future of thomas cook affiliate khon door and other players in the industry to see whether the latest bankruptcy will have any ripple effect. so how exactly did thomas cook get here let's take a look back it all began 178 years ago as a father and son outfit offering modest trips between english cities but it grew into a multi-billion dollar travel firm with global reach and $22000000.00 customers at the turn of the century the group expanded rapidly buying up tour operators hotels and airlines across europe among the firm's subsidiaries or tour operators like tours or. which offer trips to customers in germany switzerland austria and other countries add to that cook's planes groups airlines business comprises thomas cook airlines and condo or germany now china's foe soon tourism one of cook's investors had been in talks to acquire a controlling stake in thomas cook for around 450000000 pounds but of course those talks collapsed. well over to europe a steep drop in german manufacturing is dragging down the eurozone economy that according to a key survey of business exacts the purchasi