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The travel business that provided a lifeline for Thomas Cook staff after the giant holiday firm went bust has said it will close 89 branches - the equivalent of one in six of its high street travel agencies. Who owns Hays Travel and how many Thomas Cook stores are they buying Salford
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This included the branch in North Street, Brighton, and two further shops in George Street and Church Road, both in Hove. Washington Upper
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Hays Travel has not renewed the leases, as part of "a planned consolidation of its UK retail estate. Carlisle
Read about our approach to external linking. Hays Travel is permanently closing 89 branches across the UK as the pandemic continues to batter the tourism industry. Romsey
Hays, who was 71, founded the business in 1980 as a travel agency in the back of his mother's clothes shop in Seaham, Durham, and grew Hays Travel into the largest independent travel agency in the country with close to 200 . Liverpool transfer news, rumours, gossip and speculation including updates on Roberto Firmino, Manuel Locatelli, Naby Keita and Mason Mount. Responding to news that Hays Travel is closing 89 shops, travel trade union TSSA says it's "a sad but inevitable move" and accuses the government of recklessness. Pickering
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Hays Travel is the UK's largest independent travel agent - it grew its portfolio dramatically when it bought out all the Thomas Cook stores when the travel company went into liquidation in 2019. Congleton
But Hays Travel came to the rescue, buying all the shops and offering jobs to almost 2,500 former Thomas Cook staff members. scheme. Wigan
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Among other options, employees will be offered the chance to join the Hays Travel homeworking division, to work from home, or take positions in other shops where there is a vacancy. York
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Travel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook. Letchworth
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The Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021. Ashbourne
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Hays said it had "made every possible effort" to avoid job losses "during these extraordinary and distressing times". If you do not receive an ATOL certificate, then the booking will
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Hays Travel then jointly led by John and Irene Hays put the review on hold to see if business returned. Hays Travel | Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre, Kent. Shop dine enjoy! Coatbridge
As an independent agent, Hays Travel uses other tour operators such as easyJet Holidays, Jet2 and TUI to provide package holidays to customers in the United Kingdom. Told that we will be removed off the contracts if we don't submit our hours for the upcoming weeks in a short amount of time but the app won't work. Saturday. Cardiff
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Hays Travel, which is the country's largest independent travel agent, will take control of 555 stores, and has already hired over 400 former Thomas Cook staff, the government Insolvency Service . Please ask us to confirm what protection may apply to your
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Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019, Dame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped. Formby
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During the lockdown, many staff are currently working from home, taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond. In a statement on Monday, Hays said the national lockdown and travel ban, which forced major holiday operators to suspend flights and holidays, meant the company had to act fast. Brecon
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"We are witnessing the death of our loved ones, the death of the high street, and chronic mismanagement of our economy by this Conservative government. Galashiels
The third national lockdown has forced the company to act as major holiday operators suspended flights and holidays. The husband and wife team who bought Thomas Cook's network of high street travel agencies out of liquidation say they have offered nearly 2,000 of the company's former staff a job . Fakenham
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