{"id":398,"date":"2020-09-16T18:19:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T15:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turizmpress.com\/en\/?p=398"},"modified":"2020-09-16T18:19:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T15:19:34","slug":"thomas-cook-is-back-as-an-online-travel-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turizmpress.com\/en\/technology\/thomas-cook-is-back-as-an-online-travel-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Cook is back as an Online Travel Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 180-year-old Thomas Cook brand has been relaunched in the UK by its Chinese owners as an online travel agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The company, which offers hotel + plane packages to consumers in the UK through the Thomascook.com site, received the ATOL license at the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Focusing on products in UK&#8217;s &#8216;quaratine-free countries&#8217; Thomascook.com also sells Turkey packages. 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