FRONTLINE 1974 T ravel News, August 22, 1974


O Travel News analysed the collapse of Court Line, reporting that last-ditch talks to avert a winding down of the travel company and its brands ended at 6pm on August 15. Around 50,000 customers – 40,000 booked with Clarksons and 10,000 with Horizon and 4S – were affected. Court Line directors blamed last year’s oil crisis


and economic difficulties for its failure. O Staff, including former Halcyon Horizon chief executive Sydney Perez, toiled away at a ‘rescue’ HQ in London to repatriate customers and an Abta delegation was sent to Spain to talk to tourism officials and


hoteliers affected by the collapse. O It was also reported that before Court Line’s collapse, talks had already begun between Abta and the Department of Trade to introduce a “topping up” fund, through a per-passenger levy, to strengthen Abta’s bonding arrangements.


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week in...


We take a look through the


ravel Weekly archives in our 50th year to find out what was making the headlines 10, 25 and 45 years ago . . .


T 1994 ravel Weekly, August 24, 1994


O Angry agents claimed they had not been offered an extra penny by First Choice, the former Owners Abroad, despite a claim by its chief executive Francis Baron that every agent would be paid more for supporting the operator in the six weeks following its


planned launch in summer 1995. O In an exclusive, Travel Weekly warned that small airlines could be squeezed out of distribution systems because of a multimillion-pound bill to


introduce three-letter airline codes. O Thomas Cook’s Peter Shanks defended its decision to offer all-inclusives in Spain for 1995, saying: “All-inclusives


are the way the market will go.” O On the letters page, agents moaned about the scramble by operators to launch summer brochures first. CS Randell, of CSR Travel in Birmingham, compared the battle to “small boys in a school playground squabbling over a bag of marbles”.


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ravel Weekly, September 4, 2009


O Clive Jacobs was interviewed by Travel Weekly’s Ian Taylor for the first time since taking ownership of the then TWgroup. Jacobs, founder of Holiday Autos, said business publishing had a strong future but stressed the need for the right business model and a focused, driven team. He predicted a significant proportion of consumers would become increasingly


2009


environmentally conscious, and forecast the trade would need to take the domestic


market more seriously. O Two reports revealed more than a quarter of all operators ran at a loss. Travel analyst Plimsoll said 283 out of 1,000 operators made a loss,


while 234 agencies out of 814 also ran at a loss. O Cosmos Tourama said it was to follow in the footsteps of sister operator Cosmos Holidays by becoming a trade-only brand.


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