TRAVEL HEAD’S VISIT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29102, 14 January 1960, Page 6

TRAVEL HEAD’S VISIT

Managing Director Of Thos. Cook

Mr Charles Holt, managing director of Thos. Cook and Son, Ltd., will arrive in Christchurch on February 2 in the course of a tour of inspection of the travel agency’s offices. He will arrive from Australia, having visited company offices there, and in Singapore and Egypt, where the company has recently reopened. It closed down at the time of the Suez Canal crises.

Mr Holt has had many years’ service with the travel company. “He started at the bottom and rose to the post of managing director, to which he was appointed last July,” the manager of the Christchurch office (Mr A. M. Pointon) said. Thos. Cook and Son is one of the oldest travel agencies in the world and has been mentioned in many a story and song by its catch phrase “follow the man from Cook’s.” With a huge London headquarters covering several blocks, where 2000 persons are employed, the agency has 400 offices or representatives throughout the world, employing more than 10,000 persons. Mr Holt, who visited New Zealand about 10 years ago, when he was general manager of the company, is on a visit designed to look into tourist facilities, plan expansion of the company and the development of tourist traffic.

He will visit main centres in New Zealand and leave from Auckland for the United States in the Monterey on February 13, He will be accompanied by his wife.