The perfect opportunity to promote your brand.
Sponsoring the Best Workplaces in Travel Employee Survey and Awards creates the perfect platform to align your brand with the travel industry audience, in particular CEOs, Marketing and HR professionals. Your involvement will put your brand in the spotlight and generate unrivalled promotion from the moment you sign up. All our sponsor partners will have the opportunity to connect with CEO's, Marketing and HR professionals and be an integral part of celebrating the best places to work in the industry. People are at the heart of our industry, so do get involved.
Our 2026 sponsors
We would personally like to extend a big thank you to everyone supporting us this year and helping to celebrate the Best Workplaces in Travel 2026. If you’re interested in promoting your brand through Best Workplaces in Travel, download our brochure below or get in touch with Gail today.
BEST SMALL & MID-SIZE COMPANY
Checkout.com
Checkout.com is a global payments platform helping leading brands accept, process, and optimize digital payments worldwide. With powerful tech and deep expertise, we deliver fast, secure, data-driven payment solutions that drive growth, cut complexity, and unlock revenue - across every channel, market, and moment. Checkout.com combines cutting-edge payments tech with proven travel insight.
AWARD FOR ADVOCACY
Korero
Korero is a career conversation tool that helps take every person in your business on their own unique journey with you. It supports meaningful, people centred career conversations that drive your culture, values and goals to help your managers become leaders and your people team to be informed and strategic.
MOST IMPROVED COMPANY
SystemsX
We are delighted to sponsor the Progression Award at Best Workplaces in Travel.
This award celebrates the travel company who has most improved its employee survey score over the past year; highlighting the fact that they genuinely listening to their people and strengthening culture through action, not just intention.
At Systems X, we’re passionate about supporting workplaces where people can thrive and develop - recognising progress is a powerful part of that.
AWARD FOR HAPPINESS
Palma & Partners
Palma & Partners offers a new approach to communications, representation and consultancy for the world’s most ambitious tourism and hospitality brands and destinations
The future belongs to brands that can adapt intelligently whilst remaining deeply connected to their audiences
Palma & Partners combines advanced insight, AI understanding and senior strategic counsel to build stronger brands, loyal communities and lasting commercial value
Founded by Jules Ugo, who led LOTUS, one of the most successful tourism-focused integrated agencies, Palma & Partner is focused on delivery and results in a changing and volatile market.
HOST PARTNER
Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton is one of the world’s leading organisations of independent assurance, tax and advisory firms. We are an adviser that delivers technical expertise and a personal, proactive and agile service that goes beyond. Combining global scale with sector expertise and local insight we bring proactive and practical guidance to travel businesses, helping you achieve your ambitions, grow, protect and create value.
The UK Grant Thornton member firm is led by over 200 partners and employs over 5500 of the profession’s brightest minds. We are a business adviser that celebrates fresh thinking and diverse perspectives to bring you proactive insights and a service you can trust.
AWARD FOR WELLBEING
Howden
Howden Employee Benefits UK, part of Howden Group, is known for helping organisations create healthier, more engaged and better-supported workplaces.
Howden brings real insight into employee wellbeing, benefits strategy and people-first thinking, all hugely relevant to the challenges HR professionals in travel are navigating right now.
PERFORMANCE & RECOGNITION AWARD
Active International
Active International is a pioneering global Corporate Trade industry leader, transforming how companies derive value from their under performing inventory and assets. Active is deeply rooted in the media industry and offers innovative solutions for businesses to fund advertising using their products, assets or services. A proven strategic partner for companies seeking to grow, evolve and adapt in the ever changing market landscape.
At Active, their people are their greatest asset. The integrity, expertise and passion are the foundation to everything they do. With a core commitment to workplace culture, and over 30 years’ experience bringing value to the biggest names in travel, from airlines and tour operators to hotel groups, Active International is delighted to support Best Workplaces in Travel again this year.
AWARD FOR PURPOSE
Avis Budget Group
Avis operates from over 5,000 locations in 165 countries worldwide. Avis is a trusted and award-winning brand with a long history of innovation in the car rental industry and is one of the world’s top brands for customer loyalty, with a commitment to true convenience and exceptional service.
Avis works successfully with over one hundred Tour Operators and Global Partnerships including Airlines, hotels, credit card and member schemes.