"market, which is now dominated by a few large tour operators. The major operators are Thomson Holidays and First Choice part of TUI AG and Thomas Cook AG. Under these umbrella brands are different holiday operators catering to different markets, such as Club 18-30 or traveleze. Budget airlines have also created their own package holiday divisions such as Jet2 Holidays or Japan Airlines's J-Pack special. The trend for package holiday bookings saw a comeback in 2009, as customers sought greater financial security in the wake of a number of holiday and flight companies going bust, and as the hidden costs"
"in 1949, he was asked by a socialite with local connections, Nicholas Steinheid, to encourage British the following year. Having calculated he could charter an aircraft and provide an all-in two-week holiday in Corsica for less than £35, he set up Horizon Holidays on 12 October 1949, and initiated the package holiday industry. The name was chosen to reflect the ""blue horizon"" that passengers would see from a plane window. With inheritance money, he chartered aircraft and made the relevant local connections with the airport at Calvi. However, after considerable delay, it was only in March 1950 that the Ministry"
"Horizon Travel Horizon Travel or the Horizon Holiday Group was a British package holiday company no longer in existence, but was one of the first ventures into the package holiday market. The company was co-founded by Vladimir Raitz and Lenny Koven on 12 October 1949. The company pioneered the first mass package holidays abroad with charter flights between Gatwick airport and Corsica in 1950, and organised the first package holiday to Palma in 1952, Lourdes in 1953, and the Costa Brava and Sardinia in 1954. In addition, the amendments made in Montreal to the Convention on International Civil Aviation on"
"Vladimir Raitz Vladimir Gavrilovich Raitz (born Moscow, 23 May 1922 – 31 August 2010) was the co-founder of the Horizon Holiday Group, who pioneered the first mass package holidays abroad. His family were White Russian Jews who left the Soviet Union when he was six, and variously passed through Berlin and Warsaw, before they settled in London. He attended Mill Hill School, London and studied Economics at London School of Economics. After graduating in 1942, he started work as a journalist, first for British United Press and then for Reuters between 1943 and 1949. On holiday in Calvi on Corsica"
"in New York City. Initially, they focused on travel to the Catskills and Miami. They offered all-inclusive vacation packages that the general public could afford, which was at the time a novel approach. Gilbert Haroche has been called the originator of the package vacation with the companies ""deluxe economy package"" offered in the early 1950s. Thereafter new destinations were added one by one and the concept took off alongside the age of jet travel. Haroche expanded the stores and became responsible for the retail side of the business (Liberty Travel) whereas Fred Kassner, his founding partner, became responsible for the"
"in August 1974. He was inducted into the British Travel Industry Hall of Fame. His personal memoir, ""Flight to the Sun"", was published in 2001. Raitz had 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren. Vladimir Raitz Vladimir Gavrilovich Raitz (born Moscow, 23 May 1922 – 31 August 2010) was the co-founder of the Horizon Holiday Group, who pioneered the first mass package holidays abroad. His family were White Russian Jews who left the Soviet Union when he was six, and variously passed through Berlin and Warsaw, before they settled in London. He attended Mill Hill School, London and studied Economics at London"
"Walter Ingham Walter Ingham (1914-2000) was a UK pioneer and entrepreneur of the skiing holiday. After World War II, Britain saw an emerging demand for organised escorted foreign holidays. He helped develop the skiing marketplace in Britain and the ""package holiday"". Walter John Ingham was born in Vienna on 29 May 1914. He was the second son of Frank Ingham and Lillian Grace, née Robinson, who had eloped to Vienna from Burnley, Lancashire in 1909. The family stayed in Vienna during World War I where Frank Ingham was initially interned and then subject effectively to house arrest. The family came"
"Spain and Switzerland) in the early 1950s. Information films were shown at town halls throughout Britain. However they made a costly decision by not going into the new form of cheap holidays which combined the transport and accommodation arrangements into a single 'package'. The company went further into decline and were only rescued by a consortium buy-out on 26 May 1972. Vladimir Raitz, the co-founder of the Horizon Holiday Group, pioneered the first mass package holidays abroad with charter flights between Gatwick airport and Corsica in 1950, and organised the first package holiday to Palma in 1952, Lourdes in 1953,"
