Thomas Cook India enters Jammu and Varanasi market

 

Thomas Cook, a travel firm has inaugurated its first Gold Circle Partner franchise outlet in Jammu‘s Bahu Plaza with a focus to leverage the growth potential of the region it has been on an expansion spree despite the challenges posed by the ongoing pandemic. Jammu‘s consumers will benefit from Thomas Cook India’s range of end-to-end travel solutions, including international and domestic holidays (group tours, personalized and luxury holidays, cruises, etc.), travel insurance and visa services.

“We have been observing strong and increasing travel appetite from Jammu and hence we are delighted to announce our first Gold Circle Partner franchise outlet in Jammu. We have selected Bahu Plaza given its prime location that provides us with a viable catchment across families, young working professionals and corporate travellers." It said.

The firm has also expanded its footprint in Uttar Pradesh with the launch of a new Gold Circle Partner franchise outlet in Varanasi at RathYatra Chauraha. This expansion augments Thomas Cook India‘s distribution and reach in Uttar Pradesh to seven consumer access centres, which includes one owned branch and six Gold Circle Partner (franchise) outlets–across Lucknow, Kanpur, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Prayagraj and Varanasi.

In its Holiday Readiness Report, Thomas Cook India highlighted two key insights: a significant 67% respondents are keen to travel in the next six months and a sizeable 84% prefer reputed brands—especially when travelling amid the threat of covid. The company said that it will continue to enter new markets leveraging the growing demand for trusted travel brands.

 

Thomas Cook India expands its Franchisee Network

Thomas Cook (India), India’s leading integrated travel and travel related financial services company, has launched two new retail stores at Malad and Kharghar on August 27, 2014 and September 3, 2014, respectively. The company’s footprint in the state of Maharashtra now extends across 35 locations, including metros, mini metros and TIER II & III markets, via a combination of owned branches and franchise ‘Gold Circle Partner’ outlets.

Mumbai and Maharashtra have been identified as priority markets in Thomas Cook India’s strategic expansion plan, and the two new stores at Malad and Kharghar are a step closer to providing easy accessibility to its consumers in Mumbai- with a current total of 24 retail touch points.

The two new retail outlets will offer travellers of Mumbai and Navi Mumbai access to Thomas Cook India’s premium service quality across its range of holiday products (domestic and international tickets & hotels, cruises, individual and group tours, its luxury vacations- Indulgence), visa services & insurance.

Thomas Cook is the largest integrated travel and travel related financial services company in the country offering a broad spectrum of services that include Foreign Exchange, Corporate Travel, MICE, Leisure Travel, Insurance, Visa & Passport services and E-Business.

Thomas Cook targets tier II & III cities

Thomas Cook (India) Ltd, an integrated travel and travel related financial services company has a footprint that extends to over 236 locations (including 19 airport counters) in 98 cities across India, Mauritius and Sri Lanka, and is supported by a strong partner network of 116 Gold Circle Partners and 165 preferred sales agents in over 150 cities across India.

Thomas cook plans to expand its network to tier II, III cities. It's also looking to increase focus on the Middle-East market, since it will continue to grow massively over the next few years.

Thomas Cook India follows the single model franchise pan-India, offering consumer services like visas, holiday packages, forex, travel insurance, ticketing and others. The franchise model allows the franchisees to bring in only the investment and the remaining part is taken care of by the company.