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Who was Thomas Cook?
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A baptist lay preacher from britain.
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What was he famous for?
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Thomas Cook started organising the first leisure trips and basically introduced travel to Britain.
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In what year did he get his idea?
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The summer of 1841 as he walked from his home in Market Harborough to Leicester for a temperance meeting
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What was his idea?
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To organise a successful one-day rail excursion.
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Where did the passengers travel to and from on the first Thomas cook trip?
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From Leicester to Loughborough.
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How many people could travel on the first Thomas Cook trip?
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500 people.
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How did they travel on the first Thomas Cook trip?
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Open railway carriages.
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How expensive was the first Thomas Cook trip?
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A shilling a head.
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Was the trip successful?
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The trip was such a success that soon Cook's Excursions was whizzing people all over the Midlands to temperance meetings.
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Where did Cook's Tours expand to in 1851?
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Cook organised trips to the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London in 1851.
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How many people travelled after expandind to the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London?
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Between June and October more than 150,000 people from the Midlands and Yorkshire jumped on a Cook's Excursion to the capital.
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What did Cook realise after expanding to the Crystal Palace in London?
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That he could make alot of money by organising tours and trips.
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What did Cook offer in 1855?
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Thomas Cook became Britain's first tour operator to offer package trips abroad in 1855.
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When did Cook see an opportunity to expand to Europe?
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The year of the Paris Exhibition.
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What was the only route he was able to use in the end after talking to the companies commanding the Channel traffic?
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The route from Harwich to Antwerp.
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What opportunity did this route open?
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This opened up the way for a grand circular tour to include Brussels, the Field of Waterloo, Cologne, the Rhine, Heidelberg, Baden-Baden, Strasbourg and Paris.
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What did tourists get a choice of for this circular tour?
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Tourists had a choice of fares and routes.
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Where would the fares and routes be listed?
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the Excursionist, the firm's monthly newspaper.
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What was included in some of the top packages?
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Thomas offered to provide bed, breakfast and dinner in first-class hotels.
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What happened in 1863?
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Thomas organised further trips to the Continent in 1863, and by the end of the season had taken nearly 2,000 tourists to Paris, some 500 of whom had continued to Switzerland.
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What trip did Thomas make in 1865?
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Building on success in Europe, Thomas made an exploratory trip to North America in 1865 and set up a system of tours covering 4,000 miles of railways.
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When was the climax of his career?
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September 1872 when, at the age of 63, he departed from Leicester on a tour of the world that would last eight months.
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Who did Thomas hand the business over to?
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At the end of the century Thomas handed the business over to his son, John Mason Cook.
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Who took over the business after John's death?
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John's three sons and they sold it to Belgian firm Wagons Lits, which owned the famous Orient Express, in 1929.
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What is Thomas Cook Tours like today?
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The second largest European travel group. It now has 33 tour operating brands, 2,400 travel agencies, 66 aircraft and employs 19,775 full time staff.
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