Thomas Cook resurrected as online travel firm

In this file photo taken on September 26, 2019 A closed-down branch of the global travel group Thomas Cook is pictured three days after the company filed for bankruptcy, in Peterborough, central England on September 26, 2019. - The Chinese-owned Thomas Cook brand relaunched on September 16, 2020 as an online travel agency following the British group's collapse last year.

LONDON: Thomas Cook was relaunched yesterday as an online travel firm that will initially sell holidays to destinations on the UK government’s safe travel corridor list.

The company, bought by China’s Fosun Group for £11mil (US$14mil) after collapsing last year, has a new website through which customers can design their trips with add-ons including car hire and travel insurance, it said in a statement.