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Oct 5, 2026
Victoria TomlinsonGUEST
I used to blog about them.
Victoria TomlinsonGUEST
Things like Thomas Cook the travel agent, um, some horrible stories.
Victoria TomlinsonGUEST
And if you had got proper advice from PR people, you would never have landed where they did.
Victoria TomlinsonGUEST
You, you couldn't stop the original problem, but they made it worse with trying to cover up and not admitting things.
Claire BrightonGUEST
Um, I think the traditional beach holiday will always have a place.
Claire BrightonGUEST
Um, I think that as a travel industry, uh, it, it's essentially, Thomas Cook built it on a beach holiday proposition essentially.
Claire BrightonGUEST
But I do think that people want more, and even if they're on that beach holiday, they want more.
Claire BrightonGUEST
Um-
Tracie NemethGUEST
We had to create a collage.
Tracie NemethGUEST
I remember just getting, I think it was like Thomas Cook or Lumpolly or something brochure and just cutting out pictures of Barbados.
Tracie NemethGUEST
And that's all I stuck down apart from one pair of shoes because I never had nice shoes.
Tracie NemethGUEST
And I was like, suddenly, just something as basic as that.
Christina RiggsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A moment when travel between Europe and the Middle East had only just started to pick back up.
Christina RiggsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Tourism, for instance, Thomas Cook started to hold tours again kind of in 2020, 2021.
Christina RiggsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Listen to me, sorry, 1920, 1921 in Egypt.
Christina RiggsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And that's when Egyptologists as well are kind of recovering.