"14 June 1954 were very liberal to Spain, allowing impetus for mass tourism using charter planes. In 1974, Horizon was taken over by the Clarksons Travel Group which went bankrupt in August that year. Horizon Travel Horizon Travel or the Horizon Holiday Group was a British package holiday company no longer in existence, but was one of the first ventures into the package holiday market. The company was co-founded by Vladimir Raitz and Lenny Koven on 12 October 1949. The company pioneered the first mass package holidays abroad with charter flights between Gatwick airport and Corsica in 1950, and organised"
"Flying Santa The Flying Santa is the name given to a tradition that dates to Christmas of 1929, when packages of gifts were dropped from a plane to lighthouse keepers and their families along the New England coast. The organization was the brainchild of William H. Wincapaw, a floatplane pilot from Friendship, Maine. He was well known for transporting passengers and cargo along the Maine coast. He frequently took to the air in less than ideal conditions to provide transport for sick or injured islanders. His actions were responsible for the saving of many lives. On many of these flights,"
"Erna Low Erna Low (28 July 1909 – 12 February 2002) was an Austrian Jewish businesswoman who settled in England and is best known for her work in the ski travel industry. Low has been cited as a pioneer in the development of the package holiday and was the founder of Erna Low Travel Services Ltd. She worked in the holiday industry for over sixty years. She retired in 1995. Low was born in Vienna in 1909 as the only daughter of Eduard Carl Lӧwe and his wife Emma. She remained in the city throughout her childhood and education. She"
"initial proposal in the spring of 1882. According to McGuire, on May 8, 1882, he made a proposition to the fledgling Central Labor Union in New York City that a day be set aside for a ""general holiday for the laboring classes"". According to McGuire he further recommended that the event should begin with a street parade as a public demonstration of organized labor's solidarity and strength, with the march followed by a picnic, to which participating local unions could sell tickets as a fundraiser. According to McGuire he suggested the first Monday in September as an ideal date for"
"Christmas Day. In 1769, the navigators Rochon and Grenier proved that a faster route to India could safely be taken via the Seychelles, and thus the importance of the islands' strategic position was realised. Meanwhile, Poivre had finally obtained seedlings of nutmeg and clove, and 10,000 nutmeg seeds. His attempts to propagate them on Mauritius and Bourbon (later named Réunion) met with little success, and he thought again of Seychelles. It was considered fortuitous when Brayer du Barré (unknown-1777) arrived on Mauritius with royal permission to run a settlement on St Anne at his own expense. On 12 August 1770,"
"Bank Holidays Act 1871 The Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the first bank holidays in the United Kingdom. The Act designated four bank holidays in England, Wales and Ireland (Easter Monday; Whit Monday; First Monday in August; Boxing Day in England and Wales and St Stephen's Day in Ireland), and five in Scotland (New Year's Day; Good Friday; First Monday in May; First Monday in August; Christmas Day). In England, Wales and Ireland, Good Friday and Christmas Day were considered traditional days of rest (as were Sundays) and therefore it was felt unnecessary to include them in the Act. The"
"first organised tours dated back to Thomas Cook who, on 5 July 1841, chartered a train to take a group of temperance campaigners from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough, eleven miles away. By 1872 he was undertaking worldwide tours, albeit with small groups. His company, Thomas Cook & Son (commonly called Thomas Cook or simply ""Cook's""), grew to become one of the largest and most well known travel agents before being nationalised in 1948. With the gradual decline of visits to British seaside resorts after the Second World War, Thomas Cook & Son began promoting foreign holidays (particularly Italy,"
"package holidays. Pontins was least affected, partly as they were already providing packaged holidays and partly because their smaller camps meant they had fewer beds to fill. Butlins attempted to diversify into this same market, purchasing smaller camps and caravan parks and marketing them under the freshfields name. In the 1980s, many camps were shut down, as holidaymakers increasingly turned to package holidays and individually tailored breaks. The holiday camp was seen as run-of-the-mill, or dated. 1983 saw the Butlins camps closed in Filey and Clacton. Through the 1990s, substantial investment was made in the remaining camps as operators attempted"
