Greentree Corporation Pty Ltd trading as Adventure Travel Bugs

Green Tree Corporation Pty Ltd trading as Adventure Travel Bugs is a retail travel agency that provides travel services to backpacker and budget travellers.

Between 25 May 2009 and 31 August 2009, Adventure Travel Bugs caused advertisements for tour packages to be published in TNT Down Under magazines.

These advertisements specified the single (total) price for the package to be $448, but the single (total) price was smaller and less prominent than the component price of $299.

Adventure Travel Bugs acknowledges that it breached section 53C of the Act by failing to properly specify the single (total) price in a way that was at least as prominent as the most prominent component price advertised.

Adventure Travel Bugs has ceased the conduct of concern and has offered the ACCC an undertaking under section 87B of the Act that it will:

• will ensure that all advertising and promotional material complies with the Act, in particular section 53C, for three years
• publish various corrective notices in backpacker magazines, in stores and on its website; and
• implement a trade practices compliance program.