TY - BOOK ID - 78492178 TI - Thomas Arthur Leonard and the Co-operative Holidays Association PY - 2017 SN - 1443858439 9781443858434 9781443812672 PB - Newcastle-upon-Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Outdoor recreation KW - Tourism KW - Travel agents KW - Social reformers KW - Travel agencies KW - Travel bureaus KW - Commercial agents KW - Holiday industry KW - Operators, Tour (Industry) KW - Tour operators (Industry) KW - Tourism industry KW - Tourism operators (Industry) KW - Tourist industry KW - Tourist trade KW - Tourist traffic KW - Travel industry KW - Visitor industry KW - Service industries KW - National tourism organizations KW - Travel KW - History KW - Employees KW - Economic aspects KW - Co-operative Holiday Association KW - C.H.A. (Co-operative Holiday Association) KW - CHA (Co-operative Holiday Association) KW - Cooperative Holidays Association KW - History. KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78492178 AB - This book focuses on Thomas Arthur Leonard, a Congregational minister in Colne, Lancashire in the 1890s, and the Co-operative Holidays Association, which he founded in 1893. The Co-operative Holidays Association, which was re-named the Countrywide Holidays Association in 1964, but was always affectionately known as the CHA, operated as an independent provider of outdoor holidays until 2002. Leonard left the CHA in 1913 to establish the Holiday Fellowship, an organisation with similar ideals to the CHA, which continues to trade as HF Holidays. Leonard was also instrumental in the establishment o. ER -