Thomson/TUI – Packaging dreams

The history of Thomson Holidays 1

begin

in 1965, when the entrepreneur Lord Thomson

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 buy  three travel companies – Britannia

Airways, Riviera Holidays and Skytours. It was the

right time to invest in tourism. Over the previous

decade, demand for holidays in the sun had risen

steadily and the package holiday industry

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 booms . Lord Thomson continued to develop

the concept and 4

 introducete winter sun and

cruise package holidays to the UK mass market.

In 1972, the three travel companies were merged

into one company – the Thomson Travel Group –

and the brand name ‘Thomson Holidays’

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 create . The Thomson Travel Group

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launcher on the London Stock Exchange in

1998 with a valuation of £1.7 billion. The group

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 acquirece  by a German corporation in 2000

and renamed TUI AG. Thomson Holidays then

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 become  part of TUI UK.

Despite intense competition, TUI UK’s market share

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 growes  and the company has continued to

be successful. Recently, the group 10  launcerh  

a new graduate training development programme,

which is considered to be one of the best in the

industry. Thomson 11 still  package

dreams for the mass market at the beginning of the

21 st century and if you 12  look  for a career in

tourism, it could be a good place to start.