Press Release
July 4, 2008
Thomas Cook (India) is the Best Tour Operator
At CNBC Awaaz Travel Awards ‘08
CNBC AWAAZ Travel Awards 2008, Starting from Left to Right: Vishal Suri - COO Leisure Outbound,
Nalini Gupta - President & Head Travel Businesses, Naresh Goyal - Founder Chairman of Jet Airways,
Ambika Soni - Tourism and Culture Minister and extreme right is Haresh Chawala - Group CEO Network 18
Mumbai: Thomas Cook (India) Limited country’s leading travel and travel related financial
services Solutions Company was awarded the ‘Best Tour Operator Award’ at the CNBC Awaaz
Travel Awards 2008. The CNBC AWAAZ Travel Awards were based on an exhaustive
consumer response study, conducted across 12 cities with over 2000 consumers voting for
their choice of travel services and destinations. The award which proved as a definitive
benchmark for the Travel & Tourism industry had Honorable Minister of Culture &
Tourism - Ms. Ambika Soni felicitate the winner in Mumbai on Friday, July 3, 2008.
Amongst the other companies there were also nominated in this category were SOTC, Raj
Tours, Make my trip.com and India Tourism.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Madhavan Menon, Managing Director, Thomas Cook
(India) Limited said, “This is indeed a very proud moment for all of us at Thomas Cook.
This Award is a reflection of the superior product offering accompanied by excellent
marketing, dedicated service delivery , superior service on Tour, service quality and of
course the transparency as seen by our Customers who voted to give us this award. All this
would not have been possible without the individual contribution, dedication and
commitment of each and every member of our team.
All awards come with the understanding that we will need to scale new heights and challenge
our selves to perform better with each passing year and make a happy customer out of
everyone who comes our way”
CNBC Awaaz Travel Awards is an annual event hosted by CNBC AWAAZ to honor the
best in class travel destinations and other ancillary services of the tourism industry. With
increasing competition and proliferation of tourist destinations, tourism promotion boards,
hundreds of allied services chasing the consumer, it becomes important to establish
benchmarks that can help consumers and the industry. These Awards recognize and honor
best in class, destinations, organizations and service providers based on an objective study
conducted by India’s leading research firm, The Nielsen Company.
About Thomas Cook (India) Limited
Thomas Cook (India) offers a broad spectrum of travel and related services such as package
tours, currency exchange and travel insurance as well as hotel and flight reservations.
Thomas Cook has been present in India for over 125 years and operates over 160 offices at
various locations in the country and has operations in Sri Lanka & Mauritius. It employs
over 2,500 employees and generated Income from Operations of Rs 2.86 billion and a Net
Profit of Rs. 519.2 million for 12 months period (Dec 06 – Dec 07). In its initiative to be a
‘One Stop Shop’, the Company offers unique travel products to its customers. During CY07,
the Company launched a ‘Thomas Cook Titanium Credit Card’ and a foreign currency Debit
Card. It also came up with products designed specially for students traveling abroad for
higher studies. The Company was acquired by Thomas Cook Group PLC from Dubai
Financial Group in March 2008. Additional information on Thomas Cook (I) Limited is
available on the Company website www.thomascook.in
About Thomas Cook Group plc
Thomas Cook Group plc was formed on 19 June 2007 following the merger of Thomas
Cook AG and MyTravel Group plc. The new company is one of the world’s leading leisure
travel groups with sales of around £9 billion (€12 billion), 19 million customers, 30,000
employees, a fleet of 97 aircraft, a network of over 3,000 owned or franchised travel stores
and a number of hotels and resort properties. The Group operates in 17 source markets
including: UK & Ireland; Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland,
Hungary, Czech Republic, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Canada, India and Egypt.
For further information please contact
Thomas Cook (India) Limited: Kruti Sharma (9819998512)
kruti.sharma@in.thomascook.com
Ad Factors PR: Ketaki Golatkar (9920498503)