150+ Best UK Travel Startups & Companies | Best Travel Companies Award 2021

Travel is big business in the UK. We have selected the top 150 Travel companies across the size spectrum to showcase. These startups and companies are all taking different approaches to innovating the Travel industry, that diversity of innovation is what makes the UK so great. 

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

Innovation

Growth

Management

Societal impact

The best Travel startups and firms in the UK

We have profiled the top 150 Travel startups, companies and firms in the UK. This list is in no particular order, all of the companies showcased here are exceptional companies, well worth following. 

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Selina

Selina is a fast-growing hospitality brand built for today’s nomadic traveler to help them live, work, and explore anywhere in the world.

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Pollen

Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.

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Mews

Mews is an innovative hospitality management cloud platform that empowers the modern hotelier to provide remarkable guest experiences.

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MoneyHOP

MoneyHOP is a digital bank providing seamless payment and cross-border remittance solutions.

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Culture Trip

Culture Trip is a travel e-commerce brand with content at its core

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Fly Now Pay Later

Fly Now Pay Later is a fintech company that helps consumers spread the cost of their travel over a flexible duration.

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Zeelo

Zeelo is the smart bus platform for organizations, providing flexible turn-key, plug-in and SaaS transportation programs.

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Citymapper

Citymapper is a transport app for cities.

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Secret Escapes

Secret Escapes is a members-only travel club offering discounted rates on luxury hotels and holidays in the UK.

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Duffel

Duffel provides an online platform that allows users to search, book, and manage flights from multiple airlines.

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The Plum Guide

The Plum Guide is building a marketplace of the world's best holiday homes.

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HolidayFox

HolidayFox is a platform to discover and book family staycations. From a fun filled day out with the kids through to a whole holiday,

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Skyports

Skyports is an urban air mobility infrastructure provider and drone delivery operator for aviation and managing end to end drone deliveries.

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Triptease

Triptease is a travel SaaS company that empowers hotels to recapture guest relationships and increase direct bookings.

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onefinestay

Onefinestay give people a new way to experience a place staying in the finest homes in their favorite cities.

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Splyt

Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.

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Velocity Black

Pioneering the future of luxury lifestyle.

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SilverRail Technologies

SilverRail offers best-in-class technical solutions that help railways and travel distributors easily connect with each other.

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Fornova

Fornova empowers hotels to optimise revenue and distribution while reducing costs and improving forecasting.

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Victor

Victor is a London, UK-based private jet charter marketplace.

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Butter.co.uk

Butter lets you spread the cost of shopping from any online store with a simple monthly instalment plan. Download the app now!

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Easol

The all-in-one platform to manage your entire experience business, on your terms.

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Faredirect

Faredirect is helping airlines to build and scale ancillary revenues.

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Yotel

Yotel offers affordable hotels with elements of luxury in smart spaces.

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Hiyacar

Hiyacar is a UK peer to peer car sharing platform.

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Stasher

Stasher is the world's first luggage storage network.

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Eurostar International

Eurostar International is a high speed train that directly links the UK to France and Belgium via the channel tunnel.

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OneTwoTrip

OneTwoTrip is a full scale b2c and b2b online travel service.

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HouseTrip

HouseTrip is an online marketplace enabling individuals and holiday rental management companies to rent out their properties to guests.

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SKOOT

SKOOT is a new Carbon Negative carpooling app connecting friends / colleagues and communities improving mobility for all

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Much Better Adventures

Much Better Adventures helps people organize their skiing, cycling, or road biking holiday directly with specialist independent operators.

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WeSwap

WeSwap is a mobile application that allows users to swap different types of currency with others.

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LuckyTrip

LuckyTrip is a travel inspiration app that lets you find a trip in one tap.

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Connexin

Connexin specialises in award winning Fibre Optic and Voice Services.

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BeRightBack

BeRightBack is a new way to travel.

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AirPortr

AirPortr is a Software and Service company developing and delivering innovative baggage services for passengers, airlines and airports.

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SalesTrip

Expense management and travel booking system on Salesforce. Better track and justify expense spend with SalesTrip.

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HalalBooking

World's No1 search website for halal-conscious travelers

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Abellio

Abellio delivers rail and bus services to passengers in Scotland, England, and Germany.

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Pluto

The home of all your travel plans. Discover, organise and protect your trips, all in one place.

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Staykeepers

Asset light, tech-enabled platform driven by the shared economy to unlock untapped revenue for institutional residential owners & managers

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tripAbrood

tripAbrood is an AI-driven travel platform for families to discover and book holidays.

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Luxtripper

Luxtripper is a luxury travel company that operates an online travel booking site which matches users with suitable holiday destinations.

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Hotelmize

Hotelmize is a platform designed to improve the pricing and booking process of hotel rooms using big data analysis.

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HotelRunner

SaaS enabled B2B network for accommodations and travel agencies to find, contract, connect, and transact with each other online.

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Beeline

Smart navigation, made simple. For a global community of adventurers

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Wevat

Wevat is the best way to get your tax back on shopping in the UK.

