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Thus there are four major tour operators, Airtours, First Choice, Thompson, and Thomas Cook. The latter two are both now owned by German companies, Thompson by Preussag and Thomas Cook by C & N Touristic, while First Choice has agreed a strategic alliance with the US company Royal Caribbean (Guardian Unlimited website). And yet there are still many small companies providing inclusive holidays; 640 members of ABTA have a turnover of less than £6m (English Tourism Council, 2000). However, the share taken by the large companies has steadily increased to around 57 per cent (Chandler, 2000: D5-9).
There are now about 17 million package holidays sold each year (compared with around 8 million in 1983; BTA, 2000). The main reason why the inclusive holiday has had such an impact in Britain is because of the early emergence of integrated companies, the tour operators, who made spectacularly successful use of the new technologies of jet transport and computerised booking systems (see Reynolds, 1989: 330-3). A considerable level of concentration has accompanied the development of the package tour industry in Britain.
In response to such demand the countries of southern Europe developed enormous tourist industries. And those industries have been particularly cost-effective, which in turn has lowered the real cost of overseas travel and hence led to further expansion of demand. Spain was the first and has remained the largest of the Mediterranean destinations. Other major destination countries are France, Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Turkey. , 1986: 13). Overall, tourism generates a net distribution of wealth from northern to southern Europe,'.