just one country badly affected by a changing climate as world leaders gather in new york for the u.n. climate summit. this is the business i'm joined on in berlin while we begin with the collapse of the world's oldest travel company thomas cook had stopped operating after failing to secure a last minute bailout that's left more than half a 1000000 holidaymakers around the world stranded well have more on that in a minute but here's a look back at that era that's now come to an end it all began 178 years ago as a father and son outfit offering modest trips between english cities but it grew into a multi $1000000000.00 travel firm with global reach and $22000000.00 customers at the turn of the century the group expanded rapidly buying up tour operators hotels and airlines across europe among the firm's subsidiaries are tour operator necromancer which offers trips to customers in germany switzerland austria and others to that coax planes the groups the airline business comprise comprises of