A word of advice
We want to explain to you, as our client, exactly what your AmeriCan Adventures holiday booking means. A legal contract will be created when you sign your booking form and you should know exactly what responsibilities you are undertaking towards AmeriCan Adventures and your tour/trek. Similarly, you should be aware of our legal responsibilities to you as your tour operator. Simply put...once confirmed, our basic responsibility is to provide you with the holiday you have selected within the limits of the conditions below. Your basic responsibility is to pay in full and accept the conditions as stated.

Booking Conditions
Heritage Group Ltd. is responsible for the marketing and booking of the tours described in this brochure. An associated company, Premiere International Corp., being a company registered in the United States and there trading as AmeriCan Adventures at 2533 N. Carson Street, Suite 654, Carson City, Nevada, is responsible for and operates the tours in North America. Reference to the 'Company' in these conditions means Heritage Group Ltd. and/or AmeriCan Adventures as required by the context. Bookings are accepted subject to the following conditions:

1. The full trek deposit or reservation fee must be paid, but the acceptance of same does not imply acceptance of the booking. The Company shall not be liable for any loss or damage incurred by the client as the result of non-acceptance of a booking. Upon acceptance the deposit shall be accepted as part payment of the total price, and the balance of the fare shall become due 42 days prior to departure. Deposits are not refundable in the event of cancellation by the client. If the client has not paid the final balance by the due date, the Company reserves the right to regard the booking as cancelled. Cancellation charges will, at the Company's discretion, be levied as follows:

If a passenger fails to join a tour, or joins it after departure, or leaves it prior to completion, no refund can be made. All cancellations must be made in writing, and shall be effective only on the date on which the Company receives the notice of cancellation. The Company will charge a fee of UK Pds15/US$20 should a client transfer the booking more than 42 days before departure from one tour to another in the Company's brochure. If a client transfers the booking less than 42 days before departure of the original tour booked, the booking will be regarded as cancelled, and cancellation charges will be levied unless the transfer is to an earlier departure date, in which case only the transfer fee will be charged. A client may only transfer a booking to a departure date in the current season, and may not transfer a booking to future seasons. Any such transfers will be regarded as cancellations.

2. All travel arrangements, such as flight bookings, made by the Company are subject to the booking conditions and cancellation revisions of the travel organiser or airline concerned

3. The Company reserves the right to alter routes, timetables and itineraries for any reason it considers desirable, and will inform clients of any known changes before departure. If any such change is not acceptable, clients may cancel and receive full refund. The Company reserves the right to withdraw any trek up to 42 days before the departure; and in this event all monies received by the Company, less the cost of any services already provided, will be refunded. Other than the refund the Company shall have no liability to the client.

4. If in the opinion of the Company the fulfilment of any trek is considered impossible, illegal or, in the Company's opinion, inadvisable because of weather conditions, avalanches, strikes, war, government interference or any other cause not arising from the Company's negligence, the Company may at any time cancel such trek or what remains of it, or make any alterations in route, accommodation, price or other aspects thereof that it thinks fit; and any losses or expenses resulting from such cancellation or alteration shall be borne by the client.

5. The Company, without giving a reason, shall be entitled, but shall not be obliged, to substitute another vehicle for the vehicle described in the brochure hereto, or to change the number of persons carried in any vehicle.

6. All tickets and vouchers are issued and all travel and accommodation arrangements are made by the Company as agents only, and the Company shall not be liable for any damage, loss, delay or inconvenience which may be occasioned either by reason of any defect in any vehicle or building or through the acts or defaults, whether negligent or otherwise, of any company, firm or person engaged in providing transport, refreshment, accommodation or other facilities or services in connection with the tour or otherwise in relation thereto, nor of any servant of such company, firm or person. Nor shall the Company be liable for any damage, losses or expenses suffered by the client as the result of sickness, quarantine, weather conditions, war, strikes, riots or any other cause outside the Company's control. Further, the Company shall not be deemed to be the agent of the client.

7. The Company accepts no liability in respect of death or injury, nor for loss or damage to goods, other than liability which may be imposed upon it in terms of English law. To the extent that liability may devolve upon it, the Company's liability shall be limited to the amount paid for the tour by the claimant.

8. It is a condition of travel that all clients are insured against sickness, loss of baggage and cancellation or curtailment of the trek. Having regard to this, the Company shall not be liable for any loss or expense arising from the loss of baggage, cancellation or curtailment of the trek. In the event of sickness or accident interrupting the trek, the Company shall not be liable for any cost or expense arising therefrom. In all other cases assistance may be given by the Company and shall be at the Company's discretion. The Company shall not be liable for any refund, either total or partial, of passage money paid.