"launched Cosmos Holidays in the United Kingdom and air holiday packages to southern Europe. This also led to other destinations like Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In the late 1960's, Monarch Airlines was financed by the Globus Partners. This airline, established by two British businessmen, Bill Hodgson and Don Peacock, operated independently of Globus Getaway Holidays. Monarch Airlines, working with Cosmos, were pioneers of packaged holidays and chartered flights in the UK. Mantegazza took over as president of Globus in 1975 and expanded the travel and tour business, introducing travel packages to Africa, Australia and South America. Globus also launched"
"in 1814 Napoleon 'enjoyed' his enforced ‘exile’) in pursuit of his other passion, sailing. His appreciation of classical music was also indulged by his friendship with conductor Charles Mackerras, who too had a house on the island. He died on July 18, 2000, aged 86, survived by two sons and a daughter. Walter Ingham Walter Ingham (1914-2000) was a UK pioneer and entrepreneur of the skiing holiday. After World War II, Britain saw an emerging demand for organised escorted foreign holidays. He helped develop the skiing marketplace in Britain and the ""package holiday"". Walter John Ingham was born in Vienna"
"In 1875, Louis Prang introduced the Christmas card to Americans. He has been called the ""father of the American Christmas card"". On June 28, 1870, Christmas was formally declared a United States federal holiday. Up to the 1950s in the UK, many Christmas customs were restricted to the upper classes and better-off families. The mass of the population had not adopted many of the Christmas rituals that later became general. The Christmas tree was rare. Christmas dinner might be beef—certainly not turkey. In their stockings children might get an apple, orange, and sweets. Full celebration of a family Christmas with"
"The UK Holiday Group The UK Holiday Group Ltd. or simply referred to as UKHG is a British privately owned package holiday company based in Norwich, United Kingdom specialising in holidays for elderly couples. The company was founded in 1983 by managing director, Paul Bennett. The group was founded by Paul Bennett, a graduate from University of Kent in 1983, when Paul was aged 23. Grand UK Hotels operates 9 hotels owned by UKHG. Grand UK Holidays is a sister company also. Offering cruises, coach tours, holidays by air and rail tours, they serve internationally with trips within the United"
"Package tour A package tour, package vacation, or package holiday comprises transport and accommodation advertised and sold together by a vendor known as a tour operator. Other services may be provided such a rental car, activities or outings during the holiday. Transport can be via charter airline to a foreign country, and may also include travel between areas as part of the holiday. Package holidays are a form of product bundling. Package holidays are organised by a tour operator and sold to a consumer by a travel agent. Some travel agents are employees of tour operators, others are independent. The"
"USCG Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Guthlein and retired Senior Chief David Considine are two of the people who suit up for the Flying Santa role today. The nonprofit Friends of Flying Santa was established in 1997 to continue the flights primarily as a way of expressing gratitude for the work performed by the Coast Guard. Flying Santa The Flying Santa is the name given to a tradition that dates to Christmas of 1929, when packages of gifts were dropped from a plane to lighthouse keepers and their families along the New England coast. The organization was the brainchild of William"
"beach resorts had long existed, they had been restricted to the upper class. Tens of thousands of families who had never seen the sea before now played in the waves, and Leo Langrange arranged around 500,000 discounted rail trips and hotel accommodation on a massive scale. But the Popular Front's policy concerning leisure was limited to the enactment of the two-week vacation. While this measure was thought of as a response to workers' alienation, the Popular Front gave Léo Lagrange (SFIO), named Under-Secretary for Sports and the organisation of Leisure, responsibility for organizing the use this leisure time with priority"
"Canvas Holidays Canvas Holidays is a company which offers camping holidays across Europe. Founded 50 years ago by the Cuthbert family, it was the pioneer in the sited tent market. Canvas Holidays - which has its headquarters in Dunfermline, Scotland - has campsites in a variety of countries in Europe, including France, Italy, Croatia and Spain. In 1964, Jim Cuthbert and his wife Margaret Cuthbert decided to set up a camping holiday company. The idea came to them after being on a family holiday themselves, where they had witnessed many families cramming their cars full of camping equipment. It was"
"Sue Landon Vaughan Sue Landon Vaughan (October 12, 1835 – July 22, 1911) was an American artist and writer best known for claiming to have originated the Memorial Day holiday. Born Susan Hutchinson Adams in Missouri in 1835, the daughter of John Adams and Mary Gill, she was educated at Fielding Institute, Lindonwood College and Fulton Female College in Missouri and taught school in Jackson, Mississippi in 1865. She married Cornelius Lewis Neville Vaughan in San Francisco, California in 1876. Her husband died in 1893 and she moved to Arlington, VA to live with her sister Sallie Adams. Vaughan attempted"
