![]() ![]() His decade-long campaign for the abolition of Provision One was victorious in 1971, a year after Clarksons welcomed its millionth passenger. Impeded by “Provision One” – an Air Transport Licensing Board rule that charter-flight packages could not be sold cheaper than scheduled fares to the same destinations offered by the likes of British European Airways – Gullick sometimes had to charge holidaymakers more than he wanted but give discounts back in free meals and excursions. Gullick’s passion was to give his customers, who were often first-timers abroad, wonderful experiences at accessible prices but achievement of that aim was far from easy. The business gradually expanded and from 1964 it offered all-inclusive 25-guinea (£26.25) one-week holidays to the Costa Dorada in Spain, reached via flights to Clermont Ferrand in France and onward overnight coaches.Īs package holidays boomed, the glossy brochures of Clarksons Tours offered destinations as far afield as Tunisia, Yugoslavia and Norway. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gullick joined the travel agency subsidiary of H Clarkson, an old-established City shipbroker, in 1958 after leaving the Royal Navy – and began organising group day-trips to Brussels and later to the Dutch tulip fields, at £5 per person, using charter flights from Luton and Southend. Tom Gullick, who has died aged 92, was a pioneer of value-for-money package holidays in the 1960s as managing director of Clarksons Tours he was also one of the world’s greatest birdwatchers and believed to be the first to have officially spotted more than 9,000 avian species. ![]()
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