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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 ]
First Choice Holidays Limited [2] (trading as First Choice) is a British online travel agency and tour operator, headquartered in Luton, England. It is a subsidiary of TUI UK, itself a subsidiary of TUI Group, and its holidays are sold solely online. It also operates own brand hotels.
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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.
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 ]
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.
The International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) is a Miami-based trade association in the United States representing the interests of its member companies and the U.S. travel distribution network (travel agencies). [1] [2] It is an independent department of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). [3]