Key Travel

Key Travel

=16th in the UK
Gross UK sales 2022 £102 million

22nd in France
Gross France sales 2022 €3.2 million

10th in Italy

9th Floor, St James Building, 79 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 6FQ   
keytravel.com

COMPANY PROFILE

Main industry sectors

Charity and not for profit, education

Services in addition to business travel

Group travel, meetings and events, passport and visa services, sustainability programmes, traveller well-being services, venue sourcing, VIP travel

Type of company

Limited company (parent is Sasa Topco Limited)

Awards and accreditations

ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO27001, ATOL protected, ABTA member, IATA Accredited, PCI DSS

Online transactions

77.8%

Transactions

Air 41% | Hotel 28% | Rail 30% | Other 1%

Trips

Short-haul 72.5% | Long-haul 27.5%

Top destinations

Short-haul: UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain
Long-haul: US, Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa 

Office locations

Manchester, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Kenya

Association and network membership

Advantage Travel Partnership, Lufthansa City Center, TourCom, The BTA, IATA, ABTA, ATOL, CAA, TICO

Full-time equivalent staff

239

Average length of service (years)

4

Average industry experience (years)

13

GDS

Amadeus

Online booking tools

Proprietary OBT

Expense management tools

Rydoo

Other technology (I=in-house, T=third-party)

Air reshopping I 
Auditing I 
Business intelligence I, T 
Data visualisation I, T 
Disruption management T 
Mobile booking app I, T 
Mobile itinerary app I, T 
Peer benchmarking
Pre-trip approval I 
Profile management
Quality assurance I 
Sustainability reporting I 
Traveller tracking T 
Travel risk management T 
Unused ticket management

Other technology 

Salesforce.com CRM, Vonage telephony, Verint/Monet resource planning, Amadeus Selling Platform Connect 

Technology strategy 

Hybrid approach based on each specific case 

NDC content 

Direct connects and aggregators 

Biggest innovation of 2022 

Development and launch of Eco Fares with a major airline, whereby the airline would make a contribution on eligible bookings as an environmental contribution to a carbon offsetting partner, at no added cost. Customers can continue to travel to do good in the knowledge that they are also supporting verified carbon-reduction projects around the world