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May 17: On This Day in World History … briefly
Cook's idea to offer excursions came to him while 'walking from Market Harborough to Leicester to attend a meeting of the Temperance Society'.
1861: Thomas Cook changes travelling forever
A party of British workers and their families set off from London for Paris on a new kind of holiday.
Overland travel, the Channel crossing, hotel accommodation and meals all come in one convenient ‘package’ arranged by Thomas Cook of London.
Packaged holidays, offered to groups, were attractive because it was a lot cheaper. Cook would buy the tickets and hotel coupons in bulk and pass all discounts onto his clients, which was clever and changed the way people travelled forever.
Most notable historic snippets or facts extracted from the book ‘On This Day’ first published in 1992 by Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London, as well as additional supplementary information extracted from Wikipedia.
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