First Choice Holidays PLC
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First Choice Holidays PLC is an international leisure travel company, operating in 17 countries. It is headquartered in Crawley, West Sussex, England. As of October 2006, the company employs over 14,000 people.
Brands that are owned by First Choice Holidays PLC include First Choice, Island Cruises, Unijet, 2wentys, Viking Aviation, Exodus, Peregrine Adventures, Trek America, Adventure Center, Trek Holidays and Falcon Holidays. The group also operates its own in-house airline, First Choice Airways.
In July 2005, First Choice Holidays purchased The Europe Express Group of Companies consisting of multi-channel distribution companies including: go-today.com for direct to consumer vacation packages, E.E.I. Travel and Brian Moore International Tours (BMIT) with travel agent distribution, Travel Services Europe (TSE), the contracting division for hotels and travel services throughout Europe.
In March 2007 TUI AG tourism division agreed to a merger with First Choice Holidays PLC.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Amy Wilson (2007). TUI and First Choice plan to merge amid competition in European travel (HTML). Bloomberg News. Retrieved on March 20, 2007.
[edit] External links
- First Choice Holidays Home Page
- First Choice Student Travel
- Eclipse Direct Home Page
- 2wentys Home Page
- Corporate website
- First Choice Holiday Hypermarket
- Europe Express
- E.E.I. Travel
- TSE website
- Trek Holidays
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