The origin and background of travel agencies

The founder of the travel agency is Thomas Cook, an Englishman. 1841July 15, he organized a tour group of 500 people, starting from Les, to attend the general meeting held by the Quit Smoking Association in Lauver. The trip was greatly assisted by the railway department, and the British Midlands Railway Company specially opened a special train for this trip.

From 1844, Cook signed a long-term contract with the Central County Railway Company to organize weekend group trips. The next year, he accompanied a tour group and traveled all over Europe. From 65438 to 0892, after Thomas Cook's death, his son Mei Sen inherited his father's business, set up travel agencies all over the world and established a global tourism industry.

On 1945, France nationalized Thomas & Sons, the oldest travel agency in France.

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The national policy of encouraging enterprises to "go global" has been gradually improved. In March 2009, the Ministry of Commerce promulgated the Measures for the Administration of Overseas Investment, which greatly simplified the approval process of overseas investment and gave enterprises more policy encouragement.

For small and medium-sized enterprises, China has set up the "International Market Development Fund for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises", built a platform for overseas economic and trade cooperation zones for small and medium-sized enterprises, and also introduced a policy of overseas mergers and acquisitions. In addition, the tourism authorities also cooperate with the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange and the China Banking Regulatory Commission to guide and promote overseas investment by China tourism enterprises.

At present, the business of "going out" tourism enterprises in China is constantly expanding, including travel agencies, restaurants, restaurants and scenic spots, and the trend of diversification is obvious. The business scope has been continuously expanded, covering more than 30 countries and regions in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania.

Although some tourism enterprises in China have a certain scale and capital strength, compared with developed countries and even developing countries such as India, the degree of internationalization of tourism enterprises in China is still very low, and their core competitiveness is not strong.

The low degree of internationalization of China's tourism industry is manifested in the lack of corporate brands with high market recognition, international leading proprietary technology and advanced management capabilities, failure to form their own intellectual property rights and build their own core competitive advantages, and lack of innovative capabilities such as business model and product development.

The bottleneck of insufficient international market knowledge and international talent reserve, especially the shortage of talents in cross-border mergers and acquisitions of tourism enterprises; Their market positioning and product positioning are vague, and their demand for overseas investment is often unclear; There is a big gap between China tourism enterprises and international tourism groups in the development of core products and the construction of distribution system.

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