9. Clients must inform the Company of any pre-existing medical condition(s) they may suffer from.

10. Clients' luggage is carried on a tarpaulin-covered roof rack. Weather, loading and unloading can cause greater than usual wear and tear to luggage, and clients should only bring luggage and personal possessions capable of standing up to heavy treatment.

11. Clients are reminded that they are solely responsible for complying with formalities required by police, customs or health authorities at the point of departure, at the destination or while in transit. The Company will endeavour to provide clients prior to departure with the latest information concerning such regulations or restrictions, but cannot accept liability for any inaccuracies or omissions contained therein.

12. Passengers are not allowed to carry any unlawful drugs on the Company's treks, and should any such drugs be found on any clients, or in their luggage, they will be immediately excluded from the trek and liable for their own repatriation and all costs thereof. Under no circumstance will the Company accept any responsibility or liability for loss, imprisonment, expenses or other costs arising from such exclusion, nor will monies paid to the Company be subject to refund.

13. The Company reserves the right to refuse carriage to any person at any time prior to or during the trek if, in the Company's opinion, the applicant or trek member is not compatible with the general enjoyment and well-being of other members of the trek. The final decisions on itinerary, accommodation and conduct on the trek will be taken by the trek leader appointed by the Company.

14. Clients will accept the authority and decision of the trek leaders appointed by the Company.

15. The person making the booking warrants that he/she has authority to make it on behalf of all other persons included in the bookings, so as to make such other persons parties thereto and to bind them to the terms of these conditions.

16. Should a client have a complaint against the Company, he/she should inform the trek leader during the tour. If satisfaction is not received, the client should contact the operations office of the Company by telephone. If these steps do not resolve the client's complaint, the complaint must be made in writing to the Company's head office, to be received within 28 days of the completion of the tour. The Company will not accept any liability of claims received after this period.

17. The Company reserves the right to use any photograph or film taken during the trek by the appointed representative of the Company, for use exclusively in the Company's advertising or publicity material, without obtaining further consent from the client, unless the Company receives the written refusal of the client, together with the client's booking, prior to departure of the client's appointed trek.

18. The information contained in the Company's brochure and price insert is correct to the best of the Company's belief, but the Company's accepts no liability for any innocent inaccuracies contained herein.

19. The prices contained in the Company's brochure are correct at the time of publication (5th July, 2001) but are subject to alteration due to foreign exchange fluctuations and other unforeseen occurrences. The Company reserves the right to alter the price of any Trek or to impose a surcharge to take account of any increase in its cost, and acceptance of the booking by the Company is conditional upon the client undertaking to pay the Company any such surcharge. If such surcharge results in an increase of 10% or more of the trek cost, the client may cancel the booking without penalty within seven days of notification of the surcharge being issued by the Company, by giving notice thereof in writing and may obtain a refund of all monies paid. No surcharge will be imposed less than 30 days before trek departure.

20. Bookings cannot be accepted from persons under the age of eighteen years at the date of the departure unless prior written consent is granted by the Company to the applicant for inclusion in the tour. The Company reserves the right to refuse an application made by a minor without the written consent of a parent or legal guardian having first been obtained, and the Company further reserves the right to refuse bookings from minors solely on account of their age.

21. The entire contract between the Company and the client is contained in these conditions and the booking form, and no representation, term, warranty or condition expressed or implied shall be deemed to be or have been made or agreed or implied by reference to any other writing, advertisement or conversation. These booking conditions can only be varied with the written permission of the Company, signed by a director of the Company.

22. Any dispute arising in connection with the client's contract with the company, where the client and the Company cannot agree, may be referred to an arbitrator appointed by the Institute of Arbitrators under their scheme for the travel industry. This scheme provides for a simple and inexpensive method of arbitration on documents alone, with restricted liability on the client in respect of costs. However the scheme does not apply to claims for an amount greater than UK Pds 1,500 per person or UK Pds 7,500 per booking form or to claims which are solely or mainly in respect of physical injury or illness or the consequences of such injury or illness. Details of the scheme will be supplied on request.

23. All disputes shall be dealt with according to English law and be subject to the jurisdiction of the appropriate English court unless the Company agrees otherwise in writing. Premiere International Corp./(dba) AmeriCan Adventures is operating under a variety of special use permits from the United States National Park Service and United States National Forest Service.

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