Hays Travel Limited
Registered name: HAYS TRAVEL LIMITED
Part of Hays Travel Group Limited groupHays Travel Limited made £507m revenue and £60.1m profit in the year to 30 Apr 2025.
Hays Travel Limited’s revenue grew 11% to £507m in the year to 30 Apr 2025, with £60.1m profit and 4,556 employees. The company is classified under “travel agency activities” and is based in Sunderland; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sunderland, North East
- Age
- 40 yrs · since 1986
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Apr 2023 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £423m | £457m | £507m |
| Cost of sales | −£272m | −£261m | −£266m |
| Gross profit | £152m | £196m | £241m |
| Operating profit | £45.9m | £60.4m | £64.6m |
| Profit before tax | £51.6m | £73.4m | £80.8m |
| Profit after tax | £40.2m | £54.4m | £60.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £40.2m | £54.4m | £60.1m |
| Employees (average) | 3,197 | 3,535 | 4,556 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 9.5% | 11.9% | 11.9% |
| Gross margin | 35.8% | 42.9% | 47.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £132k | £129k | £111k |
| Profit per employee | £12.6k | £15.4k | £13.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲8% | ▲10.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲35.2% | ▲10.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲10.6% | ▲28.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 11.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 47.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £111k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £13.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲29%
- Now 4,556
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Hays Travel Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Hays Travel Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (18)
- Inspearational Travels LimitedRev. £4.1m · Profit £317k
- Hays Beds LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hays Foreign Exchange LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hays Property Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hays Tour Operating LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hays Transfers LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Hays Transport LimitedFigures not disclosed
- John Stewart Travel LtdFigures not disclosed
- Just Go Travel LimitedFigures not disclosed
- L.a.h. Travel LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Miles Away LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Polka Dot Travel LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Rebecca Holt Travel LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Holiday and Flight Centre LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Independent Travel Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- The Original Travel House LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Trusted Package Company LtdFigures not disclosed
- Victoria Travel Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Apr 2025 (profit £60.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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