When was the first travel agency established in the world?

Thomas Cook is a British Baptist minister and an active temperance worker. He believes that alcoholism is the root of social ills in Victorian England.

So on July 5th, 184 1, Thomas Cook chartered a train and sent 570 teetotalers from Leicester in the middle of England to Labafleur to attend the prohibition meeting.

Round trip 12 mile, each participant charges 1 shilling (equivalent to 3 pounds today). Lunch and snacks are provided free of charge, and a band sings hymns.

This activity was a great success and was considered as the first commercial tourism activity in the world. In the same year, Thomas Cook founded the world's first travel agency-Thomas Cook Travel Agency, which marked the birth of modern tourism. In the next few decades, the company expanded its business in hotels, resorts, cruise ships and airlines for Britain's growing middle class.

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Thomas Cook is known as "the first travel agency in the world", and its founder Thomas Cook was born as a cabinet manufacturer. He founded this company at 184 1 and is the originator of British tourism.

In its history of 178, Thomas Cook has developed from a British domestic tourism service provider to a global tourism group with annual sales of 9 billion pounds, and has190,000 customers and 22,000 employees in 16 countries.

It is the most famous holiday brand in the world and has served millions of people. Emma Koster, a travel critic, said that the British "grew up with Thomas Cook".

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