On Thomas Cook's Six Contributions

1, the father of modern tourism, discovered people's needs and developed tourism.

2. The pioneer of tourism is that it conforms to the market, caters to the demand and innovates tourism. This is the standard of tourism development.

3. Develop tourism-related industries and promote the development of service industry with tourism as the core.

There is no doubt that he has changed people's lives and met people's needs.

He created the tacit understanding of group travel, developed the basic mode of travel agency operation and developed package tour.

He promoted the transformation of industry (from industry and agriculture to service industry), and he also opened up new markets to satisfy the desire of consumption.

Thomas Cook (1808165438+1October 22-1August 89218) is the founder of modern tourism and the "father of modern tourism". The first person to travel in a group also organized the world's first global tour group.

Compiled and published the world's first group tourist guide "Liverpool Guide", and creatively launched the earliest voucher with the embryonic form of traveler's checks.

Extended data:

Tourism has a long history. However, tourism, as the formation of a social industry, only appeared in modern times. In history, tourism and sightseeing activities have always been individual consumption activities with individuals as the unit, but for the first time in the world, it appeared in the form of an organization and was directly linked to the transportation industry, and the person who started tourism was Thomas Cook of Britain.

On July 5th, 184 1, he organized 570 people to attend the prohibition meeting by chartered car. Although this group trip is a non-commercial "amateur activity", it is open to the public, which increases Cook's interest and confidence in organizing tourism activities and lays the foundation and provides experience for him to set up a travel agency in the future.

After years of preparation, he officially founded the world's first travel agency-Thomas Cook Travel Agency (now Thomas Cook Group, China officially authorized brand name "Tome Kuke") on 1845, which became the beginning of travel agency business.

After the establishment of the travel agency, on August 4th 1845, a leisure and sightseeing tour group was organized for the first time, that is, a trip from Leicester to Liverpool, with 350 participants. Cook himself made a careful plan for this group trip, personally inspected the tourist routes in advance, determined the tourist attractions along the way, and agreed with the innkeepers around the country on the accommodation and other matters of passengers.

After I came back, I compiled and published the Liverpool Travel Handbook, which was distributed to tourists and became an early travel guide. 1846, he organized another 350 people to travel to Scotland under the guidance of a tour guide. Wherever the tour group went, it was warmly welcomed. Since then, the name of Thomas Cook Travel Agency has become very famous in the British Isles.

185 1 year, he organized 165000 people to visit the first World Expo held at the Crystal Palace in London. Four years later, the World Expo was held in Paris, France, and he organized more than 500,000 people to visit it, which made the tourism industry break the national boundaries and go to the world for the first time. By 1864, he had established Thomas Cook & Sons Company, started the tourism industry in an all-round way, and made a series of preparations for going global.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Thomas Cook