Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping travel and hospitality software in the United Kingdom. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
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40 of 754 tracked companies have open roles.
125 of 754 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 204 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 48.0% of disclosed capital, while 83.4% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $27.64M | 34 | 20 |
| 2017 | $269.2M | 40 | 16 |
| 2018 | $170.87M | 38 | 20 |
| 2019 | $264.6M | 44 | 19 |
| 2020 | $97.58M | 39 | 22 |
| 2021 | $760.25M | 28 | 22 |
| 2022 | $301.68M | 23 | 17 |
| 2023 | $132.92M | 20 | 15 |
| 2024 | $269.02M | 7 | 9 |
| 2025 | $126.67M | 7 | 4 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
259 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in travel and hospitality software company rounds since 2016.
Backed by EQT and Atomico and others.
Backed by Kinnevik and Revaia and others.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by Temasek and Citi Ventures and others.
Backed by Temasek and Idinvest Partners.
Backed by Kinnevik and Revaia and others.
Backed by Tiger Global Management and Kinnevik and others.
Backed by Government of France.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by Wise and Merian Global Investors and others.
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 2 reporting entities from 149 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not the United Kingdom market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
None of 2 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
FY2025 · 2 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Travelbook Group ↗07168229 | £4.4m | £0.2m | +3.7% | — | — |
| Aviateworld ↗06745115 | £0.9m | £0.8m | +91.4% | — | — |
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| Industry | Covered / eligible | Revenue total | Median revenue | Net profit / loss | Aggregate margin | Profitable share | Overlap |
|---|
Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.
Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
How the the United Kingdom companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
20 of the 482 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (4.1%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 335,720 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Love Holidaysloveholidays.com | 11,940,959 | 71 | 84.8% |
| Cottagescottages.com | 1,786,855 | 51 | 87.9% |
| Sykes Cottagessykescottages.co.uk | 1,497,780 | 54 | 81.2% |
| holidaycottages.co.ukholidaycottages.co.uk | 1,285,272 | 49 | 80.5% |
| Eviivoeviivo.com | 1,043,676 | 45 | 66.7% |
| Icelollyicelolly.com | 681,221 | 48 | 89.3% |
| Mr & Mrs Smithmrandmrssmith.com | 512,801 | 56 | 54.8% |
| SuperControlsupercontrol.co.uk | 358,997 | 36 | 75.1% |
| CoolStayscoolstays.com | 353,386 | 46 | 85.9% |
| Last Minute Cottageslastminute-cottages.co.uk | 337,982 | 42 | 84.7% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
60 of these companies (12.4%) publish at least one Android app — 87 apps in all, carrying 10.4M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| loveholidays: hotels & flightsLove Holidays | 2.1M | 5 | Travel & Local |
| Sykes Holiday Cottages UKSykes Cottages | 1.8M | 4.5 | Travel & Local |
| Secret Escapes: Hotel & TravelSecret Escapes | 1.4M | — | Travel & Local |
| Holiday SwapHoliday Swap | 1.1M | 3.7 | Travel & Local |
| First Choice Holidays | TravelFirst Choice | 1M | 4.6 | Travel & Local |
| givveGivve | 417.2K | — | Finance |
| GuestAdvisorSabeeApp | 341.9K | 4 | Travel & Local |
| Suits Me - Banking AlternativeSuits Me Card | 292.6K | — | Finance |
| searchforsitessearchforsites.co.uk | 253.7K | — | Travel & Local |
| My OnePayOnePay | 229.4K | 3.6 | Finance |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2024Q1–2026Q2).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online Travel | 63 | 10.3M | loveholidays: hotels & flights 2.1M | |
| Finance & Accounting Tech | 24 | 1.7M | givve 417.2K | |
| Payments | 15 | 1.6M | Suits Me - Banking Alternative 292.6K | |
| Hrtech | 14 | 1.6M | My OnePay 229.4K | |
| Hotel It | 32 | 483K | GuestAdvisor 341.9K | |
| Enterprise Resource Planning | 22 | 452.8K | Mews Digital Key 38.4K |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 75 of 87 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
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Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
24 companies hiring · $1.89B disclosed funding
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Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Loveholidays Online travel agent Loveholidays is preparing to delay an up to £1 billion (RM5.1 billion) London IPO due to the conflict affecting market sentiment and causing travel chaos, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Industry leaders like Mews (which secured a $300 million round) are shifting from simple integration hubs to all-in-one platforms through aggressive product development and acquisitions.
Hospitality technology company ReGuest has acquired digital marketing agencies UP Hotel Agency and Adao to expand its technology‑driven marketing solutions for the hospitality industry.
DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, has advised Stuart McLean and other shareholders of Zonal Retail Data Systems, a leading UK provider of E-POS and hospitality technology solutions, on their exit to Pillar Three Investments Ltd, a company backed by Volaris Group, the technology-focused Canadian private equity investor.
Hartford Creative Group, Inc. (Uplisting) provided the following description of their company for its IPO: “Note: This is NOT an IPO. This is a NASDAQ uplisting from the OTC Markets Group – a public offering of 1.5 million shares at an assumed public offering price of $4.00 – to raise $6 million.
