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Along with the travel companies promoting package tours to Mecca, the stall-holders included some well-known British banks, promoting Islamic finance, and the Lincolnshire police, handing out leaflets about the merits of an equal-opportunity employer with tolerant views on headgear.
ECONOMIST: Middle England takes middle-class Islam to its heart
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The most popular package tours for China's travelers are to Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Travel Watch
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In the past, Thomas Cook struggled with unsold holidays on its books, forcing it to cut capacity and reduce the price of package tours.
BBC: Thomas Cook sign
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By the end of it, Alpine package tours were being sold by the thousands by Thomas Cook and his competitors.
ECONOMIST: Mountaineering lore
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They were package tours, traveling in the company of strangers, riding by bus through the countryside, each meal and museum and hotel prearranged.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Unaccustomed Earth'