Chief executive Manny Fontenla-Novoa said the company was also on the lookout for acquisitions, as rivals struggled with rising fuel costs and slowing consumer spending.
Few details of the atrocity emerged until this month, when Mapiripan's judge, Leonardo Cortes Novoa, revealed his own chilling account of the three-day occupation of his town.
"This is an acquisition that fits perfectly with our strategy of enhancing Thomas Cook's position in the independent travel sector and will also further strengthen our mainstream business, " said Thomas Cook Group chief executive Manny Fontenla-Novoa.