"Mrs. Claus Mrs. Claus (also known as Mrs Santa Claus or Amelia Kringle) is the wife of Santa Claus, the Christmas gift-bringer in American and European Christmas tradition. She is known for making cookies with the elves, caring for the reindeer, and preparing toys with her husband. The wife of Santa Claus is first mentioned in the short story ""A Christmas Legend"" (1849), by James Rees, a Philadelphia-based Christian missionary. In the story, an old man and woman, both carrying a bundle on the back, are given shelter in a home on Christmas Eve as weary travelers. The next morning,"
"Holiday on Ice Holiday on Ice is an ice show currently owned by Medusa Music Group GmbH, a subsidiary of CTS EVENTIM, Europe's largest ticket distributor, with its headquarters in Bremen, Germany. Holiday on Ice originated in the United States in 1942. It was the brainchild of Emery Gilbert of Toledo, Ohio, an engineer and builder who created a portable ice rink. He took his idea of a traveling show to Morris Chalfen, a Minneapolis executive, who supplied the financing, and George Tyson, who used his theatrical background to create the show. The touring show made its first international trip"
"he wanted to breathe life into the tiny town of Santa Claus. He started a mail-order gift shop, and, in 1946, a small theme park that he called Santa Claus Land. At first, Bill Koch didn't think much of his father's project. ""I thought it was sort of a folly,"" he said later. ""I didn't think it would go anywhere."" In 1955, Ronald Reagan, then an actor and spokesman for General Electric, stopped for a visit. And the park steadily grew from there. In 1984, Koch and his family decided to include other holidays (namely Halloween and Fourth of July)"
"holiday to come into being as a result of a sports injury. During a racquetball game between Summers and Baur, one of them reacted to the pain with an outburst of ""Aaarrr!"", and the idea was born. That game took place on June 6, 1995, but out of respect for the observance of the Normandy landings, they chose Summers' ex-wife's birthday, as it would be easy for him to remember. At first an inside joke between two friends, the holiday gained exposure when Baur and Summers sent a letter about their invented holiday to the American syndicated humor columnist Dave"
"in 1935 to provide holidays for unemployed workers and their families, and towards the end of his life set up the Family Holidays Association, to convert derelict Government training camps into holiday chalets. He was also a supporter of the Campaign for National Parks, the National Trust and the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England. He was awarded the OBE in 1937, for his work in promoting outdoor activities. In his 1947 book, ""The Englishman's Holiday"", J. A. R. Pimlott ranked Leonard alongside Thomas Cook and Billy Butlin as a pioneer of the holiday movement. He died at Conwy"
"story of ""Too Many Santas."" Over the years, both entrepreneurs' visions became vacant and neglected. On August 3, 1946, retired industrialist Louis J. Koch opened Santa Claus Land, which is claimed to be the world's first theme park. The park's name was changed to Holiday World in 1984. In 1993, it became Holiday World & Splashin' Safari when a water park named Splashin' Safari was added to the park. Still owned and operated by the Koch family, it attracts more than one million visitors annually, and it is home to The Voyage, which has repeatedly been voted by coaster enthusiasts"
"an unhappy holiday on Barry Island in his youth, when he had been locked out of his bed and breakfast accommodation all day by his landlady, which was normal practice at the time. The first of the Butlins holiday camps was opened by Billy Butlin in 1936 in Skegness, following his success in developing amusement parks. A second camp quickly followed in Clacton (1938), and construction of Filey Holiday Camp began in 1939. With the outbreak of the Second World War, building at Filey was postponed, and the camps at Skegness and Clacton were given over for military use. Wartime"
"histories state otherwise, he made clear that his plan was to establish the holiday on the next-to-last Thursday in the month instead of the last one. With the country still in the midst of The Great Depression, Roosevelt thought an earlier Thanksgiving would give merchants a longer period to sell goods before Christmas. Increasing profits and spending during this period, Roosevelt hoped, would help bring the country out of the Depression. At the time, advertising goods for Christmas before Thanksgiving was considered inappropriate. Fred Lazarus, Jr., founder of the Federated Department Stores (later Macy's), is credited with convincing Roosevelt to"