{"id":9949,"date":"2024-02-26T01:30:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T06:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveling-cook.com\/?p=9949"},"modified":"2024-02-26T11:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T16:43:33","slug":"thomas-cook-history-of-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveling-cook.com\/thomas-cook-history-of-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Cook & Son in the History of Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Thomas Cook & Son History of Tourism.<\/strong> The founder grew up in a Baptist family and was a fervent believer, both traveling through his region as a missionary. I work as a cabinetmaker to earn money. Influenced by his experience as a missionary, he decided to be a teetotaler at age 25. He attributed part of the great social problems of the moment to alcohol consumption.<\/span><\/p>\r\n In a way, his participation in the anti-alcohol league<\/strong> helped him in his work success, since his first organized trip was for a group of 500 teetotalers in 1841, from Leicester to Loughborough,<\/strong> a distance of 11 miles. They paid a shilling each approximately U$S<\/strong> 3.05 today<\/span><\/p>\r\n