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Thomson Travel Group plc was a business formed by the Thomson Corporation of Canada, when it was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1998. It was acquired by Preussag AG, an industrial and transport conglomerate, in 2000. The group continued until 2002 when it was renamed TUI Northern Europe Limited, a full subsidiary of TUI AG.
TUI announced a merger of its travel division with the British tour operator First Choice in March 2007, [10] which was approved by the European Commission on 4 June 2007, on the condition that the merged company sell Budget Travel in Ireland. [11] TUI held a 55% stake in the new company, TUI Travel PLC, which began operations in September 2007 ...
TUI Travel PLC was a British leisure travel group headquartered in Crawley, West Sussex. The company was formed on 3 September 2007 by the merger of First Choice Holidays PLC and the Tourism Division of TUI AG , which owned 56.4% of it. [ 2 ]
TUI Airways has its origins in several rival airlines. Euravia (later renamed Britannia Airways in December 1964 [6]) was founded in January 1962. [7] Orion Airways, founded in 1979 by Horizon Holidays and later owned by the large brewing firm Bass Brewery and InterContinental Hotels Group, was sold and merged with Britannia Airways in 1989 but retained the Britannia name.
Sabre Global Distribution System, owned by Sabre Corporation, [1] is a travel reservation system used by travel agents and companies to search, price, book, and ticket travel services provided by airlines, hotels, car rental companies, rail providers and tour operators.
A fare basis code (often just referred to as a fare basis) is an alphabetic or alpha-numeric code used by airlines to identify a fare type and allow airline staff and travel agents to find the rules applicable to that fare. Although airlines now set their own fare basis codes, there are some patterns that have evolved over the years and may ...
By the end of the 1980s, Lunn Poly had over 500 shops, and by the mid-1990s it was the largest travel agency in the UK. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] In 1995 it entered the holiday voucher market, valued at £400million to compete with Thomas Cook . [ 8 ]
Allamanda Voyages travel agency in Paris Travel agency in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Travel agency in Taiwan. A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides travel and tourism-related services to the general public on behalf of accommodation or travel suppliers to offer different kinds of travelling packages for each destination.