“Everything is organised, everything is catered for, one does not have to bother oneself with anything at all, neither timings, nor luggage nor hotels”
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Thomas Cook
Thomas Cook was the founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was born into a poor family in Derbyshire and left school at the age of ten to start work as a gardener's boy. He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker before becoming an itinerant Baptist preacher. He was a supporter of the temperance movement and his first foray into tourism was a railway excursion to Loughborough for m…
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business · English businessman (1808–1892) · entrepreneur · also Thomas Cook, Cook
Born 22 November 1808 · Died 18 July 1892 · Q328725
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2026· 3 entries
Business Standard: Thomas Cook and SOTC launch curated ocean and expedition voyages
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Travel Daily Media: Thomas Cook India and SOTC offer free UAE visas
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1898· 1 entry
“Genius is three per cent. inspiration and ninety-seven per cent. perspiration”
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1892· 1 entry
Died 1892-07-18.
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1880· 1 entry
And of his wife in 1884 and by increasing loss of sight
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1878· 1 entry
Returned to Leicester and took an interest in the Baptist church and charitable work until his death
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1874· 2 entries
And the same year advertised an annual conducted trip for 200 guineas
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And enabled tourists to obtain local currency
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1872· 2 entries
Formed a partnership with his son, John Mason Andrew Cook, and renamed the travel agency as Thomas Cook & Son
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Went into business with his son as Thomas Cook & Son, with a head office in London
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1868· 1 entry
The company introduced "hotel coupons" which were issued to travellers and could be exchanged for restaurant meals and hotel accommodation
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1865· 1 entry
Cook acquired business premises on Fleet Street in London
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1862· 1 entry
Scottish railway companies stopped issuing cheap group tickets for tour groups and Cook turned his attention further afield, to Switzerland and Italy, the United States, Egypt and the Holy Land
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1855· 1 entry
"a grand circular tour of the Continent", visiting major cities in Belgium, Germany and France and enabling tourists to visit the Paris Exhibition
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1851· 1 entry
Arranged for 165,000 people to travel to the Great Exhibition in London
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1845· 1 entry
Organised his first profit-making excursion, taking a party to Liverpool, Caernarfon and Mount Snowdon
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1836· 1 entry
Both he and Marianne signed the pledge and Cook became active in campaigning for abstention from alcohol
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1829· 1 entry
Met Marianne Mason, a farmer's daughter and Sunday School teacher from Barrowden in Rutland
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1828· 1 entry
Left an apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker to become an itinerant Baptist preacher, distributing tracts and setting up Sunday Schools in villages in the South Midlands for an annual salary of £36
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1808· 1 entry
Born 1808-11-22.
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