Contact Address:
Thomson
Holidays
HQ TUI UK Limited
TUI Travel House
Crawley Business Quarter
Fleming Way Crawley
West Sussex, RH10 9QL, UK
Tel no: + 0871 231 4691 |
Information:
Thomson Holidays are the longest established British
tour operator to feature Gambia in its list of destination
package holiday resorts. Thomson's first package group
was flown on its Britannia Boeing aircraft to Banjul
Airport in 1978.
Since 2001 it has chosen to send its customers to just
7 selected resort hotels in Gambia. They are the Laico
Atlantic, Golden Beach Hotel, Senegambia, Kairaba, Kombo
Beach, Sunset Beach and the Coral Beach Hotel.
 Thomson
is a member of the Association of British Travel Agents,
(ABTA no. V5126) and is Atol protected (number 2524).
The travel company was created in 1965 by Lord Thomson,
the Canadian Newspaper owner, and went on a £1.6 billion
stock market floatation in 1998. In June 2000 Thomson
accepted the German firm Preussag's buying price of
£1.8 billion after a drop of 40% in pre-tax profits
in 1999.
Company Overview:
Thomson Holidays, a division of TUI UK Ltd, (registered
in Luton LU2 9TN, No. 2830117) is part of TUI AG, the
largest tourism and services group in the world, employing
80,000 people in 500 companies around the world. TUI
AG owns many of Europe's well known holiday brands and
has leadership positions in its airline, inclusive tour
business, and travel agency sectors. The group employs
17,500 people in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark
and Finland. To find out more go to the website of www.tui-group.com.
The travel operator is the market leader in the UK all-inclusive
holiday market, a position it has held since 1974. It
has over 650 retail stores and the majority of its 3,000
employees work overseas. The company has about one third
of the market and operates in a wide range of resorts
offering a variety of holidays from summer to winter
vacations.
 Its
sister company is Thomsonfly.com, the UK’s third largest
airline. It offers award winning service on a network
of low-fare flights from 20 UK airports to over 80 destinations
around the world. Formed in 1962 and based at London
Luton Airport, Thomsonfly, used to be known as Britannia.
On Thomson Holiday's official website it often has on
offer a number of late deals to Gambia if you are travelling
within the next six weeks during the winter season.
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