Whereas vacationer numbers in lots of components of the world proceed to succeed in new heights, many smaller corporations promoting excursions and varied vacation packages have been having a troublesome time staying afloat amid a mess of opponents and ease of reserving all the pieces alone on-line.
Tour operators Nice Little Escapes and Jetline in the UK each shut down inside just a few weeks of one another in the summertime of 2025 whereas New Period Journey within the nation’s southeast additionally initiated liquidation proceedings in November.
Tango Journey in Iceland, MixxTravel in Sweden and Unitravel in Hungary are a number of the different journey businesses that didn’t survive 2025. And most lately, Canadian journey company Vegas Holidays was stripped of its license to function on January 9 after a number of clients reported it to regulators after paying for flight-hotel packages and discovering that half or all of their bookings have been invalid.
Regen Central shuts down after shedding ATOL license
In the UK, the British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is reporting that Regen Central Ltd is the newest to close down after shedding its Air Journey Organisers’ Licensing (ATOL) required for tour operators within the nation on January 13.
Based in 2011 within the Hertfordshire county of jap England earlier than relocating its headquarters to London, the journey company additionally operated underneath manufacturers like One Haji and Umra and Oneworld Journey whereas promoting flight-hotel packages to Center Japanese locations like Dubai and Saudi Arabia underneath some manufacturers and Italy, Bali and Thailand underneath others.
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The web sites promoting these excursions have been nonetheless up as of Jan. 15.
“Regen Central Ltd has ceased trading as an ATOL holder on 13 January 2026,” the CAA mentioned in an announcement. “The company based in London traded under the names One Haji and Umrah, Regen Travels and Oneworld Travels and website(s) regentravels.com, oneworld-travels.com and onehajjumrah.com.”
The British journey company bought vacation packages to locations similar to Dubai, Bali and The Maldives.
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The regulator additional mentioned that the following step is for the corporate to begin liquidation proceedings; clients who booked invalid journey packages are requested to carry tight till the CAA supplies info on submit refund claims.
These journey corporations went bankrupt in 2025:
- Nice Little Escapes: The British journey firm filed for chapter after working up losses of £77,000 ($103,000 USD).
- Unitravel Kft: The Budapest-based tour operator blamed “new, foreign companies enter[ing] Hungary with huge financial resources” for a monetary breakdown that led to it having to instantly cancel journeys that in some circumstances have been already midway via.
- MixxTravel: The Malmö-based journey firm was pressured to cancel journeys and wind down operations after being declared bankrupt by a decide in August 2025.
- Tango Journey: The Icelandic tour operator went bust in November 2025 after main companion Play Airways filed for chapter and stopped operations a month earlier.
- New Period Journey: Ceased operations in November 2025. The Hampshire-based tour operator took British vacationers to Spain, Australia, and Las Vegas amongst different locations.
The corporate itself has not supplied an announcement on its scenario and couldn’t be reached by vacationers who’re looking for out what is going to occur to their bookings.
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Native retailers have dug up that the Regen has been issued an order to wind down operations in the summertime of 2025.
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