Travel / Tourism: business succession in the UK

Name: Travel / Tourism business succession in the UK
Creator: ExitRadar
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3,775 UK travel / tourism companies — 30.7% — have a director aged 60 or over.

1.8 points below the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured12,292

Director aged 60+3,775

Exposure rate30.7%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

12,292

Companies measured

3,775

With a director 60+

1,350

With a director 70+

30.7%

Exposure rate

Of the 3,775 with a director over 60, 239 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Travel / Tourism by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
South West	781	293	37.5%
Wales	343	126	36.7%
East of England	784	283	36.1%
South East	1,567	553	35.3%
Scotland	827	276	33.4%
Yorkshire & The Humber	626	196	31.3%
East Midlands	434	125	28.8%
West Midlands	781	221	28.3%
North West	1,139	321	28.2%
London	4,654	1,257	27%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Hospitality & Leisure pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Hospitality & Leisure →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Travel / Tourism: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-travel/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.