About Us

With a focus on customer service, at Absolute Travel & Tours we offer a fantastic range of trips to meet your budget, ambitions and expectations. All of us here in the Absolute Travel team, both at home and abroad, work tirelessly to ensure that your trip is a carefree, successful and enjoyable experience from start to finish. That means attention to your travel plans, accommodation, specialist inclusions and leisure time as well as to health and safety, financial protection and travel insurance. With guidance in pre-tour preparation, risk assessment and planning as well as on tour assistance, you will be benefitting from a wealth of collective knowledge and experience. Get in touch with us now and find out why more and more groups are booking with us at Absolute Travel & Tours.

We are based in Stansted in south-east England although our customers come from all over the United Kingdom and around the World as well as the local area. With a large number of partners and affiliates around the World, we also welcome groups from overseas into the UK and Europe too.

Absolute Travel & Tours Limited

Registered in England & Wales. Registered No. 02687145.

Registered Office: 10 Chapel Hill, Stansted, Essex, CM24 8AG.

Experience & Commitment

At Absolute Travel, we’re confident that our customer service, experience and longevity will make us the right choice for you when you come to confirm your tour.

Established in 1992, Absolute Travel & Tours is now one of the leading specialist school and group tour operators here in the United Kingdom organising sports tours, ski trips, music and educational trips with a hugely experienced team in the office and around the World. Your trip will be in very safe hands from start to finish. There simply is no substitute for experience!

We have an extensive selection of tours from day trips in the UK to tailor-made tours around the world. Whenever and wherever you travel, our collective goal is your safe and successful tour experience, providing the best service and the best tour at the best value for money.

An Absolute Passion

Specialist knowledge and experience is only half of the absolute story. What makes us different is our passion for the trips we organise, for the destinations that we feature, for the people who we work with and the relationships with our clients. That’s particularly true when you consider just how long we’ve been working many of our suppliers as well as our clubs and schools, and the journey that we continue to travel on together.

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“We have worked with Ashley Gowing and his team at Absolute Travel for 20 years now, a quite remarkable duration in modern professional sport. This has been borne out of the extreme professionalism of the company and their capacity to adapt to the needs of a professional rugby team in different environments and for different needs. Absolute travel has looked after our needs throughout the UK, Italy, Spain and Portugal and the personal service that Ashley himself has given us has been second to none. I would willingly recommend their services and would be happy to speak to any sports professionals contemplating using their company.”

Neil McIlroy, Team Manager, Clermont Auvergne Rugby, European Challenge Cup Champions 2019

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Many of the group leaders who book with us have now done so for many years and we are always extremely proud and grateful for the loyalty and faith shown in us by so many. Furthermore, we understand that the best form of attracting new customers has always come from referrals and we are hugely appreciative of now how many new enquiries have come from recommendations from existing groups. We treat all our customers as individuals and not as a number, so you’ll enjoy a relationship with us from the first moment that you get in touch.

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“Thank you so much for organising yet another successful tour. Other than the tour itself, your unwavering commitment to the cause and willingness to assist is endless. You really are a great tour company who place the importance of the students experiences at the forefront of everything that you do. We look forward to next year and to working together for many more years to come.”

School Trips Group leader, Eastwood Academy

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From us, a big thank you to all of you that have travelled with us over the last 30 years. As we celebrate a big anniversary in 2022, we hope that many of you will travel with us again and many more will join us in the future too. So, while it’s vital that you check out our company credentials on these pages, it’s also important to know who you are entrusting your trips with too.

Visit our Meet the Team page and remember, we’re always here to help! With best wishes from us all.