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Top 25 Historical tour operators based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 157 historical tour operators headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,004 professional contacts across them, including 582 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers historical tour operators headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 20, 2026.
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The 25 largest historical tour operators based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 332 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Riviera Travel celebrates 40 years of providing high quality escorted tours and river cruises plus offering unrivalled value for money.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Golden Tours is London’s leading sightseeing company and part of the Gray Line Worldwide Association.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “City Sightseeing is the World's leading open-top bus, boat and guided walking tour company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For two decades, Expat Explore has helped more than travellers discover the world through fun, affordable, and expertly guided group tours.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Leger Shearings Group is the UK's largest escorted coach tour operator, offering self-drive breaks, holidays to the UK and Europe, specialist Battlefield Tours, and educational…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The AC Group (formerly known as AC Tours) was established in It has since built up a long standing reputation for delivering first class service in both its group and FIT…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since the founding of Star Tours, we have become a well renowned and innovative industry leader within the Asian travel market, offering unrivalled commitment to service and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Martin Randall Travel is the leading specialist in cultural holidays, offering an unequalled range of tours and events focusing on art, architecture, music, archaeology, history…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With almost 40 years of experience, we’re confident you’ll experience every destination’s deepest layer on our expertly crafted small-group tours.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tour operator specialising in short breaks, tailor made holidays and cultural tours for discerning travellers to destinations throughout Europe and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Evan Evans provides award-winning, unforgettable journeys and experiences to Britain’s most iconic locations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Premium Tours was established back in 2002.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For nearly a century, Globus family of brands has been providing a variety of holidays, escorted tours, and river cruises applauded by a diverse range of travel lovers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Anglia Tours was formed in 1997 out of a desire to offer schools the highest possible quality guided tours available in the market place.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Specialist Journeys is comprised of a group of leading Tour Operators, with offices in England, Scotland and New York.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “One of the leading, award winning 'group travel' tour operators in the UK for both incoming and outgoing tourism serving London, Great Britain, Europe and Worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Cultural Experience is an award-winning specialist tour operator offering expertly led historical, battlefield and cultural holidays across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Your Active Travel Partner in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Uncomfortable Oxford is a walking tour company dedicated to providing uniquely engaging tours that feature diverse stories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Coutours, your gateway to a delightful array of fun, informative, and truly unique tours of London!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Travel Editions offer a range of cultural, short-breaks and extended escorted tours, which appeal to travellers not tourists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tailor Made Rail is a specialist tour operator offering independent train holidays for individuals, couples and small groups within Europe, North America, South America, Africa…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded and run by archaeologists, Andante Travels has grown to become a leading specialist tour operator, offering a programme of over 120 archaeological and cultural holidays…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ashley & Newey are a leading Wholesale Tour Operator, providing a range of innovative tour programmes to coach operators based in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: historical tour operators. 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 historical tour operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of historical tour operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name historical tour operators. 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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Historical tour operators based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 157 companies.
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 historical tour operators, 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “historical tour operators”. 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 historical tour operators), 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 historical tour operators, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 582 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 20, 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.
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- Historical tour operators in London50
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 historical tour operators, 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 historical tour operators are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 157 historical tour operators headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
Riviera Travel, headquartered in Burton On Trent, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most historical tour operators?
London leads with 50 headquartered companies, followed by Edinburgh (11) and Salisbury (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 582 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 157 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 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.
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