§ 523. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Travel services"
means public transportation, public accommodations in hotels, motels or
motor courts, rental of motor vehicles or any other service related to
travel.

2. "Provider of travel services" means every person, firm or
corporation engaged in the business of furnishing travel, transportation
or vacation services.

2-a. "Travel agent" shall mean any person, firm, corporation,
partnership or association, other than a common carrier or employee of a
common carrier, that is an officially appointed agent of a common
carrier and meets standards no less than those required on January
first, nineteen hundred ninety, for authorized agents of the airline
reporting corporation, or is a registered member of the Cruise Lines
International Association and who operates exclusively as an agent for
cruise lines in the sale of cruise travel products or services, and who,
as a legal agent of a supplier, sells or offers for sale any travel,
transportation or vacation arrangements, or who negotiates for or holds
himself or herself out by solicitation, advertisement or otherwise as
one who sells, provides, furnishes contracts or arranges for such
travel, transportation or vacation services.

3. "Consumer" means a natural person.

4. "Credit card" and "issuer" shall have the same meanings as in
article twenty-nine-A of this chapter.