Mark Anderson
This article showcases our top picks for the best English Travel companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Travel industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top English Travel Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Fly Now Pay Later
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Fly Now Pay Later is a fintech company that helps consumers spread the cost of their travel over a flexible duration.
Zeelo
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Zeelo is the smart bus platform for organizations, providing flexible turn-key, plug-in and SaaS transportation programs.
Selina
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Selina is a fast-growing hospitality brand built for today’s nomadic traveler to help them live, work, and explore anywhere in the world.
Pollen
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Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.
Mews
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Mews is an innovative hospitality management cloud platform that empowers the modern hotelier to provide remarkable guest experiences.
Culture Trip
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Culture Trip is a travel e-commerce brand with content at its core
Duffel
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Duffel provides an online platform that allows users to search, book, and manage flights from multiple airlines.
Secret Escapes
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Secret Escapes is a members-only travel club offering discounted rates on luxury hotels and holidays in the UK.
Skyports
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Skyports is an urban air mobility infrastructure provider and drone delivery operator for aviation and managing end to end drone deliveries.
SKOOT
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SKOOT is a new Carbon Negative carpooling app connecting friends / colleagues and communities improving mobility for all
Splyt
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Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.
The Plum Guide
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The Plum Guide is building a marketplace of the world’s best holiday homes.
Velocity Black
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Pioneering the future of luxury lifestyle.
Hiyacar
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Hiyacar is a UK peer to peer car sharing platform.
Triptease
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Triptease is a travel SaaS company that empowers hotels to recapture guest relationships and increase direct bookings.
onefinestay
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Onefinestay give people a new way to experience a place staying in the finest homes in their favorite cities.
Easol
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The all-in-one platform to manage your entire experience business, on your terms.
Fornova
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Fornova empowers hotels to optimise revenue and distribution while reducing costs and improving forecasting.
SilverRail Technologies
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SilverRail offers best-in-class technical solutions that help railways and travel distributors easily connect with each other.
Victor
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Victor is a London, UK-based private jet charter marketplace.
Eurostar International
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Eurostar International is a high speed train that directly links the UK to France and Belgium via the channel tunnel.
Butter.co.uk
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Butter lets you spread the cost of shopping from any online store with a simple monthly instalment plan. Download the app now!
OneTwoTrip
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OneTwoTrip is a full scale b2c and b2b online travel service.
YETiCO
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We build software for card machines that solves real world problems.
Stasher
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Stasher is the world’s first luggage storage network.
Yotel
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Yotel offers affordable hotels with elements of luxury in smart spaces.
Byway Travel
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Byway Travel provides slow travel trips that take the scenic route to local stays, off-the-beaten path experiences.
Connexin
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Connexin specialises in award winning Fibre Optic and Voice Services.
Much Better Adventures
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Much Better Adventures helps people organize their skiing, cycling, or road biking holiday directly with specialist independent operators.
HouseTrip
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HouseTrip is an online marketplace enabling individuals and holiday rental management companies to rent out their properties to guests.
AirPortr
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AirPortr is a Software and Service company developing and delivering innovative baggage services for passengers, airlines and airports.
Travel Curious
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A travel technology company that provides ‘private tours and activities as a service’ to hospitality and travel companies globally
SalesTrip
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Expense management and travel booking system on Salesforce. Better track and justify expense spend with SalesTrip.
WeSwap
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WeSwap is a mobile application that allows users to swap different types of currency with others.
Pluto
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The home of all your travel plans. Discover, organise and protect your trips, all in one place.
LuckyTrip
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LuckyTrip is a travel inspiration app that lets you find a trip in one tap.
Tab
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We’re revolutionising the way travellers discover, plan and book a trip.
HalalBooking
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World’s No1 search website for halal-conscious travelers
HotelRunner
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SaaS enabled B2B network for accommodations and travel agencies to find, contract, connect, and transact with each other online.
Abellio
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Abellio delivers rail and bus services to passengers in Scotland, England, and Germany.
Hotelmize
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Hotelmize is a Fintech-travel start-up that uses high-end technology to solve some of the huge challenges of the evolving travel industry.
AltoVita
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Award-winning enterprise software layered with a human-centric approach to power the flexible rentals market sector.
tripAbrood
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tripAbrood is an AI-driven travel platform for families to discover and book holidays.
Staykeepers
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Prop-tech platform providing incremental revenue for institutional landlords & their-residents.
Rocco Forte Hotels
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Rocco Forte Hotels is a luxurious high end hotel chain.
Wevat
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Wevat is the best way to get your tax back on shopping in the UK.
Snaptrip
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Snaptrip is a marketplace for people to discover the best last minute cottage holiday deals in the UK.
