{"id":61,"date":"2011-11-23T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T21:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/?p=61"},"modified":"2011-11-24T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T05:25:10","slug":"business-as-usual-i-think-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/2011\/11\/23\/business-as-usual-i-think-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Business as Usual? I Think Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cThomas Cook Canada says &#8216;business as usual&#8217; despite parent firm trouble\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National Post, Financial Times, by Scott Deveau, November 22, 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/files\/2011\/11\/planes1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63 aligncenter\" title=\"planes\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/files\/2011\/11\/planes1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Source: google images<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of plummeting stocks and news its parent company in the United Kingdom had commenced with emergency talks with financiers for the second time in a month, Thomas Cook Canada has been left reeling.\u00a0 Despite efforts to create an optimistic spin, consumers are left apprehensive.\u00a0 In the wake of political unrest, shaky demand in countries such as Europe, among others, has led to shares in the Thomas Cook Group PLC dropping 75% in trading on the London Stock Exchange.\u00a0 Speculation that the company will eventually cease to operate in Canada is quietly expressed.\u00a0 While Thomas Cook Chief Financial Officer, Paul Hollingsworth emphasized financial goals are in place to address the current crisis, the company\u2019s death knoll is tolling.\u00a0 Despite sunny predictions of a rosy future and assurances that bookings are being accepted as usual, consumers are wary.\u00a0 Could there be anything worse than the idea of having a long-planned for trip torpedoed at the last minute by a travel company meltdown?\u00a0 The potential of standing at the airport, sunscreen, holiday wear, and that great book in hand, only to be met with the news the company has folded, is too much to bear for most vacation-deprived Canadians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThomas Cook Canada says &#8216;business as usual&#8217; despite parent firm trouble\u201d National Post, Financial Times, by Scott Deveau, November 22, 2011 Source: google images In the wake of plummeting stocks and news its parent company in the United Kingdom had commenced with emergency talks with financiers for the second time in a month, Thomas Cook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hilaryj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}