
to as travel agent. Vacation.com is engaged in Travel Industry Marketing and has
developed and continues to use in connection with its business certain
trademarks copyrights proprietary interests service marks and trade names,
including the Vacation.com logo to identify the corporation to the public. The
parties therefore agree as follows:
1) Vacation.com will not accept any dual affiliation with any other Travel
Industry Marketing association: travel consortium or cooperative
franchise affiliation, immediate action will be take to remove your
agency from Vacation.com'c agency membership. Travel agent hereby
agrees to utilize Vacation.com system of Travel Industry Marketing and
recognize Vacation.com as the primary consortium/co-op/franchise
affiliation with all suppliers.
2) Vacation.com hereby grants the travel agent the right to use certain
Vacation.com trademarks owned and used by Vacation.com for as long as a
Member is in good standing. Member upon termination of membership,
shall be required to cease in the use and return of any and and all
Vacation.com identifications, logos, trademarks, materials, information
and lists or facsimile thereof Vacation.com reserves the right to
require as a condition of the continuation of this agreement, that
Member establish or maintain in good standing, appointment in ARC, IATA
or CLIA.
Member agrees that in the event it is also a member of and has override
or residual agreements through another travel sales and marketing
consortium, co-op, association or entity, Vacation.com will be the
marketing affiliation through which overrides will be earned and all
such other former agreements will be thereby superseded.
This agreement supersedes and nullifies and previous Vacation.com
membership agreements.
3) Vacation.com agrees to cooperate with and make available tot he travel
agent, operating and marketing procedures to assist the travel agent in
implementing the Vacatiopn.com system of Travel Industry Marketing.
Vacation.com will provide each member with a specific list of
suppliers. Vacation.com will provide information on procedures and
commissions on a regular basis.
4) Vacation.com shall have the right, upon written notice to travel agent,
to terminate this agreement in the event travel agent shall become
insolvent, file for bankruptcy, commit acts detrimental tot he travel
public or the Vacation.com name and reputation. Vacation.com agrees
that it will use its best efforts, subject to compliance with all
applicable federal state and local laws, to negotiate with various
Preferred Suppliers (hereinafter called "suppliers") of air, land or
sea travel, and other services and products for commissions or
discounts for members of Vacation.com. In return, Member agrees to use
best effort, to promote and sell Vacation.com preferred suppliers. The
names of such suppliers shall be provided to the Member by
Vacation.com, but the Member shall not be
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required to act as agent for any supplier and shall be permitted to
negotiate with any supplier with respect to commissions without regard
to Vacation.com. Vacation.com will make an effort to correct the
condition, but shall not be held liable for default, errors or
omissions on the part of the suppliers to perform according to terms of
or to renew the supplier contract with Vacation.com. Vacation.com will
periodically evaluate Members production with Preferred Suppliers and
reserves the right to terminate agreement due to low productivity.
5) Vacation.com shall prepare a schedule of override commissions and pay
to travel agent a portion of said override commissions. Override
commissions shall be considered as any payments made to Vacation.com or
to the travel agent by suppliers of travel service as a result of the
Vacation.com efforts and their systems of marketing. The travel agent
agrees that Vacation.com may collect override commissions as travel
agent's representative. Inclusion in Preferred Supplier override
commission programs is at the discretion of individual Preferred
Suppliers. Members must be in good standing with Vacation.com to
receive such overrides.
6) It is understood by both parties in the relationship that the travel
agent is an independent contractor who is not authorized to enter into
any contract on behalf of Vacation.com. Neither party shall be
obligated for any act or omission of the other, and each shall hold
harmless and indemnify the other against any and all claims with
respect to the operations of the travel agent and Vacation.com.
7) Membership will be effective on the first day of the following month
upon receipt of fees, affiliation letter and at the sole discretion and
approval of Vacation.com.
8) This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties.
9) This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York.
In witness whereof the parties hereto have signed this agreement the day and
year fiurst written below:
Agency: Vista Vacation International
Name: Teri Nadler, Pres.
Date 2/11/00
VACATION.COM
754 Montauk Highway
West Islip, NY 11795
Date: 2/8/00 Inv #438
Bill To
Teri Nadler
Vista Vacations International
5653 NW 29th Street
Margate, FL 33063
Membership Dues February 2000 to February 2001 $300.00
Encls.
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