Travel Agents Registration Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Travel Agents Registration Act - Requires, beginning January 1, 1972, all persons conducting travel agencies to obtain a registration certificate from the Bureau of Travel Agents Registration, created by this Act in the Department of Transportation. Establishes an eight-member Travel Agents Registration Board to advise the Director of The Bureau on applications for registration certificates which present special problems, and approve regulations establishing qualifications for obtaining registration certificates and a code of ethics for travel agencies, both to be promulgated by the Director. Provides that the Director shall issue and deliver a registration certificate to the applicant after certain determinations are made by the Director with the advice of the Board. Provides that a registratioshyyyyyyyyyyy shall not be issued to any person who has been convicted in any State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or possession of the United States, of a felony or a crime concerning activities prohibited by this Act. Requires the granting of a certificate by the Director if the applicant was conducting a travel agency on September 2, 1968, has been doing so fo…