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Company description
TRAVEL COUNSELLORS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 20 May 1987; registered for 39 years; registered office reported in MANCHESTER, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 79110 · Travel agency activities.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 1 trade mark, 1 procurement record. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- TRAVEL COUNSELLORS LIMITED
- Company number
- 02133414
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 26 total · 1 outstanding · 25 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 October 2025Next accounts due
31 July 2027Last statement made up to
14 September 2025Next statement due
28 September 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 November 2025 – 30 April 2026
- Filed
- 28 May 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 November 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £152,182,325
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £9,432,741
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £253,009
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £72,634,996
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 13.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 3.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
Late receipt of supplier statements can lead to late payments.
Supplier Payment Disputes includes payments disputed directly with suppliers but also includes internal disputes with franchisees as these cannot be differentiated in reporting
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The majority of suppliers require payment 15 days after we receive a statement, usually on the 1st of each month, so the payment rule is end of month plus 15. Some suppliers require payment 30 days after receipt of a statement.
Some products require immediate payment at the time of booking (e.g. Low Cost Carriers), others are paid after travel. Airline tickets are paid weekly via IATA/BSP - Dispute resolution process
Disputes are sent in the first instance via email to suppliers and we work with them and franchisees for a swift resolution
Earlier payment reports (9 shown)
- 29.0 average days to pay65.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay74.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay84.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay82.0% outside terms
- 10.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 9.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
04 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
TRAVEL COUNSELLORS LIMITED
LEI 549300R4KZ24VQBXI536 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 20 May 1987
- Initial LEI registration
- 26 February 2014
- LEI last updated
- 23 November 2025
- Next renewal
- 20 January 2027
- Managing LOU
- 529900T8BM49AURSDO55
- Other legal names
- TRAVEL COUNSELLORS PLC; DAVID SPEAKMAN TRAVEL LIMITED; INCENTIVE, MEDIA & BUSINESS TRAVEL LIMITED
- Legal address
- Venus No.1 Old Park Lane, Trafford City, Manchester, GB-MAN, M41 7HA, GB
- Headquarters address
- Venus No1 Old Park Lane, Trafford City, Manchester, GB-MAN, M41 7HA, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Travel Counsellors Limited
Registration Z8195301
- Registered from
- 25 September 2003
- Current end date
- 24 September 2026
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Travel Counsellors Group Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- Uk
- Legal authority
- Company Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies Houes
- Registration number
- 5502127
- Notified
- 31 July 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
1 procurement process linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.