His son, Alex, described his dad as “the tour operator who you’ve never heard of – but also the man to whom tour operators owe a huge debt of gratitude”.
Following the collapse of Court Line Holidays in 1975, Murison Small decided to gather rival firms to work out how smaller tour operators, such as his own eponymously named Murison Small, could obtain a tour operator’s licence at that time.
Back then, tour operators – regardless of their size – were required to provide significant financial bonds to ensure all their holidaymakers, in the event of a company failure, could return home and repayments could be made to customers who had not yet travelled.
