Thomas Cook was born in 1808 in central England. His first job as a gardener, then became a carpenter. In 1841 he opened a new business. He organized trips for 570 people to attend a meeting of the all alcohol on a boat hired from Leicester to Longborough form of a guided tour. The distance is 35 km distance. He signed separate contracts with one private railway company to rental costs are half the regular fare. Many inventors were now "Cook" invent in that trip, from fare Group flights and packages to subscribers. in 1845, he opened the first travel agencies in Leicester. This enterprise has been regarded as h • ng first tour in the modern sense. Cook Recipes business travel is cheaper will drive people away from cheap taverns. In the early days, he held a series of trips to interesting destinations in the UK and Scotland. He wrote travel guidebooks for visitors and signing the package deal service visit to the historic castle. In 1850 he published "excursionist". It is a combination of articles about the trip and the elements of 1 catologue (checklist) won for its customers. in 1851, he organized trips for 165,000 visitors to the World Fair in London. On the occasion that he was promoting the idea of saving money for the purpose of travel and rest. He organized tours to mainland Europe, the cultural tours for young people, the tours beach to the seaside village of England and combine different services catering for trips to London and the villages, interesting cities of Britain. Next is organizing trips to tourist attractions on the continent as Switzerland (since 1862, many people have said travel organized by Cook is one of the reasons that promote the development of tourism quick history in this country), Italy and almost to all the capitals of Europe, mainly to Paris. He organized package tours for more than 2,000 people to attend the World Fair in Paris once First. In 1865, he left London and shortly after he had arranged for her son John Mason Cook to do in your business. Since then his travel agency named "Th.Cook & Son." John Mason Cook had even become one more talented trader. Most evidence is a list of destinations after the merge: in 1869, the first tour was organized to tourist sites in Palestine (Holi Grave) and Egypt (Cai Cairo, Pyramids, sailing on the Nile, King Valley, Luxor, ...) and then travel to the Middle East (he hired Aboriginal camel to facilitate travel easier for visitors leaving the ship to tourist attractions), as well as to the African countries and the United States. In 1872, "Cook" was held the first tour around the world (the result is brought great fame to the book of Jules Verne "80 Days Around the World". When Thomas Cook lost in 1892, his business has branch offices in almost all major cities of Europe, North America, Near East, South and Southeast Asia, and Australia. Thomas Cook is the man who invented: - Airfares Group - Tour Package (package) - Saving money for tourism purposes - Published book "excursionist" - International rail tickets - "Circular Notes" (similar to the first letter of credit) - "Hotel Coupon" (first hotel invoices) 1927 Business "Cook" was held first charter flights (charter flight) first guests from New York to Chicago to attend the match between Dempsey and Tunney loading. In the period after World War II, this enterprise faces many obstacles, but now, "Thomas Cook" today is almost a travel agency operation all over the world (but mainly in Britain and the Commonwealth). It is the owner or engage in many other businesses. It also has operations in the banking sector and in the insurance company. This firm had organized the trip for the pope, kings and nobles characters as well as transportation of objects costly and risky, organized for adventure travel to wallow in the spring on the Nile, on his elephant hunting tigers in India, walking tours and trekking in the Himalayas, ... Soon sentence famous "one small step for me but a big step for mankind" appeared in 1969, around 30 selected tour was organized for the first expeditions to the moon. John Mason once said " with Thomas Cook and Son, no one else in the world where you can not go ", then" follow in the footsteps of men from Cook "today's" Cook for you, "and they do. In the fall of 1992, German group "LTU" (Luft Transport Unternehmen) is a consortium of most of the businesses involved in tourism activities have purchased the company "Thomas Cook" with all 1600 offices in 120 countries and 10,400 employees . Although no business today, "Thomas Cook" independent but active history tour business worldwide ever recorded Thomas Cook was the first to lay the foundation for business travel activities currently
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