ARP AFRICA TRAVEL LIMITED
Company number 02590308 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
ARP Africa Travel is a financially robust specialist operator with impressive post-pandemic recovery momentum, leveraging 33 years of Africa expertise and strategic partnerships to deliver 17% annual revenue growth and ~10% net margins. The Hotelbeds Group relationship and internationally diverse board provide distinctive competitive advantages in distribution and credibility, while the transition to IFRS reporting signals operational maturity. The critical strategic imperatives are defending margins against persistent cost inflation, diversifying source markets beyond the UK, and investing in digital capabilities to reduce distribution concentration risk while capitalising on the structurally growing luxury safari market.
Shareholders' funds
£8,052,729
Balance sheet as at 2024-10-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of a B2B overseas tour operator.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1991-03-11
- Employees
- 30 (2024 accounts · was 28 in 2023)
- Registered office
- 98 Bessborough Road,, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3DH
- Postcode
- HA1 3DH
- Capital
- 150,252 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-03
- Next due by
- 2027-08-17
Nature of business (SIC)
- 79909 Other reservation service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 9 current · 28 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by AFRICA TRAVEL INVESTMENTS LIMITED — since 2025-05-30
Controlled by AVIATREX LTD — since 2020-07-14
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA199600 (Tier 2), registered since 2016.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- arpafrica.com
- Phone
- +44 2084230220, +44 2084230201
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ALPHA TRAVEL (U.K) LIMITED | 2020-10-02 |
| ALPHA SAFARI CONSULTANTS LIMITED | 1992-05-20 |
| DARREN COURT LIMITED | 1991-03-26 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 98 BESSBOROUGH ROAD,, HARROW,, MIDDLESEX., HA1 3DT | 2006-03-13 |
| PROSPECT HOUSE,, 50 LEIGH ROAD,, EASTLEIGH,, HANTS. SO5 4DT. | 1991-05-20 |
| 209 LUCKWELL ROAD, BRISTOL, BS3 3HD | 1991-04-11 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 43 similar companies in HA
The largest employer among its local peers (30 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1991.
Competitors Harrow
This company ranks 1 among other reservation service activities not elsewhere classified in Harrow.
The class of 1991
50%
of the 20,888 companies incorporated in 1991 are still active today; 45% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.