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Who is considered as the Father of Modern Tourism ?

  1. Thomas Cook

  2. Pythagorus

  3. Charles Babbage

  4. Ernest Rutherford
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Thomas Cook is considered the father of modern tourism for organizing the first packaged tour in 1841, taking 570 people by train from Leicester to Loughborough for a temperance meeting. He founded Thomas Cook & Son, which became the world's first modern travel agency.

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