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Top 25 Travel guide and publishing companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 94 travel guide and publishing companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 893 professional contacts across them, including 244 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers travel guide and publishing companies 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 travel guide and publishing companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Real Response Media is a multimedia publishing company founded in 2011 and based in North London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The UK's leading independent guidebook publisher, Bradt Travel Guides has a reputation for being a pioneer in tackling ‘unusual’ destinations and for the high quality of its…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1990, Summersdale is a vibrant publisher that puts its heart and soul into creating exceptional books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cicerone are award-winning publishers of nearly 400 guidebooks for walkers, trekkers, mountaineers, climbers and cyclists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Amber Books Ltd is an illustrated non-fiction publisher and book packaging company based in north London, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Insight Guides connects travelers with carefully selected local experts who design and arrange tailor-made trips around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Precision Media Group, we specialise in crafting premium luxury guides - both in print and digital formats, that elevate brand presence and drive engagement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kingfisher Visitor Guides produce beautifully-designed, high-quality A4 visitor guides, which are available in leading hotels in major cities and regions across the UK and Ireland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Yandell Publishing has a stable of market-leading magazines, directories and annuals that are loved and valued by both our readers and advertisers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In April 2017, My Guide was unveiled as the new brand name for the award winning global online guide network started in 2007 and known previously as My Destination.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In every corner of the globe there are Highly Individual Places to stay.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Publishers of Selling Travel, The Business Travel Magazine, Onboard Hospitality, Selling Canada, Visit USA Association's Visit USA Travel Planner, Your Caribbean, The Thailand…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Columbus Travel Media is one of the most respected names in the global travel industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Independent magazine publishing company based outside Oxford, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lodestars Anthology is an independent magazine-meets-journal for curious travellers who long to be inspired, see the world and meet interesting characters along the road.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Find and buy books about living abroad, written by expats and nomads who live overseas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Scala specialises in producing illustrated books for museums, galleries, libraries, cathedrals, heritage sites and educational institutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The best-researched, best-presented cultural guide books in the English language, published continuously since 1918:"designed for the traveller who desires to understand more…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Unrivaled experience; inspirational thought leadership Our extensive experience in the travel and lifestyle sector coupled with an award-winning editorial team combines to offer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Heartwood publishes PopOut Maps and Marco Polo Travel Guides in English.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Travel Beans is a media and travel company founded by successful YouTubers Alex Collins and Emma Cox.” 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 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 94 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 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom 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. 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, 244 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 metro
- Travel guide and publishing companies in London43
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 based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 94 travel guide and publishing companies 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?
APL Media Limited, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most travel guide and publishing companies?
London leads with 43 headquartered companies, followed by Bath (3) and Cambridge (2).
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 244 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 94 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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