The Travel Chapter Acquires Cottages and Castles

Travel Chapter Sold to Management Team with Investment from ICG

October 1, 2022

Restaurants & Hospitality

Travel Chapter, a leading UK holiday rental platform (including Holidaycottages.co.uk), has been sold by ECI to the company’s management team with backing from ICG. The transaction represents ECI's exit and positions Travel Chapter for further growth under management and ICG's investment.

Sykes Holiday Cottages Acquires Pure Cottages Group from LDC

January 6, 2020

Restaurants & Hospitality

Chester-based Sykes Holiday Cottages has acquired Pure Cottages Group from private equity investor LDC for an undisclosed sum. The deal brings the Pure Cottages portfolio — a collection of five luxury regional holiday rental brands managing more than 1,500 holiday homes across Cumbria, Cornwall and the Cotswolds — into Sykes' wider network to bolster its premium offering and support further UK and international expansion.

The Travel Chapter Group Acquires FBM Holidays

October 3, 2021

Restaurants & Hospitality

The Travel Chapter Group has acquired FBM Holidays, a Tenby-based self-catering holiday lettings agency that manages almost 300 properties across Pembrokeshire and West Wales. The acquisition expands Travel Chapter's regional footprint and is the group's fifth purchase since investor ECI Partners backed Travel Chapter in 2019.

Vitruvian Partners Acquires Sykes Cottages with Unitranche Financing from EQT Credit

November 1, 2019

Real Estate

Vitruvian Partners has acquired Sykes Cottages Holdings Limited, a UK-based vacation rental management business, with unitranche senior debt facilities provided by EQT Credit to finance the acquisition, refinance existing debt, and support future growth. Sykes operates a tech-enabled vacation rental platform managing tens of thousands of properties across the United Kingdom and New Zealand and will be supported by the new capital for continued expansion.

Sykes Holiday Cottages to Acquire Forest Holidays from Phoenix-led Investor Group

April 8, 2022

Restaurants & Hospitality

Sykes Holiday Cottages, a portfolio company of Vitruvian Partners, is set to acquire Forest Holidays from an institutional investor group led by Phoenix Equity Partners and including LDC. The transaction brings Forest Holidays’ 12-location, nature-based cabin business into the Forge/Sykes platform to create a larger UK domestic holiday group focused on sustainable tourism.

Travel Counsellors Acquires Holidaysplease

March 13, 2023

Consumer Products

Travel Counsellors has acquired Holidaysplease, a Birmingham-based network of luxury homeworking travel advisors and franchisees. The deal brings Holidaysplease's community of roughly 100 homeworkers, 50 franchisees and about 50 employees into Travel Counsellors' global platform, strengthening its people-led, technology-enabled travel entrepreneur network.