CCM also recently completed the issuance of $900 million in debt
Sun TV Network is acquiring Northern Superchargers Limited, a company registered in London, for a sum amounting to £100.5 million (over ₹1,000 crore).
AccountsIQ, a provider of cloud-based accounting software, has acquired ExpenseIn, an expense management software for invoicing.
The Human Network acquired Beyond Business Travel
In 2022, investment from Averroes Capital enabled the acquisition of Premier Software, as well as the expansion of an organic growth strategy.
Top 10 categories among 127 recorded events in the 24-month window.
2 companies with recorded IPO activity
IPO · London4 reports
Follow-on Offering · NASDAQ1 reports
15 tracked people moves
Appointment Chief Operating Officer
Departure Previously Chief Operating Officer
Resignation Previously Co-founder
Appointment VP of land
Appointment Senior Advisor
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Retirement Previously Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Chief Executive Officer (acting)
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Travel API service
Property management system enhancement
AI data entry tool for travel companies
2 recorded customer wins
Customer: hiltonHospitality
Customer: hyattHospitality
3 recorded events
investigation underwayHome Office
cancelled licenseSecurities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
licenses reinstatedSecurities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| reguest→UP Hotel Agency ↗ | Announced | 2026-03-10 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Pillar Three Investments Ltd→Zonal ↗ | 2026-02-23 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| volaris group→Zonal ↗ | Announced | 2026-02-04 | Not stated in snapshot |
| flight centre→Iglu ↗ | Completed | 2025-12-23 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Mews→Na | Completed | 2025-11-13 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Mews→flexkeeping | Announced | 2025-10-03 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
14 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 203-posting snapshot covers 121 employers.
7 tracked postings mention remote work.
56 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 203 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 66 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| Northern ↗ | 7,000 |
| Eurostar ↗ | 1,433 |
| Awaze ↗ | 743 |
| Secret Escapes ↗ | 650 |
| The Plum Guide ↗ | 158 |
| Audley Travel ↗ | 138 |
| Houst ↗ | 133 |
| Conferma ↗ | 86 |
340 founders and chief executives across 259 companies.
Ex- The Emblem Hotel, Hilton Worldwide, Hilton Prague & Hilton Prague Old Town. Hotelschool The Hague 2004
Groupe Keolis, SNCF
CEO Endource, CruiseLineFans, DMC Digital. Griffith University BA 2001
Ex-ClearScore, Vanquis Bank, Deloitte, Commonwealth Bank. Macquarie University BCom
Ex-Fly Now Pay Later, Fluid Creativity, Digibrand
Ex-Co-Founder & Managing Director Promise Communispace, Co-Founder Symbiosis Events. The London School of Economics and Political Science BSc 2003
MD(Germany) at Secret Escapes. ex-Bain&Company. PhD, University of Cambridge 2008
Ex-Intel. The Open University of Israel BS 2000, Tel Aviv University MSc 2006
Co-Founder Travel Curious · Ex-Travelvrse, Travel Curious, Touriocity · Trinity College Dublin BA 2005, European School of Economics MBA 2008
ex-Wild China, Hanuman Travel, Audley Travel, Starbucks. The University of Birmingham 1998
Ex-VML, MercerBell, Freeman London. St Marys University London BBA 2004
Ex- Founder 500 Startups, Meltwater, Smith & Williamson, The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. The University of Birmingham BA 2010
38 profiles with education records.
5 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
Compare demand signals in the United Kingdom’s newsflow with the travel and hospitality software categories mapped to each signal.
Signal percentile − supply percentile = gap in percentile points. Positive gaps highlight questions to investigate. A high signal can reflect spending pressure or access friction, as well as potential demand.
The comparison is relative to the signal families on this page. A supply percentile of zero means the lowest relative reading, not zero companies. It is a prioritisation clue, not measured market size or unmet demand.
Signal and mapped-supply percentiles, their gap, and change in the signal’s article share.
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| Signal family | Signal percentile | Supply percentile | Relative gap | Gap (points) | Signal share vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inflation & spending pressure ↗Spending Pressure | 66.7 | 12.5 | +54.2 | +23.0% | |
| Highways & expressways ↗Connectivity Build-Out | 41.7 | 12.5 | +29.2 | -2.1% | |
| Layoffs & income shocks ↗Spending Pressure | 100.0 | 75.0 | +25.0 | +37.0% | |
| Airports & air links ↗Connectivity Build-Out | 41.7 | 50.0 | -8.3 | +27.3% | |
| Tourism footfall ↗Demand Driver | 41.7 | 100.0 | -58.3 | +11.3% | |
| Rail & metro connectivity ↗Connectivity Build-Out | 58.3 | — | No matching category | — | +30.4% |
| E-commerce & quick delivery ↗Channel Shift | 0.0 | — | No matching category | — | -4.0% |
Showing all 7 signals. Select a family for its history and mapped categories.
