{"id":293545,"date":"2019-09-24T07:15:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293545"},"modified":"2019-09-24T07:26:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:26:16","slug":"thomas-cooks-collapse-strands-about-50000-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thomas-cooks-collapse-strands-about-50000-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Cook&#8217;s collapse strands about 50,000 in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 50,000 tourists are stranded in Greece, mainly on islands, after British travel firm Thomas Cook collapsed, a Greek tourism ministry official told Reuters on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The tourists, mainly British, were vacationing on the islands of Zakynthos, Kos, Corfu, Skiathos and Crete, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The top priority now is to get them back home,&#8221; the official said, declining to be named.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Cook, one of Britain&#8217;s oldest companies, ran hotels, resorts and airlines for 19 million people a year in 16 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Greece&#8217;s hotel federation said Thomas Cook&#8217;s financial collapse would be a significant blow for hoteliers, since many vacation packages were not prepaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 50,000 tourists are stranded in Greece, mainly on islands, after British travel firm Thomas Cook collapsed, a Greek tourism ministry official told Reuters on Monday. The tourists, mainly British, were vacationing on the islands of Zakynthos, Kos, Corfu, Skiathos and Crete, the official said. &#8220;The top priority now is to get them back home,&#8221; the official said, declining to be named. Thomas Cook, one of Britain&#8217;s oldest companies, ran hotels, resorts and airlines for 19 million people a year in 16 countries. The head of Greece&#8217;s hotel federation said Thomas Cook&#8217;s financial collapse would be a significant blow for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}