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About The Co-operative Travel


The Co-operative Travel is the UK’s largest independent travel agent with over 3,000 employees and over 400 high street branches, and is also part of the world’s largest consumer co-operative.

Unlike many of Co-Operative travel key competitors, Coop Holidays Travelcare are not owned by a specific tour operator, therefore Coop Holidays Travelcare can sell and advise on holidays from a range of UK Tour operators including but not limited to  Thomas Cook, Thomson, First Choice, Monarch Holidays, Skytours, Unijet, Style, Kuoni, Crystal, Hayes and Jarvis, Sovereign, Panorama, Manos and many more.

Coop Holidays Travelcare size and independence allows the Coop holiday website to offer all Co-Operative travel customers a wide range of holidays at exceptional value.

The Co-operative Travel was the first travel agent in the UK to sell carbon offset on the high street giving customers the opportunity to combat CO2 emissions from their holiday flights and travel responsibly. Coop Holidays Travelcare strong values and principles on ethics and sustainability continue to be at the forefront of Coop thinking.

About the Co-operative Group

The Co-operative Group is a business democratically run by members to meet their common needs and aspirations. We have over 1.5 million economically active members, making us the UK’s largest co-operative.

In 2007 we had an annual turnover of £9.4bn and 87,000 employees serving around 10 million customers a week through food, healthcare, travel, funeral care and financial services.

The Co-operative Group has a responsibility to manage and develop its family of businesses in a sustainable way, and we have been offering good quality products and services at reasonable prices for well over 100 years. Ethical trading is what we are about.

The Co-operative is a name you can trust with over 150 years of retail experience and an annual turnover in excess of £10 billion; incorporating Food, Pharmacy, Bank and Funeral divisions as
well as Travel.
Coop Holidays Travelcare have a proud history of corporate responsibility; indeed The Co-operative is viewed as the most ethical brand in the UK* Customers can opt to become a member. Coop Holidays Travelcare members can vote on the way the society is run as they are the owners of the business – not shareholders!
Coop Holidays Travelcare are full members of ABTA and are also ATOL protected. You can rest assured that for many years to come, your travel arrangements and holiday money will be secure with Coop Holidays Travelcare.
As a trading division of the largest Co-operative society in the UK, all of Co-Operative travel profits are reinvested in our business and the communities in which we serve.

* According to the GfK NOP Ethical Brands Survey 2008, which was conducted in the UK, covering a total of 3,000 respondents from March to April 2008