The Travel Network Group

What The Travel Network Group does

The Travel Network Group (TTNG) is a UK-based, privately held travel industry consortium and B2B network headquartered in Woking, operating with 51-100 employees. It serves independent travel agencies and tour operators in the UK and Europe by providing centralized services, commercial arrangements, and—most recently—specialized payment infrastructure. The company monetizes through its consortium model, member services, and ownership of acquired agency brands, including the Travel Trust Association (acquired 2016) and Destina Travel (acquired 2020). Its customer base is horizontal across travel agencies, tour operators, and distressed travel businesses requiring rescue capital.

TTNG's core technology offering sits in payment processing for the UK travel trade, delivered through a strategic partnership with Australia-based fintech Mint Payments signed in October 2025. The platform provides multi-currency handling, embedded payment acceptance integrated with booking systems, risk management tools, and Mint Protect—a financial guarantee product shielding agents from chargebacks and supplier failures. Through this partnership, TTNG has secured supplier status within ABTA, the UK's largest travel trade body representing over 4,300 travel brands selling more than £40 billion in holidays annually. The company has also pursued opportunistic consolidation, acquiring Tripsmiths and its subsidiary TS Travel out of administration in May 2026 to absorb African safari and European tour inventory while protecting customer bookings.

TTNG's business model combines consortium member fees and commercial arrangements with payment-referral economics from the Mint relationship and direct revenue from owned/operated travel brands. Its go-to-market leverages the ABTA-affiliated agent network, industry trade publications, and B2B travel consortia channels. The firm has executed a long-running, programmatic acquisition cadence focused on distressed or complementary UK travel assets, suggesting a roll-up-plus-platform strategy. Ownership structure is undisclosed; no parent company, institutional investors, or venture backing has been identified.

Name

The Travel Network Group

Legal name

The Travel Network Group

Website

https://thetravelnetworkgroup.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

The Travel Network Group is a UK-based B2B travel consortium serving independent travel agencies and tour operators, providing member services, payment infrastructure via a Mint Payments partnership, and owned tour-operator brands acquired through roll-up activity.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Travel Trade Network Services

NAICS

Travel Agencies (561510), Tour Operators (561520)

akta.pro primary industry

Travel Payments & Virtual Cards for Corporate Travel (THALAMAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Corporate Travel Payment Orchestration & Routing (Multi-issuer, Multi-rail) (THACAJAD), Corporate Billing, Statements, Chargeback & Dispute Management (THACAJAJ), Payment Solutions for Corporate Travel (Virtual Cards, Lodge Cards, Central Billing) (THAKAMAN)

Keywords

• Travel agency consortium
• Travel trade network
• Payment processing services
• Multi-currency payment handling
• Tour operator support

Headquarters

HQ city

Woking

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

The Travel Network Group operates a UK-based travel agency consortium/network that provides independent travel agencies and tour operators with centralised services, commercial arrangements, operational support, and payment infrastructure. Through its 2025 partnership with Mint Payments, TTNG delivers multi-currency payment processing, embedded payment acceptance integrated with booking systems, and the Mint Protect financial guarantee product that shields agents from chargebacks and supplier failures.

Product overview

The Travel Network Group (TTNG) is a UK-based travel agency consortium/network. TTNG operates as a centralized network providing services, support, and commercial arrangements for independent travel agencies and tour operators. The company has expanded through acquisition, including the purchase of Tripsmiths and its subsidiary TS Travel following their administration. TTNG has partnered with Mint Payments to provide specialized payment solutions to its member agencies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TTNG Travel Network Membership / Consortium Services
• Payment Processing Solutions (via Mint Payments partnership)
• Mint Protect Financial Guarantee

Quantifiable outcome

• Mint Payments processes approximately AUD 3.5 billion in transactions annually in Australia and New Zealand
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Mint PaymentscoreTechnology or Integration · 1 October 2025Mint Payments, an Australia-based travel industry fintech, partnered with The Travel Network Group to expand into the UK travel industry. The partnership offers specialized payment solutions including multi-currency handling, risk management, embedded payment acceptance, and Mint Protect for chargeback and supplier failure protection. Mint Payments processes approximately AUD 3.5 billion in transactions annually in Australia and New Zealand.
• ABTAflagshipTechnology or Integration · 1 October 2025Through the Mint Payments partnership, The Travel Network Group gains access to ABTA's network. ABTA is the UK's largest travel trade body representing over 4,300 travel brands that collectively sell more than GBP 40 billion in holidays annually. The partnership confirms Mint meets ABTA's supplier requirements for experience, expertise, and professional standards.

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Advantage Travel Partnership: UK-based travel agency consortium serving independent agents and tour operators with commercial, marketing, and supplier-negotiated services. Most directly comparable to TTNG as a member-driven UK travel network targeting the same independent agency segment.
• Global Travel Group: UK travel agent consortium providing commercial support, technology, and supplier relationships to a network of independent travel agencies. Direct structural peer to TTNG's consortium model in the same UK market.
• Travel Counsellors: UK-headquartered homeworking travel agency network with hundreds of franchisee counsellors selling leisure and corporate travel. Comparable to TTNG in providing a centralized platform, back-office, and payment infrastructure to independent travel sellers in the UK.
• Conferma Pay: UK-based virtual card and payment technology provider specializing in travel industry payment automation and reconciliation. Closest technology peer to the Mint Payments stack TTNG resells into the UK travel market.

Broad incumbents

• AirPlus International: Lufthansa Group-owned corporate travel payment specialist offering lodge cards, virtual cards, and central billing for corporate travelers. Comparable as a broader incumbent in the same travel-payments category TTNG targets through Mint.
• dnata Travel: Global travel management company (part of Emirates Group) operating leisure and corporate travel businesses with significant UK presence. Comparable as a larger incumbent serving overlapping UK travel agency and tour operator customers.
• American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT): Large global corporate travel management platform with embedded payments, virtual cards, and supplier payments. Comparable as a broad incumbent offering overlapping travel-payment infrastructure, though focused on corporate rather than leisure agencies.
• Corporate Travel Management (CTM): Global corporate travel management provider with embedded payments and supplier settlement capabilities across multiple geographies. Comparable as a broad incumbent in travel payments and TMC services.

Emerging players

• Spotnana: Cloud-based travel platform offering booking, payments, and supplier connectivity as an alternative to legacy TMCs. Comparable as an emerging tech-first travel-payments and booking infrastructure player; however, focuses on corporate travel rather than UK independent agencies.

Others

• WEX Inc. Global commercial payment solutions provider including virtual cards and B2B payments, with exposure to travel vertical. Adjacent to TTNG as an enabling payment infrastructure provider rather than a direct competitor in the UK agency market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TheTNG

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A3 records

Investments

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