All 12 city readings for these demand families in the comparison geography. the United Kingdom is highlighted.
Each city’s reading is a share of its own coverage.
Layoffs & income shocks · Inflation & spending pressure · Highways & expressways
Highways & expressways · Layoffs & income shocks · Tourism footfall
Highways & expressways · Layoffs & income shocks · Tourism footfall
Airports & air links · Rail & metro connectivity · Tourism footfall
Highways & expressways · Layoffs & income shocks · Tourism footfall
Inflation & spending pressure · Layoffs & income shocks · Tourism footfall
Layoffs & income shocks · Highways & expressways · Tourism footfall
Inflation & spending pressure · Layoffs & income shocks · Tourism footfall
Highways & expressways · Tourism footfall · Layoffs & income shocks
Layoffs & income shocks · Highways & expressways · Tourism footfall
Layoffs & income shocks · Highways & expressways · Tourism footfall
Layoffs & income shocks · Rail & metro connectivity · Highways & expressways
Sustained price pressure can shift spending toward value formats.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 402 | 18.16 |
| 2024Q4 | 419 | 19.34 |
| 2025Q1 | 465 | 18.39 |
| 2025Q2 | 458 | 22.66 |
| 2025Q3 | 539 | 22.27 |
| 2025Q4 | 422 | 24.28 |
| 2026Q1 | 504 | 25.41 |
| 2026Q2 | 226 | 25.22 |
Corridor build-out can collapse travel time, widening every catchment.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 238 | 10.75 |
| 2024Q4 | 267 | 12.32 |
| 2025Q1 | 235 | 9.29 |
| 2025Q2 | 220 | 10.88 |
| 2025Q3 | 236 | 9.75 |
| 2025Q4 | 144 | 8.28 |
| 2026Q1 | 237 | 11.95 |
| 2026Q2 | 124 | 13.84 |
Layoff cycles can pull discretionary spend back toward value offerings.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 414 | 18.7 |
| 2024Q4 | 385 | 17.77 |
| 2025Q1 | 570 | 22.55 |
| 2025Q2 | 428 | 21.18 |
| 2025Q3 | 663 | 27.39 |
| 2025Q4 | 400 | 23.01 |
| 2026Q1 | 634 | 31.96 |
| 2026Q2 | 243 | 27.12 |
If new terminals and routes pull business and tourist inflow, demand tends to follow the passenger.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 44 | 1.99 |
| 2024Q4 | 67 | 3.09 |
| 2025Q1 | 104 | 4.11 |
| 2025Q2 | 73 | 3.61 |
| 2025Q3 | 152 | 6.28 |
| 2025Q4 | 69 | 3.97 |
| 2026Q1 | 46 | 2.32 |
| 2026Q2 | 22 | 2.46 |
Visitor flows can convert into discretionary spend where they land.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 163 | 7.36 |
| 2024Q4 | 166 | 7.66 |
| 2025Q1 | 175 | 6.92 |
| 2025Q2 | 198 | 9.8 |
| 2025Q3 | 258 | 10.66 |
| 2025Q4 | 161 | 9.26 |
| 2026Q1 | 146 | 7.36 |
| 2026Q2 | 51 | 5.69 |
Where rail and metro build out, station-area demand can follow the footfall.
This signal has no matching category in the page’s travel and hospitality software market map, so no supply percentile or gap is assigned.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 120 | 5.42 |
| 2024Q4 | 110 | 5.08 |
| 2025Q1 | 97 | 3.84 |
| 2025Q2 | 70 | 3.46 |
| 2025Q3 | 143 | 5.91 |
| 2025Q4 | 80 | 4.6 |
| 2026Q1 | 125 | 6.3 |
| 2026Q2 | 60 | 6.7 |
Online and quick-commerce adoption can migrate spend across channels faster than networks adapt.
This signal has no matching category in the page’s travel and hospitality software market map, so no supply percentile or gap is assigned.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 74 | 3.34 |
| 2024Q4 | 71 | 3.28 |
| 2025Q1 | 44 | 1.74 |
| 2025Q2 | 49 | 2.42 |
| 2025Q3 | 72 | 2.97 |
| 2025Q4 | 42 | 2.42 |
| 2026Q1 | 43 | 2.17 |
| 2026Q2 | 23 | 2.57 |
the United Kingdom travel and hospitality software coverage
Journal of Transport and Land Use
102 citations in the snapshot
Current Issues in Tourism
57 citations in the snapshot
Work Employment and Society
50 citations in the snapshot
Sustainability
45 citations in the snapshot
the United Kingdom coverage of this page's demand families
| Keyword | Recent articles | Prior articles | Share change |
|---|
Share changes describe coverage in the stated comparison periods, not search demand or market size.
Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.
82.2% across the displayed hubs
25 companies hiring · $2.8B disclosed funding
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5.8% across the displayed hubs
1 companies hiring · $20.8M disclosed funding
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3.3% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $21.7M disclosed funding
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2.5% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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1.8% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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1.5% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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1.5% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $10.0M disclosed funding
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1.5% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $19.9M disclosed funding
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