Facebook Twitter Pinterest The price of Tui shares climbed in anticipation of Thomas Cook’s demise. Photograph: Phil Noble/ReutersLooking even further ahead, to 2021, it boasts that customers will be able to choose from hundreds of hotels, “including Thomas Cook favourites recently added”. The prevailing wisdom in some corners was that the bricks-and-mortar model was an anachronism and that this was at the heart of Thomas Cook’s failure. It’s an outcome that would ensure that, though Thomas Cook has departed, its package holiday soul lives on. But he pointed out that the fall was not solely due to Thomas Cook.

Source: The Guardian December 28, 2019 15:56 UTC