The enduring appeal of package holidays
IF YOU were challenged to name someone whose innovation has given most pleasure to most British people, it’s unlikely you’d come up with the name Vladimir Raitz.
And yet he has a good claim to the title. In fact, nearly every Brit has at some time had a whole new and exciting world opened up to them thanks to him…
It was back in 1950 when foreign travel by air was for a special few that, while holidaying in Corsica, this immigrant had the idea of chartering a governmentsurplus Dakota and taking British holidaymakers to the same destination.
There were 11 passengers on the first trip. The package holiday pioneers