Luxtripper
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Luxtripper is a luxury travel company that operates an online travel booking site which matches users with suitable holiday destinations.
TravelTime Technologies
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Technology that can map, rank and sort location based data by travel time instead of distance. Available as an API or analytics plugins.
Beeline
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Smart navigation, made simple. For a global community of adventurers
VizEat
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VizEat is a European startup that operates a “social dining platform.
minicabit
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Smart marketplace to connect customers & business with all types of cab service providers of today and those in the mobility future
Love Home Swap
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Love Home Swap is a home-swapping website enabling members to exchange and rent homes.
Ubio
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Ubio provide direct booking capabilities for travel metasearch websites and apps.
WAYN
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WAYN is a travel and lifestyle-based social network enabling users to meet like-minded people.
Battersea Power Station
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Battersea Power Station is a travel and tourism company.
Sweep
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Sweep is building the first end-to-end travel & expenses management system for European SME’s.
easyGuide
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Discover and book tickets to top attractions, activities, experiences, tours and theatre shows in your favourite locations around the world!
Festicket
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Festicket is a marketplace to discover and book music festival tickets, accommodation, transfers and extras.
Everyman Media Group
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Everyman is an independent cinema group in terms of cinema venues, screens and admissions.
golfscape
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The only worldwide golf reservations platform and course operations technology infrastructure
Wizme
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Wizme makes meetings and events management magical through superior ease of use and smart technologies.
Faredirect
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Faredirect is helping airlines to build and scale ancillary revenues.
Troubadour Goods
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Troubadour Goods is a menswear fashion brand
Bakuun.com
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Transforming and sharing the hotels’ inventories
Road.Travel
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The 1st Global Curated Routes Ecosystem for Sustainable Car Travels and Safe In-Car Experience for Travellers
ACHICA
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ACHICA is an online members-only lifestyle store offering luxury brands at discounted prices.
Key Travel
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Key Travel is a travel management company that offers its services to NGO, academic, and faith sectors.
UnderTheDoormat
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Our mission is to redefine the future of accommodation.
AVUXI
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Ranking the popularity of every place on Earth. Makers of TopPlace™ – the leading plug-n-play GeoPopularity engine with Worldwide coverage.
incrediblue
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incrediblue is a U.K.-based online marketplace for boat rentals that helps travelers plan their rides in advance.
thesqua.re
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Inventive corporate serviced apartments provider with loyalty programme, all-in-one online accounts, community events and concierge app.
British Airways
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British Airways provides international and domestic scheduled air services for the carriage of passengers and cargo.
Big Bus Tours
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Big Bus Tours is a global operator of premium open-top sightseeing tours.
Grapevine
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Grapevine is an AI-powered digital concierge providing tools to increase ancillary attachment rates and capture in-destination revenues.
The Thinking Traveller
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The Thinking Traveller is a multiple award-winning villa rental company specialising in luxury villas.
Edge Retreats
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The global curated marketplace for luxury villa rentals, with exceptional service and expert concierge
SkiYodl
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SkiYodl is a platform that allows its users to search and book their ski trips in real-time.
Esplorio
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Esplorio uses social data and our iOS app to create a digital travel journal that you can use to re-live and share your adventures.
Timescenery
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All-in-One Trip Planner and Marketplace – the next stage in travel tech after metasearch | Plug and Play 2017
the Bike Club
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the Bike Club is a platform that offers pay monthly kids bikes that are exchanged as children grow up.
Journee
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Exciting trips. Matched to you. Without the admin.
Veeve
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Characterful homes. Dedicated service. Memorable stays.
Down-Route
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Down-Route is a unique, revolutionary app which combines expense management and hotel booking in one place.
Pop & Rest
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Our platform connects local workers and travellers with sleep & meditation pods. Book by the hour to recharge
YMCA East London
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Provides support & accommodation to young homeless people.
Chic Retreats
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A luxury travel marketplace using the latest in digital technology to connect our collection of independent hotels to affluent travellers
TransferTravel.com
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TransferTravel.com operates as a global peer to peer travel marketplace.
Trainline
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Trainline is the world’s leading independent digital rail platform.
Parabis Group
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Parabis Group provides legal solutions for insurance, travel, and other related industries.
eRevMax
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Leader in hotel channel management, rate shopping, business intelligence and booking engine solutions
Firefly Experience (Firef.ly)
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Illuminating Journeys. Firef.ly is a mobile app which distils trip planning, guiding and journalling into a beautiful experience.
GTA
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GTA provides ground travel products and services to the fully independent travel industry.
Nightset
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Nightset is a nightlife marketplace that connects people, venues, and brands on one platform globally.
Family Traveller
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Family Traveller is a multi-platform brand operating across familytraveller.com, social media and email.