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Rocco Forte Hotels

Rocco Forte Hotels is a luxurious high end hotel chain.

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VISXA

Building an Immigration Platfrom

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Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station is a travel and tourism company.

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Snaptrip

Snaptrip is a marketplace for people to discover the best last minute cottage holiday deals in the UK.

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AltoVita

Award-winning enterprise software layered with a human-centric approach to power the flexible rentals market sector.

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Travel Curious

A travel technology company that provides ‘private tours and activities as a service’ to hospitality and travel companies globally

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Love Home Swap

Love Home Swap is a home-swapping website enabling members to exchange and rent homes.

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Tab

We’re revolutionising the way travellers discover, plan and book a trip.

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YETiCO

We build software for card machines that solves real world problems.

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NextRetreat

Travel Booking site, designed for teams.

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Festicket

Festicket is a marketplace to discover and book music festival tickets, accommodation, transfers and extras.

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minicabit

Smart marketplace to connect customers & business with all types of cab service providers of today and those in the mobility future

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TravelTime Technologies

Technology that can map, rank and sort location based data by travel time instead of distance. Available as an API or analytics plugins.

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VizEat

VizEat is a European startup that operates a “social dining platform.

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Road.Travel

The 1st Global Curated Routes Ecosystem for Sustainable Car Travels and Safe In-Car Experience for Travellers

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thesqua.re

Inventive corporate serviced apartments provider with loyalty programme, all-in-one online accounts, community events and concierge app.

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Splento

Professional Photographers on Demand

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Ubio

Ubio provide direct booking capabilities for travel metasearch websites and apps.

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UnderTheDoormat

Our mission is to redefine the future of accommodation.

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ACHICA

ACHICA is an online members-only lifestyle store offering luxury brands at discounted prices.

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Sweep

Sweep is building the first end-to-end travel & expenses management system for European SME's.

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golfscape

The only worldwide golf reservations platform and course operations technology infrastructure

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Byway Travel

Byway Travel provides slow travel trips that take the scenic route to local stays, off-the-beaten path experiences.

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easyGuide

Discover and book tickets to top attractions, activities, experiences, tours and theatre shows in your favourite locations around the world!

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Key Travel

Key Travel is a travel management company that offers its services to NGO, academic, and faith sectors.

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WAYN

WAYN is a travel and lifestyle-based social network enabling users to meet like-minded people.

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Travel Creators

Our platform is focused on the peer to peer Travel Creator economy.

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Everyman Media Group

Everyman is an independent cinema group in terms of cinema venues, screens and admissions.

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AVUXI

Ranking the popularity of every place on Earth. Makers of TopPlace™ - the leading plug-n-play GeoPopularity engine with Worldwide coverage.

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Bakuun.com

Transforming and sharing the hotels' inventories

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Parabis Group

Parabis Group provides legal solutions for insurance, travel, and other related industries.

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Troubadour Goods

Troubadour Goods is a menswear fashion brand

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Wizme

Wizme makes meetings and events management magical through superior ease of use and smart technologies.

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Veeve

Characterful homes. Dedicated service. Memorable stays.

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Edge Retreats

The global curated marketplace for luxury villa rentals, with exceptional service and expert concierge

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Big Bus Tours

Big Bus Tours is a global operator of premium open-top sightseeing tours.

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the Bike Club

the Bike Club is a platform that offers pay monthly kids bikes that are exchanged as children grow up.

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Timescenery

All-in-One Trip Planner and Marketplace – the next stage in travel tech after metasearch | Plug and Play 2017

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The Thinking Traveller

The Thinking Traveller is a multiple award-winning villa rental company specialising in luxury villas.

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SkiYodl

SkiYodl is a platform that allows its users to search and book their ski trips in real-time.

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Journee

Exciting trips. Matched to you. Without the admin.

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Esplorio

Esplorio uses social data and our iOS app to create a digital travel journal that you can use to re-live and share your adventures.

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incrediblue

incrediblue is a U.K.-based online marketplace for boat rentals that helps travelers plan their rides in advance.

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TransferTravel.com

TransferTravel.com operates as a global peer to peer travel marketplace.

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Grapevine

Grapevine is an AI-powered digital concierge providing tools to increase ancillary attachment rates and capture in-destination revenues.

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Trust Payments

Trust Payments is a global unified payments group for global pay-in, pay-out and customer journey technologies.

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Pop & Rest

Our platform connects local workers and travellers with sleep & meditation pods. Book by the hour to recharge

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Trainline

Trainline is the world’s leading independent digital rail platform.

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Family Traveller

Family Traveller is a multi-platform brand operating across familytraveller.com, social media and email.

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Nightset

Nightset is a nightlife marketplace that connects people, venues, and brands on one platform globally.

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Chic Retreats

A luxury travel marketplace using the latest in digital technology to connect our collection of independent hotels to affluent travellers

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Volangua

Language Learning Marketplace.

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Down-Route

Down-Route is a unique, revolutionary app which combines expense management and hotel booking in one place.

