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Losses steepen for Thomas Cook and Club Med's Chinese owner

Operators
James Chapple
20 August 2021

Thomas Cook and Club Med’s Chinese parent has blamed "stringent" Covid travel restrictions for its deepening half-year losses.

Thomas Cook was relaunched by Fosun as an online travel agency in September last year

Thomas Cook was agreed a deal with Poland's eSky Group last month

Fosun Tourism Group on Thursday (19 August) posted a half-year loss (six months to 30 June) of some 2.065 billion yuan, approximately £233 million.


This is more than double the 997 million yuan (£113 million) loss it reported during the same period last year. Total revenue, meanwhile, fell from 4.527 billion yuan (£510 million) to 2.781 billion (£310 million).


"Due to the continued spread of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) since the first half of 2021, various countries have taken stringent travel restrictions which significantly and negatively impacted the resort operations of the group," said Fosun in a trading update.