Trends · data through July 2026

Travel Services in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 290 stores from 241 travel services chains in the United Kingdom. Cabana grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Barrhead Travel and TUI Holiday Store.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
241
Tracked stores
290
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked travel services chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Cabana and Barrhead Travel sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cabana - +8.9%
2 B Barrhead Travel ▲1 +5.5%
3 T TUI Holiday Store - -3.4%
4 V Virgin Atlantic logo Virgin Atlantic - -6.1%
5 T The Co-operative Travel - -13.1%
6 H Hays Travel ▼1 -13.2%
7 M Mersey Ferries - -16.8%
  • TUI Holiday Store
  • Southeastern
  • Barrhead Travel
  • Hays Travel
  • VFS Global
  • Dawson & Sanderson
  • Virgin Atlantic
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

290 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • TUI Holiday Store (18)
  • Southeastern (11)
  • Barrhead Travel (3)
  • Hays Travel (4)
  • VFS Global (2)
  • Dawson & Sanderson (1)
  • Virgin Atlantic (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 T TUI Holiday Store 18
  • 2 S Southeastern 11
  • 3 H Hays Travel 4
  • 4 T The Co-operative Travel 4
  • 5 B Barrhead Travel 3
  • 6 V Virgin Atlantic logo Virgin Atlantic 3
  • 7 C Cabana 3
  • 8 M Mersey Ferries 3
  • 9 N National Express West Midlands 3
  • 10 P Premier Travel 2
  • 11 B Broadway Travel 2
  • 12 T Thames Clippers 2
  • 13 P Portavadie 2
  • 14 U Unity Link 2
  • 15 V VFS Global logo VFS Global 2
  • 16 A Aldgate London 1
  • 17 C Clacton 1
  • 18 T Trafalgar 1
  • 19 L Leisure Creations 1
  • 20 C Coach Services 1
  • 21 D Dawson & Sanderson 1
  • 22 B Box Office 1
  • 23 S Shivam Tours Ltd 1
  • 24 R Rotherham Eastwood 1
  • 25 S St Clare 1
  • 26 T TUI Bangor 1
  • 27 L London Overground Rail Operations 1
  • 28 C Cavern City Tours Ltd 1
  • 29 D Dews Coaches 1
  • 30 D Discover Carlisle 1
  • 31 J Just Caribbean 1
  • 32 W Waiting Room - Fareham Station 1
  • 33 F Forest Holidays Blackwood Forest 1
  • 34 H Haj & Umra 1
  • 35 T The Holiday Store 1
  • 36 G Great Hall Trafford Centre 1
  • 37 A About Great Yarmouth 1
  • 38 P Penzance Heliport 1
  • 39 S Short Ferry Caravan Park 1
  • 40 T The Travel Shop 1
  • 41 G Gold Medal Travel Group 1
  • 42 B Bocking Travel 1
  • 43 C Cruise Loch Lomond Ltd 1
  • 44 G glistrr 1
  • 45 C Castleford Lock 1
  • 46 G Globe Holidays 1
  • 47 K Kendal Street 1
  • 48 L Leicestershire Aero Club 1
  • 49 A Abbotsbury Tourism 1
  • 50 C Cardiff Travelz Ltd 1

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