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GTA

GTA provides ground travel products and services to the fully independent travel industry.

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YMCA East London

Provides support & accommodation to young homeless people.

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Firefly Experience (Firef.ly)

Illuminating Journeys. Firef.ly is a mobile app which distils trip planning, guiding and journalling into a beautiful experience.

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Crepeaffaire

Crêpeaffaire offers freshly prepared crêpes, waffles, coffees and smoothies.

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Sure

Sure curates the most "Instagrammed" food and drink spots.

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Nestify

Property management, Vacation Rental, Rental property

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Yomp

Yomp is B2B Employee-engagement platform to improve Health and Wellbeing.

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Loco2

Loco2 lets you search for and book European train tickets through a simple and easy-to-use interface.

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Widerfi

Widerfi enables international travelers home-like unlimited mobile internet experience without changing SIM card in the device.

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Follow Alice

We make adventure travel a truly holistic and personal client experience by blending technology with human interaction.

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FLYT

FLYT is a helicopter booking platform that offers a unique combination of speed, convenience, and luxury.

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British Airways

British Airways provides international and domestic scheduled air services for the carriage of passengers and cargo.

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onPony

onPony is a digital platform that connects people traveling with people looking to send something. Earn on travels and save on deliveries.

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Heygo

Real-time, bite-sized and interactive video streams from our local experts around the world.

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Haxi

Transport sharing service. Passengers can search local drivers. Drivers can offer transport.

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Nightly.travel

Nightly.travel is a new way to book hotels – giving travellers the option to switch hotels once during their trip to get the best value.

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BidToTrip

BidToTrip is an auction site for luxury hotels and other travel items.

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Gomingo

Gomingo operates as an online hotel and travel agency.

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Adaptis Solutions

Adaptis Solutions Ltd, a Liverpool, UK-based transport and travel software business. Founded in 2005 by CEO Manni Marway, Adaptis provides

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Roadbook

ROADBOOK is an innovative digital media platform designed for a new era of travel.

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Dormoa

Dormoa.com is a Vacation Rental Listing Channel created and designed to offer Italian users selected Vacation rental accommodation.

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Dynamo

Dynamo allows sharing Luxury Experiences (eg. Villas, Yachts, VIP Tables); thanks to its experience providers network in 20 cities worldwide

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SpeediFly

SpeediFly is for spontaneous travelers who want to get away last minute, but don’t know where they can go on a budget.

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gocarshare.com

GoCarShare offers an online platform that enables its users to earn through sharing rides with the other users.

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Odyssey Airlines

Odyssey Airlines will begin offering premium non-stop business class services

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The Luxè Week

Technology Travel Agency

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EarnAway

EarnAway is a hotel discovery and rewards platform with the mission to make hotel booking easier and more rewarding for our members

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Board a Boat

Board a Boat is a boat trip marketplace that enables boat owners, managers and skippers to offer private and semi-private boat trips.

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Whitecar

Whitecar uses the best technology combined with the best customer service to deliver a car hire experience beyond expectation.

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International SOS

International SOS is the world’s leading medical and travel security services company.

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Viva City

Viva City offers guest experience, discovery, and analytics software to help businesses thrive with the Chinese Inbound market.

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Cirium

Cirium brings together aviation and travel data and analytics to keep the world moving.

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Cookisto

Cookisto is an online community marketplace for homemade food.

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Tuki

Tuki is a tourism company that specializes in the fields of travel, innovation, economy sharing, and sharing economy.

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Orange Bus

We are Orange Bus, a digital agency based in the UK.

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eRevMax

Leader in hotel channel management, rate shopping, business intelligence and booking engine solutions

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Jambo App

Jambo. Say Hello! Embrace adventures with new friends

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DMG Media

DMG media is a consumer media company engaged in print and online newspaper publishing.

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Ten Lifestyle Group Plc

Ten Lifestyle Group Plc is a technology enabled lifestyle and travel platform company.

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Pitchup.com

Making it a doddle to book campsites in 65 countries. Member of Financial Times FT1000 fastest-growing companies in Europe 2018/19/20.

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Toocs

Toocs helps people reserve a local e-scooter on its Android or iOS app, ride for a small fee, and leave it at a designated drop-off point.

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Lodgeo

Lodgeo is the first price comparison app with a booking functionality that will make you enjoy your booking

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Trafalgar Tours

Trafalgar is the world leader in guided vacations to Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, Australia & New Zealand.

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Logameal

Improve your eating habits — just by taking photos of your meals.

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No.1 Traveller

No.1 Traveller provides smart choices from driveway to runway, offering a tailored service and providing excellence at great value.

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Bizpora

Bizpora is a web-based platform that enables its users to meet people in their business trips.

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Lotus

Lotus is a specialist travel PR and representation outfit.

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Islandii.com

Islandii is an online platform that operates as a holiday builder.

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PKFARE

Online travel trade marketplace offering air tickets, hospitality and destination products based in Shenzhen.

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OutOfOffice.com

The luxury tailor-made LGBT travel company.

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