Thomas Cook

12/02/19 • 41 min

In late 2019, a travel company in the UK went belly-up overnight, stranding thousands of people who were in the middle of a vacation. Find out about the history of Thomas Cook and how its demise was no holiday.

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Business on the Brink - Thomas Cook

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Welcome to Business on the Brink, a production from I Heart Radio and How Stuff Works. I found out long ago it's a long way down the Holiday Road, and six hundred thousand people learned that same lesson when a famous travel company suddenly went out of business. The collapse required the British government to figure out how to get more than one hundred thousand citizens back home. This is Thomas Cook on Business on the Brink. Hi, everybody on Jo