Virgin Holidays Limited is a company within Sir Richard Branson's

Virgin Group, headquartered in Aeronautics House in Crawley, West

Sussex.[1] The company was formed in 1985, a year after the successful
launch of Virgin Atlantic Airways in June 1984. Initially selling seats on
Virgin Atlantic routes to New York, Miami and Orlando the company has
grown to become one of the largest and most successful long-haul
scheduled tour operators in the UK. The Managing Director is Mark
Anderson, who replaced Amanda Wills CBE in 2014.
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Operations[edit]
"The Office," the head office of Virgin Holidays and Virgin Atlantic

The company offers holidays worldwide with destinations including the

USA and Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, India, the
Indian Ocean, the Far East, Australia and the South Pacific. In addition,
the company has an established ski programme, a specialist cruise
division, "Virgin Holidays Cruises" and "Worldwide Journeys" touring
holidays
In September 2008 Virgin Holidays launched a partnership with Herbert
Ypma's HIP Hotels to create Virgin Holidays + HIP Hotels, a bespoke
tour operator providing holidays to luxury and boutique hotels around the
world.
On 18 December 2008 Virgin Holidays acquired the assets and brand
name of Travel City Direct from XL Leisure Group, which collapsed in

September 2008.[2] Travel City Direct has been relaunched offering

holidays to Florida, Las Vegas and the Caribbean.
Nearly a year later, on 15 December 2009, Virgin Holidays announced
that it had bought the small independent tour operator, Bales Worldwide.
Virgin Holidays has a network of over 100 retail concessions throughout
the UK in Debenhams, House of Fraser, Tesco, Sainsburys and pop-up
shops already operating across the UK. These are supplemented by
several standalone shops.
In 2015 Virgin Holidays left their long standing home at The Galleria and
moved to Aeronautics House close to Virgin Atlantic. Initially announced
as a temporary move whilst the Galleria was refurbished it was later
announced that Virgin Holidays would move into a newly built building,
the Leonardo Building, with Virgin Atlantic.

Awards[edit]

Virgin Holidays has won every significant industry and consumer travel
award in the UK, and in 2013 was once again voted Best Holiday
Company to the USA, the Caribbean and Canada at the prestigious
British Travel Awards. It was recognised as a Consumer Superbrand in
2011, voted one of the UK's strongest brands by experts and
consumers.

v-room[edit]

There are now v-room airport lounges at Gatwick and Manchester

Airports. They're exclusively for the use of Virgin Holidays customers and
the first ever airport loungues dedicated to people going on holiday. In
2016 the v-room at Gatwick closed temporarily whilst a terminal move to
the North Terminal was planned and executed.

Environmental research[edit]

On 21 September 2006, Richard Branson announced that all profits the

Virgin Group receives from Virgin Holidays will be ploughed into research
and investment to develop sustainable sources of energy. He also
committed the profits from Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin Trains,
which in total is estimated to be $3bn over the next 10 years. At the time
he said, Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from
our parents and they from their parents, it is in our hands whether our

children and their children inherit the same world.

References[edit]
1

Jump up ^ "Contact Us." Virgin Holidays Limited. Retrieved on 26 December

2010. "Virgin Holidays Limited.Registered Office: Company Secretariat, The
Office, Manor Royal, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 9NU.Registered in England
No. 1873815"
Jump up ^ TTG Live: Virgin Holidays buys Travel City Direct

External links[edit]
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Virgin Holidays + HIP Hotels
Virgin Holidays Cruises
Travel City Direct
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