Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Thomas Cook get some facts and history with our free resources



Shocking news about the failure of renowned travel firm Thomas Cook.

The Civil Aviation Authority has set up a site on the administration

The home page of Thomas Cook has been taken down but archived versions including company news and history can be viewed via the Internet archive.
Statista has a clear infographic to the fall in share price of the company from 2010-2018

Thomas Cook history

Interestingly it is tied with temperance as the first tour in 1841 was chartering a train to take a group of temperance campaigners 11 miles from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough, It became a nationalised company in 1948 along with the railways becoming part of the British Transport Commission. not being de-nationalised until 1972. It began promoting foreign holidays (particularly Italy, Spain and Switzerland) in the early 1950s

Historic clippings about Thomas Cook from the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Examples of historic guide books produced by the Company in the 19th and 20th centuries via Haithi Trust. they include the full text of a guide for the traveller to Venice in the 1870s.


 Foreign Travel- who travels abroad? 

According to Statista most Europeans dont holiday abroad
it includes annual datasets which show a general decline in foreign travel.
Snapshots of international tourism trends can be obtained from the WTO website










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