Great ideas are fruitful
when they are associated with a spirit capable of conducting "
- G. Papini
THE LEGACY OF THOMAS COOK
Last week we talked about tourism and its main driver, THOMAS COOK, who is considered the Father of Tourism, by the fact be the first to organize a walk or a tour between Leicester and Langborough (both central cities England) for Congress against alcohol, we are talking about the year 1841.
The Boom of Mountaineering in Switzerland was one of the destinations for health tourism offering rest and Cook.
The mere fact of organizing travel for various human needs, such as recreation, where the choices are many, such as know a particular region, pilgrimage or religion, business, health, mountain adventure, beach, forest, etc ..., obtaining compensation benefits money, is a social activity called Tourism. That was our friend Thomas Cook and his time was very good.
In 1841 his inspirational journey to the congress discussed above, approximately 500 people met, ten years later organized a trip for 165,000 people to an event called the Universal Exhibition in London and five years later with a similar amount to another exhibition called Paris Exposition.
Because of these successes, in 1865, Thomas and his son John Mason Cook, formed the first travel agency called THOMAS COOK & SON.
were many places who offered, in particular Switzerland, small and beautiful country in south central Europe, which was highly prized for its natural landscapes suitable for health and relaxation, plus the emerging Climbing Boom, package tours used by Cook.
In 1865, due to high demand of visitors (tourists), he moved his office Langborough to London where he is currently the Central Agency. The following year he traveled to the United States to do business with railway companies and American tourist agents, opening-and hopefully-branches in several cities in the country.
A Type of Tourism: Pilgrimage and Religious Tourism.
Our friend Cook achieved exclusively with several countries to carry passengers as tourists even during the war enters France and Prussia, only Cook could do with tourist activities in these territories.
This innovative entrepreneur created the system PACKAGE that under DICTIONARY GENERAL TOURISM , Novo Gerardo Valencia is "travel contract entered into by one side is a travel agency and another buyer, based on a planned itinerary that combines coordinated transportation services, lodging, food and sometimes other ancillary services, all posing as a unit, according to a predetermined price ... "
Maritime Transport was the most requested by travelers worldwide.
Cook, sparkling creativity, designed the INDIVIDUAL PACKAGES , which were based on additional features make the tour and the services available according to customer needs. It's not just provide a service, is the way it offers and what it can additionally provide for customer satisfaction.
To quote an old song "It Is not What you do, it's the way you do it. "
( is not what you do, it's the way you do).
Our friend Cook, opened path to new ideas and were born many companies involved in tourism, brokers, wholesalers, carriers by land, air, sea, in order to form a whole new global economy. Thomas Cook Tourism Father died in Leicester on July 18, 1892, taking 84 years of age.
SOMETHING NEW IN TOURISM pays tribute to those visionaries who put their grain of sand to build a different world, a changing world. We do not take into account nationality, or color, no religion, no trend or way of life, the secret of peace lies in tolerance and mutual respect.
Airplane James Crawford Angel (Jimmy Angel), stranded on top of
Auyantepuy after an emergency landing after seeing the Kerepacupay.
People like Thomas Cook, Father of Tourism and the same Jimmy Angel who unwittingly discovers Kerepacupay vein known as the Angel Falls , "Salto de Agua higher World ", but actually it was not he who discovered it, but a Venezuelan ten years before the American pilot. A Venezuelan, not indigenous, but we will discuss later.
SOMETHING NEW IN TOURISM want to note that this reading corner not intended to be more of what you consider to be, according to the utility that they can get these lines, only a contribution of a Venezuelan who loves this land and this land remains.
worthwhile and I hope that all who live in this wonderful country with the best wishes in this coming year and remember how to get what we want is fighting for her respecting others. Learning from Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Lobsang Rampa, Bolivar, Jesus.
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