Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Travel guide and publishing companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,117 travel guide and publishing companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 11,023 professional contacts across them, including 1,346 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers travel guide and publishing companies worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026. Country and city lists for travel guide and publishing companies follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest travel guide and publishing companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 308 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Créateur du concept de City Guide, le Petit Futé est aujourd'hui l'éditeur n°1 en Europe avec plus de 700 titres et des millions d'adresses dans l'univers de la consommation, des…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rick Steves' Europe is a multi-faceted travel company that's committed to creating an environment of inclusiveness where every person feels welcome and valued.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 140 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Im Jahre 1722 gegründet gehören wir als Unternehmen der HarperCollins Verlagsgruppe zu den führenden deutschen Publikumsverlagen im Ratgeber- und Reiseführermarkt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “APL Media specialises in producing high quality travel and lifestyle content for the consumer and trade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AFAR Media's mission is to inspire, guide and enable travelers to have richer, deeper and more fulfilling travel experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Matador is the world’s largest independent travel publisher, with over 8 million unique monthly visitors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fodor's helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insights and tools you need to experience the trips you want.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a global marketing company that has specialised in the international luxury hotel and leisure industry for over 25 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wcities is a travel and entertainment content publisher founded in 1998 and based in San Francisco, CA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kosmos Uitgevers is een toonaangevende uitgeverij van informatieve boeken die je leven verrijken.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thrillist helps its ever-curious readers, no matter where they are in the world, to discover their next adventure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Al meer dan 25 jaar maakt mo’media boeken voor nieuwsgierige reizigers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Morris Media Network is the world’s premier publisher of original, expert-driven print and digital content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “VIVA Travel Guides is revolutionizing the travel publishing industry by uniting professional travel writers, local experts, and travelers to create the world's most up-to-date…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Explorer provides high-end solutions for government agencies, charities, brands, tourism authorities and academic institutions across the UAE.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FVW Medien, Germany's leading travel industry media group with more than 45 years of expertise in tourism, provides widely known and recognized publications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PANROTAS is the leading travel trade publishing company in Brazil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mappy SA offers route planning services; publishes maps; and supplies tourist and practical information.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Premier Travel Media connects the group travel industry through publishing and marketing solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Europe's longest-running independent travel magazine, Wanderlust celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2023.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La nostra casa editrice, fondata nel 1994 a Milano, prende il nome dallo street paper Terre di mezzo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stanfords is the UK's leading specialist retailer of maps, travel books and other travel accessories, having been established in 1853 by Edward Stanford.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Publishers Weekly recognized ECW Press as one of the most diversified independent publishers in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: travel guide and publishing companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names travel guide and publishing companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of travel guide and publishing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name travel guide and publishing companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Travel guide and publishing companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among travel guide and publishing companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for travel guide and publishing companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “travel guide and publishing companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names travel guide and publishing companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among travel guide and publishing companies, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,346 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Travel guide and publishing companies by location
6 lists · largest firstEvery Travel guide and publishing companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Travel guide and publishing companies based in the United States177
- Travel guide and publishing companies based in the United Kingdom94
- Travel guide and publishing companies based in France89
- Travel guide and publishing companies based in Germany68
- Travel guide and publishing companies based in Australia33
- Travel guide and publishing companies based in the Netherlands26
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names travel guide and publishing companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many travel guide and publishing companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,117 travel guide and publishing companies worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Petit Futé, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most travel guide and publishing companies?
The United States leads with 177 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (94) and France (89). Every travel guide and publishing companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most travel guide and publishing companies?
London leads with 43 headquartered companies, followed by Paris (33) and New York (16).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.