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815 ILCS 420/2

(815 ILCS 420/2) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 1852)

Sec. 2. Definitions.

(a) "Travel promoter" means a person, including a tour operator, who sells,
provides, furnishes, contracts for, arranges or advertises that he or she will
arrange wholesale or retail transportation by air, land, sea or navigable
stream, either separately or in conjunction with other services.  "Travel
promoter" does not include (1) an air carrier; (2) a sea carrier; (3) an
officially appointed agent of an air carrier who is a member in good standing
of the Airline Reporting Corporation; (4) a travel promoter who has in
force $1,000,000 or more of liability insurance coverage for professional
errors and omissions and a surety bond or equivalent surety in the amount of
$100,000 or more for the benefit of consumers in the event of a bankruptcy on
the part of the travel promoter; or (5) a riverboat subject to regulation under
the Illinois Gambling Act.

(b) "Advertise" means to make any representation in the solicitation of
passengers and includes communication with other members of the same
partnership, corporation, joint venture, association, organization, group or
other entity.

(c) "Passenger" means a person on whose behalf money or other
consideration has been given or is to be given to another, including
another member of the same partnership, corporation, joint venture,
association, organization, group or other entity, for travel.

(d) "Ticket or voucher" means a writing or combination of writings which
is itself good and sufficient to obtain
transportation and other services for which the passenger has contracted.

(Source: P.A. 101-31, eff. 6-28-19.)