Eleven UK travel firms have collapsed into liquidation since 2025, leaving customers seeking refunds after flights and holidays were cancelled and staff made redundant, amid wider uncertainty in the travel industry.
Several travel companies have plunged into liquidation this year (Image: GETTY)
Eleven travel companies have collapsed into liquidation over recent months as the travel industry has been battered by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
The closures since the start of the year have triggered flight chaos and left staff facing redundancy as a result.
In a number of cases, holidays have been cancelled outright, leaving customers scrambling for refunds or compensation.
In Oxfordshire, coach and passenger land transport firm Oxfordshire Travel Limited, based near Kidlington, went into liquidation in October 2025.
The company had traded for a decade before liquidators were brought in, after it was determined the business was no longer able to continue operating or settle its debts.
Set Sail Cruises Ltd, also based in Oxfordshire, was dissolved on March 17, 2026, with all planned sailings cancelled as a consequence.
The agency was just two years old, having been incorporated on February 4, 2024.
In the same county, The Padel Travel Club Limited also shut its doors with approximately £41k in short-term debts — any trips that had yet to depart were subsequently cancelled.
The business was incorporated in February 2023 and has since been struck off the Companies House register following a voluntary strike-off.
Documents suggest the company folded with short-term debts of just over £40,000 and insufficient assets to repay creditors in full, though a final liquidation statement has yet to be made available. Several other travel firms have also felt the full force of the struggling industry.
London-based Regen Central Ltd, an ATOL-licensed travel agency selling flight-and-hotel packages to Europe and Southeast Asia, lost its ATOL on January 13.
Following this, the company fell into liquidation and cancelled all bookings.
Another travel firm, Simply Florida Travel Ltd, based in Glasgow and well-known for selling “dream holidays” including trips to Disney World, was stripped of its ATOL holder status after dissolving in early January.
Holidaymakers were left chasing refunds as all packages and flights were subsequently cancelled.
Gold Crest Holidays, a coach-tour operator running trips across the UK and abroad, also collapsed and ceased trading in early 2026.
Following the liquidation, all members of staff were made redundant.
Numerous other travel companies have also stopped trading or dissolved since 2025. These include Asiara UK Ltd, Jetline Travel Ltd, Great Little Escapes LLP and New Era Travel.
Most recently, Strachan Travel Ltd, a Lancashire-based firm incorporated in 1983, entered voluntary liquidation.
Resolutions to wind up the company were recorded on June 11, with liquidators appointed on June 16, according to The Gazette.
The collapse of these firms comes amid a period of widespread uncertainty in the travel sector, following warnings issued by the Government and airlines in response to the conflict in the Middle East.
However, with a peace agreement now signed and several travel restrictions lifted, there is renewed hope for the industry.