The 180-year-old Thomas Cook brand has been relaunched in the UK by its Chinese owners as an online travel agency.
The company, which offers hotel + plane packages to consumers in the UK through the Thomascook.com site, received the ATOL license at the weekend.
Focusing on products in UK’s ‘quaratine-free countries’ Thomascook.com also sells Turkey packages. The OTA offers its customers a return guarantee in case the quarantine rules change.
Airline products on Thomascook.com website are provided by Paxport, hotels through 3 bed banks namely Hotelbeds, Webbeds and Yalago.
The company now employs around 50 staff, many of whom also worked for Thomas Cook before it collapsed, and is led by CEO Alan French, also a former Thomas Cook executive.
In November, the Chinese Fosun Group paid GBP 11 million for the Thomas Cook trademark and its two affiliated hotel brands, Casa Cook and Cook’s Club, including domains, mobile apps and social media accounts.
