Cruise Club UK
Acquisition in 2024
Cruise Club UK is a travel agency specialising in cruise holidays. It offers a comprehensive range of services, including expert advice, exclusive deals, and a user-friendly search function for finding cruises. The company caters to various preferences, providing options for last-minute deals, rivers, cruise lines, and luxury cruises. Additionally, it operates a loyalty rewards program to incentivise repeat customers.
Scott Dunn
Acquisition in 2023
Scott Dunn, founded in 1986 by Andrew Dunn, is a luxury travel company known for providing bespoke holidays and honeymoons tailored to individual preferences. The company offers a diverse range of experiences, including skiing, Mediterranean resorts, safaris, and family vacations, catering to affluent clients seeking unique and high-quality travel experiences. Scott Dunn has established itself as a premium brand in the luxury travel market, recognized for its exceptional service, which garnered it the title of number one specialist tour operator by Condé Nast Traveller in 2014. The company has experienced significant growth in recent years, reflecting the increasing demand for luxury travel among customers in the UK and globally. Andrew Dunn currently serves as President, with Simon Russell as Chief Executive since 2010.
TPConnects
Acquisition in 2022
TPConnects, established in 2012, is a cloud-based travel booking and distribution platform that connects airlines, travel agencies, online travel agencies, and tour operators. It offers an innovative merchandising engine and is the first IATA NDC Dual Level 3 Certified Travel Aggregator for travel agencies and IT provider for airlines. TPConnects enables travel businesses to retail travel products, deliver personalized offers, and create their own packages, including flights, hotels, cars, and activities. The company provides a comprehensive suite of solutions, including Direct Connect for airlines, a Travel Aggregator platform for agents, Leisure Management System, Internet Booking Engine with merchandising capabilities, and Travel Agents Website with BSP Reporting. TPConnects aims to shape the future of travel distribution by empowering businesses to go online with their own website, mobile apps, B2B agent platform, and corporate booking tool at zero initial investment.
Shep’s browser extension-based tool provides travel programs with an easy way to capture employee bookings made on consumer travel sites, messaging employees about the travel policy, while capturing those off-channel bookings for the travel team.
WhereTo
Acquisition in 2020
WhereTo is an artificial intelligence-driven travel platform that focuses on corporate travel bookings and planning. Established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a comprehensive travel management tool that integrates an AI-powered online booking engine with support from a travel agency team. By allowing users to input specific meeting locations or business names, WhereTo's proprietary algorithms take into account real-time commute conditions to provide optimal recommendations for flights, hotels, and cars. This approach enables corporations to customize algorithms to align with their business goals, ultimately leading to an average savings of 30% on travel expenditures. As a subsidiary of Flight Centre Travel Group Limited, WhereTo has garnered partnerships with Fortune 100 companies and recognition from notable publications for its innovative solutions in corporate travel.