About Us

Travel Nation is an ABTA and ATOL bonded travel company that specialises in putting together round the world trips. We are entirely staffed by seasoned travel industry professionals whose experience and knowledge will be immediately apparent when you contact us. We pride ourselves on giving excellent service levels that continue throughout the life of your booking - extending even to a date change service (using the same person you booked your flights with) while you are away. Travel Nation was selected by BBC1 to book a complex round the world trip for the a four week special on the Holiday Programme in 2007.

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Your financial protection

When you book with Travel Nation, your money is safe. We are bonded agents and members of ATOL, ABTA, IATA, and provide free airline failure insurance.

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Who are the Directors?

Travel Nation is owned and run by Haydn Wrath.

Looking back at my first travel experience, it is actually a minor miracle that I ended up being responsible for planning other people’s once in a lifetime trips. It all started when I was 18 years old, way back in 1980, long before Lonely Planet books and specialist travel companies had made it to Nottingham…

I hitch-hiked to London (my first time there), asked a bemused policeman where the road to Dover was and followed his instructions to Elephant and Castle tube station, whereupon I started walking and hitch-hiking into the night down the Old Kent Road, expecting to get to the edge of London in a couple of hours. Eventually, a warm hearted cabbie on his way home somewhere in Kent picked me up (kick-starting a lifelong brand loyalty to black cabs) in what I guess would have been New Cross, so not too far from the countryside…... In this fashion, I finally made it to the Suez Canal in Egypt, where my plan to get on board a cargo ship heading for Bombay failed. This was just as well, as looking at my old blue passport, I didn’t have a visa for India anyway. Disastrous as this adventure was, the seed had been sown.

I left the University of East Anglia in 1984 and escaped what seemed a very grim England by spending the rest of the 1980s travelling and working round the world. During this time I sustained my wanderlust by putting in the usual stints as an English teacher in Tokyo, a landscape gardener in Sydney, and a tarmac layer's assistant in Alaska. After a year or so at STA Travel (in a branch that apparently couldn’t do without me as it is now a Starbucks café !), I joined Bridge the World Travel Centre in Camden in 1991 where I put my degree in politics and philosophy to good use by spending the rest of the 90’s as the sales manager there.

In 2001, I fulfilled my ambition to set up a travel company with high service levels that specialises in creating round the world trips by founding Travel Nation. In 2008, I set up another travel company called Rickshaw Travel, (www.rickshawtravel.co.uk) which features a series of country specific websites where independent travellers can work with country specialists to plan and create their own trip. Both companies are based in the same premises and I split my time between them.

Things have moved on a pace since 1980, and if you are thinking of booking with us, don’t worry, we won’t make you start your travels by hitching to Egypt and trying to talk your way onto a cargo ship !

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