Farewell Insight International Tours founder: A true hero
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Jobless and with a mortgage and 4 children to support, Nick bravely founded Insight International Tours.
In 1990, he became the founding Chairman of the European Tour Operators Association (ETOA), which was established to lobby for the whole industry at the EU level.
Despite his many accomplishments, he felt his greatest achievement was marrying Helen, who barely left his side throughout 62 years of marriage.
Many people will have known him in one walk of life, conscious of his remarkable contribution, without knowing he was just as wonderful in another.
He was the first Jewish head boy of Clifton College, captain of the cadets and captain of the first XV. He represented Liverpool, Lancashire, and England as a schoolboy rugby player and received an England trial as a schoolboy golfer. He won a state scholarship in math and gained a place at Clare College Cambridge where he read law. In the same year that he g
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Nick Tarsh, a British businessman who developed the Insight and Trafalgar travel brands, has died after a two-decade battle with metastatic prostate cancer, his family said. He was 86.
Tarsh, who died May 10, was also instrumental in creating the European Tour Operators Association, becoming its founding chairman in 1990.
Tarsh got into the travel business in the 1960s when, with the backing of an uncle, he bought a share in the Overseas Visitors Club. He later bought Trafalgar Travel, which he developed into a leading guided vacation brand under several owners, including The Travel Corp., which still owns the brand.
He eventually left Trafalgar and launched Insight International Tours, which competed head-to-head with Trafalgar until Tarsh sold it to The Travel Corp. as well.
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