{"id":147368,"date":"2024-08-16T11:23:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T09:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/luxus-magazine-thomas-cook-the-pioneer-of-tourist-travel\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T11:25:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T09:25:34","slug":"luxus-magazine-thomas-cook-the-pioneer-of-tourist-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/luxus-magazine-thomas-cook-the-pioneer-of-tourist-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"[Luxus Magazine] Thomas Cook, the pioneer of tourist travel"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of the Victorian era, a visionary man invented an industry built around discovery, adventure, the mixing of cultures and, above all, dreams. Thomas Cook is regarded as the world\u2019s first tour operator, orchestrating a group holiday as early as 1841. Portrait.<\/h4>\n

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Nothing could have foreshadowed such a destiny.<\/strong>\u00a0Born in Melbourne in the United Kingdom in 1808, little Thomas Cook began working in a market at the age of 10, before working in a cabinetmaker\u2019s workshop until he was in his twenties while helping his mother in her shop. In 1841, at the age of 33 and a former evangelist missionary,\u00a0he organised his very first trip from Leicester to Loughborough<\/strong>, a distance of around 20 kilometres, on the occasion of an anti-alcohol conference. Alcohol was a veritable scourge in the United Kingdom at the time. Thomas Cook managed to persuade the Midland Railway to charter a train for the event, asking the 570 people to pay for a ticket that included the journey and a meal. Without any experience, without even really knowing it,\u00a0Thomas Cook had orchestrated the very first group trip and launched an unprecedented tourist empire.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Wikip\u00e9dia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u00a9 DR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Building on this success,\u00a0he planned an excursion to Liverpool for 1,200 customers in 1845<\/strong>. They were entitled to several stops in Wales, to visit the region\u2019s castles and mountains. As an added bonus, Thomas Cook published a travel brochure with important directions and itinerary information. It\u2019s a first!<\/p>\n

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In the same spirit, the entrepreneur launched the first travel magazine,\u00a0The Excursionist, in 1851<\/strong>. Four years later, a hotel was even built under his aegis in Leicester.<\/p>\n

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Click here to read the full article on Luxus Magazine.<\/p>\n

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Featured photo : \u00a9 DR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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