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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.
Peter Pan’s Adventure Travel Pty Ltd (Peter Pan’s) is a retail travel agency that provides travel services to backpacker and budget travellers.
Between at least 25 May 2009 and 31 August 2009, Peter Pan’s caused advertisements for tour packages to be published in various backpacker magazines, on its website and on promotional flyers and signs that did not correctly reflect the full total price of the packages or properly state a single (total) price for the packages.
Peter Pan’s acknowledges that the publication, distribution and display of certain promotional material breached sections 52 and 53(e) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (the Act) because:
the material failed to adequately disclose or make clear to consumers that costs were payable in addition to the advertised price; and
some flyers falsely advertised “Free” offers , when customers were required to pay additional costs to take up the offers.