about us
The Monarch Group contains some of the best-established names in the British travel sector. Customer care and service lie at the heart of the Group's business approach, and the Group enjoys high levels of repeat business from both business and retail customers in all its operations. When the Group was founded in its current form in 1967 it had 146 staff - today this has grown to over 3,000 highly-trained personnel.
The holding company of the Group is Monarch Holdings plc. The principal subsidiaries are Monarch Airlines, Monarch Aircraft Engineering, First Aviation and a number of household-name tour operators such as Cosmos Holidays, Avro, Archers Direct and Cosmos Tours and Cruises, as well as the online hotel booking service somewhere2stay.com.
Having been in operation for some 50 years, Cosmos Holidays is one of the oldest and best established brands in UK tour operating, and provides holidays to over 780,000 customers in 65 destinations annually. Cosmos is the UK's largest independent tour operator. Cosmos Coach Tours remains the world's largest European coach tour operator with escorted coach touring programmes throughout Europe, North America and worldwide. The Cosmos air and coach programmes offer a wide range of high quality products and great value holidays to both short and long haul destinations.
Why choose Cosmos?
- No debit card fees
- Low deposits
- Baggage included
- Over 50yrs experience
- All holidays ATOL protected
