{"id":120048,"date":"2019-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/chinese-company-fosun-tourism-interested-in-acquiring-thomas-cooks-tour-operations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:01:24","slug":"chinese-company-fosun-tourism-interested-in-acquiring-thomas-cooks-tour-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/chinese-company-fosun-tourism-interested-in-acquiring-thomas-cooks-tour-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Company Fosun Tourism Interested in Acquiring Thomas Cook&#8217;s Tour Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Thomas Cook has received a preliminary takeover offer for its tour operations from the Chinese company Fosun Tourism, its largest shareholder, with Thomas Cook shares rising by 20% following the news.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The world&#8217;s oldest travel and tourism company is considering the sale of its airline division and an offer for its Nordic operations, after a series of profit warnings forced Thomas Cook to raise funds to pay off debts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thomas Cook announced that it is not certain the Fosun offer will lead to a formal bid and that it will analyze any offer alongside other strategic options to maximize value for shareholders.<\/div>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Who is Fosun Tourism?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fosun Tourism is a Chinese company and the largest shareholder of Thomas Cook, currently interested in acquiring its tour operations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is Thomas Cook considering selling its divisions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The company is facing financial pressure following several profit warnings and needs to raise funds to manage its debt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened to Thomas Cook&#8217;s shares after the news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Cook&#8217;s shares increased by 20% following the announcement of the preliminary offer from Fosun Tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Cook has received a preliminary takeover offer for its tour operations from the Chinese company Fosun Tourism, its largest shareholder, with Thomas Cook shares rising by 20% following the news. The world&#8217;s oldest travel and tourism company is considering the sale of its airline division and an offer for its Nordic operations, after a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-120048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120048"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=120048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}