lowcosttravelgroup includes 6 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 across Europe; lowcostbeds.com, the leading independent providers of high quality, competitively priced hotel accommodation to travel agents across Europe; ResortHoppa, Europe's leading independent holiday transfer business and Ideal Cruising, one of the UK's leading quality cruise retail agents.

We are also the outsourced provider to easyjet holidays, delivering a full outsourced service including stock, systems, marketing and fulfillment.

All these businesses are powered by the Ivector platform, provided by the leading travel software company Intuitive Systems, a platform that also powers twenty plus other travel provider websites. The group has a 90% stake in Intuitive systems.

Founded in 2004 by Paul Evans, former Managing Director of First Choice Holidays and Purchasing Director of Airtours Holidays, the group now has sales of over 400m euros a year across ten countries. The group is backed by Albion Ventures, a leading independent venture capital investor which manages over £250m of investment across a wide range of businesses.

lowcostholidays.com, is a consumer facing travel business which sells accommodation only and holidays through its advanced website and call centres, in the UK and eight other countries. The websites were launched in January 2009 and are listed in the top 10 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 350,000 hotels, to enable consumers to access and book the best value holidays available.

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

lowcostbeds.com is the top European independent trade only bed bank, with websites in eight countries, 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. lowcostbeds' experienced and highly regarded buying team has directly contracted 5,000 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 can offer travel agents up to 350,000 hotels through its leading edge technology.

Resorthoppa (UK) Ltd's success story started in 2004 and has grown spectacularly over the last seven years, rolling out across Europe to another eight countries. Resorthoppa.com is the number one transport supplier in the UK and Europe with 1.4 million passengers carried in 2011.

Resorthoppa has offices in Gatwick, 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.

Ideal Cruising is the seafaring arm of the Lowcosttravelgroup. Adopting the same consumer facing principles, we offer customers a choice of over 7000 cruise holidays. Our site has a listing of more than 20 cruise lines, more than 150 ships and no less than 6,000 itineraries. With no affiliate ties, we are able to offer independent and impartial advice ? finding you the perfect cruise holiday.

The exceptional level of quality you can expect from our cruises is evident from the moment you contact us. Not wanting to let the side down, Ideal Cruising have earned more than 20 Cruise Industry awards in the past 5 years. Adopting the same consumer facing principles that characterise the lowcostgroup, we offer customers a choice of over 7000 cruise holidays. With no affiliate ties, we are able to offer independent and impartial advice, so finding you the perfect cruise holiday.

Our approach to customer care has earned us votes for awards such as Best Cruise Agent (The UK's Globe Travel Awards 2010). Staying true to our brand, tailoring the cruise holiday experience to meet the needs of you and your travelling companions remains Ideal Cruising's number one priority.