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The guardian is a British newspaper, so there's an understandable focus.

An additional factor may be the insurance situation: Some countries require travel organizers to set up insurance for these cases, ensuring that customers can still get back. I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think the UK doesn't have such requirements, which would worsen the situation for them in particular.

This isn't the only article; many US newspapers have also had the same focus.

Notice the lack of coverage of the other 450k?

if you read a Swedish newspapers they'll talk about the Swedish customers, read a German newspaper and they'll talk about the German customers and so on.

The 10-20k Dutch customers of Neckermann and TC are covered by an equivalent fund for safe voyage home (and possible payout). I guess more countries have some kind of arrangement.

its quite possible they don't know the origin of the other customers, so nothing to report there

From the 05:37 summary:

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* There are 600,000 Thomas Cook travellers who have been left stuck overseas.

* More than 150,000 of those are Britons.

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