Festival Travel

What Festival Travel does

Festival Travel B.V. is a privately held Dutch travel company founded in 2009 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It operates a specialized e-commerce platform (festival.travel) that sells official festival tickets, transportation, accommodation, and insurance as bundled vacation packages for European music festivals. Its core festival partners include Sziget Festival (Budapest, Hungary), Electric Castle (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), and Parookaville (Weeze, Germany), and it serves festival-goers primarily in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, and Romania.

The company's product portfolio consists of official festival tickets, festival bus services (including the Sziget Bus from the Netherlands and Belgium), the Sziget Express train product (operated in partnership with Interrail as a sustainable travel option), and Allianz-branded travel and cancellation insurance. Festival Travel aggregates these components into customizable festival vacation packages via its website, leveraging Paylogic as its core ticketing infrastructure partner and maintaining distribution alliances with Festileaks, Kink, and Interrail for content and audience reach. Pricing is unit-based and transactional, with ticket prices starting at €49 for entry-level festival access and additional revenue generated per booking through transport, accommodation, and insurance add-ons.

The business model combines transaction-fee revenue from ticket and add-on sales with bundled package sales across the European festival travel season. Festival Travel is operationally lean, with a reported 9 employees, and serves a long-tail of individual consumers rather than enterprise accounts — the company cites over 165,000 lifetime travelers, 16 years of operating history, and an 8.8/10 customer review rating as markers of its niche position in the European festival travel market.

Name

Festival Travel

Legal name

Festival Travel B.V.

Website

https://festival.travel

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Festival Travel B.V. is a Dutch e-commerce platform, founded in 2009, that bundles official tickets, transport, accommodation, and insurance into packaged vacation experiences for European music festival-goers across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, and Romania.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Festival Travel & Tourism Services

NAICS

Tour Operators (561520)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Concerts & Music Festivals (THAJAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Escorted Coach & Bus Package Tour Operators (THAKADAA), Rail Journey Package Tour Operators (THAKADAN)

Keywords

• Festival travel packages
• Music festival tickets
• Event travel booking
• Festival tourism services
• Concert travel packages

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Festival Ticket Sales: Festival Travel sells official tickets to European festivals including Sziget, Electric Castle, and Parookaville as a primary revenue stream.
2. Travel Packages: Bundled travel and accommodation packages including bus travel, train travel (Sziget Express), and hotel options around festival venues.
3. Festival Add-ons: Additional services such as parking, insurance, and other festival-related add-ons sold alongside tickets and travel packages.
4. Insurance Products: Travel and cancellation insurance products offered through partnership with Allianz, providing additional revenue per booking.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Festival Travel sells official tickets and travel packages for major European music festivals such as Sziget, Electric Castle, and Parookaville. Its offerings combine festival tickets with bus travel, train travel (Sziget Express), hotel accommodations, and optional travel insurance through Allianz. The company operates its own e-commerce platform to serve individual festival-goers across Europe.

Product overview

Festival Travel operates a platform for booking complete festival vacations in Europe. The core offering consists of official festival tickets (Sziget Festival, Parookaville, Electric Castle) combined with travel options including bus transport (Sziget Bus) and train services (Sziget Express). Optional add-ons include travel and cancellation insurance through their partnership with Allianz. The platform allows customers to assemble customized festival trips combining multiple products and services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Festival Tickets (Sziget, Electric Castle, Parookaville) Official tickets to major European music festivals such as Sziget, Electric Castle, and Parookaville, sold directly to individual festival attendees through the company's e-commerce platform.
• Festival Bus Travel Coordinated bus travel packages to European music festivals, sold to individuals and groups as part of an integrated festival travel offering.
• Sziget Express (Train Travel) Train travel service to Sziget Festival, integrated with the company's ticket and accommodation bundles and operated in partnership with Interrail.
• Festival Hotel Packages Hotel accommodation packages bundled with festival tickets and transport, offered to festival-goers seeking combined booking convenience.
• Festival Travel Insurance Optional travel insurance covering festival trips, offered in partnership with Allianz and available as an add-on to ticket and travel packages.

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• InterrailminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorInterrail partnership allowing customers to combine Interrail passes with festival travel packages.
• PaylogiccoreTechnology or IntegrationTicket platform partner providing ticketing infrastructure for festival events.
• KinkminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartner organization in the festival travel ecosystem.
• FestileaksminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFestival media partner for content and audience reach.
• Sziget FestivalcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOfficial partner of Sziget Festival, providing guaranteed authentic tickets and exclusive travel packages.
• AllianzcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOfficial insurance partner providing travel and cancellation insurance products for festival bookings.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Ticketmaster: Global live-event ticketing leader with significant European festival coverage. Competes with Festival Travel for first-party ticket sale relationships with festivals and end-customer mindshare.
• See Tickets: European-focused ticketing platform serving festivals and live events. Comparable in the official ticketing layer where Festival Travel competes and partners for inventory.
• Eventim: Largest European ticketing operator with broad live-entertainment coverage. Comparable as a ticket distribution incumbent that competes for official festival partnerships and end-customer ticket purchasing in the same European markets.
• GetYourGuide: Global marketplace for tours, attractions, and experiences. Comparable as a consumer-facing experience-booking platform; overlaps in the festival/experience discovery and booking flow for European travelers.
• Viagogo: Major secondary ticketing marketplace active across European festivals. Indirect competitor for festival ticket demand, particularly around sold-out flagship events like Sziget and Electric Castle.
• Viator: Experiences and tours marketplace owned by Tripadvisor. Comparable in the broader tours-and-experiences booking category, competing for European festival traveler wallet share.

Direct peers

• Festicket: UK-based festival travel platform that bundles festival tickets with travel, accommodation, and add-ons across European music festivals. Directly comparable to Festival Travel in product offering, target customer, and bundled-trip model.
• TourRadar: Online marketplace for multi-day guided tours and packaged travel experiences. Comparable in bundling transportation, accommodation, and experiences into single bookings, albeit with a broader (non-festival) focus.

Others

• Interrail / Eurail: European rail pass provider and existing Festival Travel partner. Comparable as an enabler of festival travel (Sziget Express) and a potential alternative channel for festival-goer transportation demand.

Regional players

• Festileaks: Dutch/Benelux festival media platform. Comparable as a content/audience partner and audience-overlap competitor in the same regional festival-goer segment Festival Travel targets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/festivaltravel
• Instagraminstagram.com/festival.travel
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/festival-travel

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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