lowcosttravelgroup includes 3 major trading businesses: lowcostholidays.com, a consumer facing travel sales business which sells a wide range of great value accommodation only and dynamically packaged holidays. lowcostbeds.com, one of the leading independent providers of high quality, competitively priced hotel accommodation to travel agents and ResortHoppa, the UK's leading independent holiday transfer business.

Founded on 2004 by Paul Evans, former Managing Director of First Choice Holidays and Purchasing Director of Airtours Holidays, the group reported an increase in its sales to £109m in 2008/9. The group is backed by Albion Ventures, a leading independent venture capital investor which manages over £200m of investment across a wide range of businesses.

lowcostholidays.com, is a consumer facing travel business which sells accommodation only and dynamically packaged holidays through its advanced website and call centres both in the UK and also 4 other countries. The website was launched in January 2009 and has already been listed in the top 15 travel agency websites in the UK by Hitwise. Over 1 million people have travelled with lowcostholidays.com.

lowcostholidays.com employs the latest technology, enabling millions of dynamic packages to be created every day by combining the best priced airline seats from over 100 airlines with over 120,000 hotels, to enable consumers to access and book the best value holidays available. The website is the fastest site for dynamically packaging consumers holidays and is achieving industry beating look to book ratios. lowcostholidays.com

lowcostholidays.com is a member of ABTA and holds an IATA license.

lowcostbeds.com is the top UK independent bed bank and provides agents and travel web sites with access to a wide range of high quality 2, 3, 4 and 5 star beach and city accommodation around the world. lowcostbedsagents' experienced and highly regarded buying team has directly contracted 3,000 hotels, apartments and villas around the world, including the Mediterranean, Carribean, Central America, USA, Middle East, India, South East Asia and the Indian Ocean.

lowcostbeds.com, trading as lowcostbeds.com, was established in 2004 by Paul Evans, CEO, who previously was the purchasing director for Airtours Holidays and managing director of First Choice Holidays. The team now includes over 100 staff, including a dedicated trade support and customer service centre team who look after bookings and clients in resort.

lowcostbeds.com has raised over £2m of investment from both private individuals and in 2005 from Albion Venture Management (previously Close Venture Management), a £200m venture capital firm.

lowcostbeds.com invested in a new technology platform, iVector from Intuitive Systems, which went live in April 2008 and now has the fastest, easiest to use trade web site of any accommodation supplier. .

Resorthoppa (UK) Ltd's success story started in 2004 and has grown spectacularly over the last 4 years, rolling out to another 8 countries. Resorthoppa.com is the number one transport supplier in the independent transfers business in the UK and Europe with 1.4 million passengers carried in 2009.

Resorthoppa has offices in Sussex in the UK and Alicante, Spain and operates in over 70 countries, 450 gateways (airports) with over 5,000 resorts. Resorthoppa specialises in shuttle, private, VIP and corporate transfer services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to all the main beach, ski and city destinations, as well as places off the beaten track.

Resorthoppa was created in 2004 in response to changing customer behaviour in the travel marketplace. With the growth in dynamically packaged holidays, Resorthoppa was setup to provide the 'missing link' for customers that need to get from the airport to their final holiday destination. Resorthoppa connects 450+ airports, seaports and train stations to hotels and resorts around the world. The company offers customers low cost shuttles transfers as well as private transfers - using taxis, minibuses, coaches and even helicopters if required.

Resorthoppa merged with lowcostravelgroup in January 2009.