Notable is Dertour's focus, from the outset, on 'shared benefits', including future 'economies of scale in the tour operator business'. These include basing Hotelplan and its brands 'on a joint technological platform'. Dertour points to its integration of Kuoni as evidence of its track record.

Should it all go through, it will leave Dertour with an enviable UK portfolio, featuring Kuoni and its 30 retail outlets, Carrier, CV Villas, Journey Latin America, Jules Verne, Kirker Holidays and recent acquisition Solmar Villas. Dertour has also committed to retaining all these brands.

I travelled there with a bunch of school groups as a reporter not long into my first journalism job - it remains one of the most powerful and eye-opening days of my entire life.

Trump's first words as president second time round: 'The golden age of America begins right now.'

He then proceeds to throw samples of his first line of tanning ointments into the amassed crowds.