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ABTA has existed for over 70 years and is the UK's largest travel association, representing travel agents and tour operators that sell around £32 billion of holidays and other travel arrangements each year. The main functions of ABTA are: Raising standards in the industry and by giving guidance on issues from sustainability to health and safety,
Members of AITO operate in over 170 countries, including the UK, with activities spanning a range of interests including adventure, city breaks, culture, fly drive, luxury, safaris and sports. The AITO also influences policy that affects consumers and travel industry; particularly initiatives related to independent tour operators. [1]
In the 1960s, voluntary organisations such as the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) provided a degree of financial protection for air travellers. In 1970, the Federation of Tour Operators (FTO) (then the Tour Operators Study Group) introduced a bonding scheme whereby their members had to obtain bonds to the value of 5% of their annual turnover.
Jet2holidays Limited [1] is a British package holiday provider and tour operator. It was formed in 2007 as a subsidiary of Dart Group plc (now renamed Jet2 plc), and a sister to Jet2.com, the third-largest scheduled airline in the UK. [2] As of 2023 Jet2holidays is the largest tour operator in the United Kingdom, by ATOL licenses in 2023. [3 ...
Thomas Cook Group plc was a global travel group, headquartered in the United Kingdom and listed on the London Stock Exchange from its formation on 19 June 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG — successor to Thomas Cook & Son — and MyTravel Group [9] until 23 September 2019, when it went into compulsory liquidation.
Cosmos (formerly Cosmos Tours) is a UK independent tour operator providing a range of package holidays to the UK market. The tour operator is connected to the international Globus Travel Group, founded in 1928, which remains family owned with headquarters in Lugano, Switzerland. Under parent company Cosmos Tours Ltd, the tour operator offers ...
MyTravel Group plc was a British, global travel group headquartered in Rochdale, England.It was founded in 1972 as Airtours Group. The group included two in-house airlines, MyTravel Airways UK and MyTravel Airways Scandinavia, and various tour operators around the world.
Between 2011 and 2016, the brand was also used by TCCT Retail Limited, a travel agency run as a joint venture between the Thomas Cook Group, The Co-operative Group, and Central England Co-operative. TCCT Retail was based at Peterborough Business Park at Lynch Wood, Peterborough. It was a member of ABTA and held an ATOL licence.