What ZIP Travel International does

ZIP Travel International (ZipTravel) is a privately held Bulgarian online travel agency operating from Sofia, Bulgaria, at Green Park Business Center, with a staff of approximately 13. It sells travel packages to individual Bulgarian consumers, covering excursions, vacations, cruises, and destination trips to Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, and Italy. The company is reachable at +359890200491 and has no disclosed ownership, investors, or parent entity.

The core product is the ziptravel.bg booking platform, organized around merchandising modules including Individual Offer (Индивидуална Оферта) custom quotes, Selected Offers (Избрани Оферти), Promotions (Промоции), New Offers (Нови Оферти), Excursions (Екскурзии), Destinations (Дестинации), Vacations (Почивки), and Cruises (Круизи). Supporting surfaces include a ZipTravel mobile app for iOS/Android and a blog at blog.ziptravel.bg covering the four served destinations. The platform functions as a packaged-travel reseller with a quote-based pricing model rather than a true OTA with proprietary inventory.

Commercially, ZipTravel runs a direct-to-consumer, single-country (Bulgaria) GTM via its own website, generating transaction-fee revenue on travel package sales. No enterprise or B2B customers, partnerships, certifications, patents, or management-team disclosures are present in the source data. The site references EU project BGLD-1.007-0067 ("Introduction of an innovative method for stimulating economic activity and job creation"), indicating participation in a publicly funded program, but no further details are disclosed.

Name

ZIP Travel International

Legal name

ZIP Travel International

Website

https://ziptravel.bg

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ZIP Travel International is a privately held Bulgarian online travel agency in Sofia that sells excursion, vacation, cruise, and destination packages to individual consumers in Bulgaria, with coverage across Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, and Italy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Travel Agency

NAICS

Travel Agencies (56151), Tour Operators (561520)

SIC

Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

Cruise Retail Travel Agencies (THAKABAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Adventure & Active Travel Agencies (THAKABAD)

Keywords

• Travel package booking
• Excursion reservations
• Vacation packages
• Cruise bookings
• Destination travel

Headquarters

HQ city

Sofia

HQ country

Bulgaria

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Travel Package Sales: ZipTravel generates revenue through selling travel packages including excursions, vacations, cruises, and destination travel services to individual consumers in Bulgaria.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

ZIP Travel International operates a Bulgarian online travel agency platform that sells packaged travel services directly to individual consumers. Offerings include guided excursions, vacation packages, cruise bookings, and destination travel across Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, and Italy, complemented by a mobile app and a custom "Individual Offer" request feature for personalized trip quotes.

Product overview

ZIP Travel International operates a Bulgarian online travel booking platform offering a unified travel marketplace. The core platform (ZipTravel Website Platform) enables users to browse and book various travel services including excursions, vacations, cruises, and destination packages. Supporting sub-products include Individual Offer (Индивидуална Оферта) for customized travel requests, Selected Offers (Избрани Оферти) for curated deals, Promotions (Промоции) for special offers, and New Offers (Нови Оферти) for recently added deals. The company also provides a mobile application (ZipTravel Mobile App) and maintains a content platform (ZipTravel Blog) covering travel destinations in Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, and Italy.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ZipTravel Online Travel Booking Platform Central online booking platform (ziptravel.bg) that allows Bulgarian consumers to browse and book excursions, vacations, cruises, and destination packages across Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, and Italy.
• ZipTravel Mobile App Mobile application for iOS/Android that gives users on-the-go access to ZipTravel travel bookings, offers, and account functions.
• Excursion Bookings Standalone guided tour and excursion booking service for Bulgarian consumers, covering packaged excursions across the agency's destination portfolio.
• Vacation Packages Packaged vacation bookings covering leisure trips to Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, and Italy, sold as curated bundles rather than à la carte components.
• Cruise Bookings Standalone cruise package booking service offered to Bulgarian consumers through the ZipTravel website.
• Individual Travel Quote (Индивидуална Оферта) Customized travel quote service that lets users request a personalized itinerary and pricing rather than selecting a fixed package.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Airtours Bulgaria / other local Bulgarian OTAs: Local Bulgarian travel agencies and online platforms offering similar packaged tours, cruises, and vacation deals. Direct domestic competitors competing with ZipTravel for the same Bulgarian outbound leisure traveler.
• Balkantourist: Bulgaria's largest traditional tour operator offering packaged tours, excursions, and destination holidays. The closest direct geographic peer to ZipTravel within the Bulgarian domestic market, with overlapping destinations and customer base.
• TravelStart Bulgaria (part of Travelstart Group): Online travel agency active in Bulgaria and other African/emerging markets, selling flights, hotels, and packages. Comparable to ZipTravel as a digitally-led regional OTA targeting the same Bulgarian outbound consumer.
• Detur (TUI brand): TUI's brand historically focused on Scandinavian and Eastern European source markets for Mediterranean packaged holidays. Comparable to ZipTravel as a regional package-travel seller targeting consumers in a single home market.

Direct peers

• Pohod.bg: Bulgarian online travel platform offering packaged tours, vacations, and excursions to domestic and international destinations. Directly comparable to ZipTravel as a Bulgarian-language retail travel agency competing for the same local customer base.
• Lastminute.com: European-focused online travel agency specializing in dynamic packages, last-minute deals, and Mediterranean vacations. Closely comparable to ZipTravel's package-led, multi-destination leisure model, though operating across more countries.

Emerging players

• Cruise Critic (Tripadvisor-owned): Cruise-specific content and booking platform. Relevant as a competitor and information source in the cruise category — one of ZipTravel's four primary product lines.

Broad incumbents

• Expedia Group: Major OTA and package-travel aggregator with global reach. Competes with ZipTravel for Mediterranean leisure bookings by Bulgarian consumers, while offering broader flight + hotel + cruise bundles that ZipTravel assembles manually.
• Booking.com: Global OTA that dominates accommodation and packaged travel bookings in the same Greek, Turkish, Italian, and Bulgarian destinations ZipTravel targets. Competes directly for Bulgarian outbound leisure travelers, though on a vastly larger scale and with a self-serve model.
• TUI Group: Europe's largest integrated tourism group with packaged holidays, cruises, and excursions across the Mediterranean. Overlaps with ZipTravel's vacation + cruise + excursion bundle model, though TUI owns inventory and airlines rather than reselling.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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