Risktory: The Story Of Risk

Coming up on this week’s episode, I am going to look at the 2019 collapse of Thomas Cook, a 178 year old veteran of the travel industry that, seemingly, disappeared overnight.Like all corporate collapses, the seeds of Thomas Cook’s destruction were sewn long before the final coup de grace. Ill-thought through acquisitions. A ‘bloated retail footprint’. An inability to keep up with the increasing commoditization of the travel market. In the end, the collapse of Thomas Cook was less than an overnight collapse, and more of, what website skift.com calls ‘a disaster played out in slow motion’. The Risktory Podcast is created, written, produced and hosted by Jacinthe A Galpin. Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)Alan Spiljak – CloudsAlan Spiljak – ForgottenAlan Spiljak – Light blueAlan Spiljak – Empty daysAlan Spiljak – Stars aboveAlan Spiljak – Not the endAlan Spiljak – SunAlan Spiljak – Flying awayAlan Spiljak – TimeAlan Spiljak – Fantasy in my mind Bibliographyhttps://www.cityam.com/timeline-