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Top 25 Specialist tour operators based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 1,324 specialist tour operators headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 17,234 professional contacts across them, including 6,372 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers specialist 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 22, 2026.
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 specialist tour operators based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 883 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 30 years, we’ve listened to what people want to experience and how they want to feel on their travels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 706 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are travel experts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 654 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Experts in tailormaking itineraries worldwide, Trailfinders offers unbeatable value and exceptional service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 417 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Monarch is the UK’s longest-established, privately owned travel group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 360 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kuoni has set the pace in premium worldwide travel for more than 50 years and is regularly voted as one of the most trusted travel brands in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 299 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Scott Dunn, we live and breathe travel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At British Airways Holidays our customers are at the heart of everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 252 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “dnata Travel Group UK B2B encompasses four brands – our flagship brand Gold Medal, and our three specialist brands: Pure Luxury, Cruise Plus and Incredible Journeys.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Shearings is one of the UK’s leading escorted tour operators for the over-55s, offering hotel breaks, resort stays and escorted tours by coach, as well as self-drive holidays and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 170 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Newmarket Holidays is one of the UK’s leading tour operators, based in Wallington, Surrey, providing escorted holidays, resort-based stays and event-based tours to destinations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Elegant Resorts we’re devoted to luxury travel and as experts in the field of tailor-making luxury holidays, our commitment to excellence has served us well for over three…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Travelpack is a distinguished international travel company with a global presence, boasting offices in the UK, India, and Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1993, we've been leading the way in small group touring across the UK and Europe, offering unforgettable experiences, driven by curiosity, that go beyond the guidebooks and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At ITC, it’s our vision to create the most incredible portfolio of personally crafted travel experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 140 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to NUCO Travel, a revolution for the snowsports generation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Macs Adventure is an adventure tour operator on a mission to become the leading global brand in self-guided, active travel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TITAN - PERFECT MOMENTS SHARED Imagine holidays that begin and end at your front door wherever you live in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jacada Travel is a travel company on a mission to create a positive impact around the world through travel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Beachcomber Tours is an independent luxury tour operator with over 33 years’ experience of creating tailor-made holidays for couples and families.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With over two decades of travel experience, Wendy Wu Tours is recognised as a market leader in specialist escorted travel to Asia, Europe and South America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Every Destinology holiday starts the same way: with a conversation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2005, Black Tomato was created to celebrate our belief in the power of travel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 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 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: specialist 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 specialist tour operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of specialist tour operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name specialist 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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Specialist tour operators based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 1,324 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 specialist 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 “specialist 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 specialist 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 specialist 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, 6,372 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.
Specialist tour operators by metro
- Specialist tour operators in London431
- Specialist tour operators in Edinburgh33
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 specialist 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 specialist tour operators are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 1,324 specialist 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?
Audley Travel, headquartered in Witney, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most specialist tour operators?
London leads with 431 headquartered companies, followed by Edinburgh (33) and Manchester (21).
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 6,372 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,324 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 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.
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