LIST: SPORTS EVENT TOUR OPERATORS
These are UK-based tour operators and specialist travel agencies offering spectator tours to sporting events such as horse-racing, Grand Prix motor racing, golf, tennis, football, cricket or rugby, for sports spectators & fans.
| Airtrack | 01895 810810 | Airtrack operates sports breaks to a variety of top sports events in the UK and around the world, with a principal focus on motor sport and football. |
| Fanfare Events | 0161 437 0002 | Football tour packages to watch matches in countries all over the world. Full packages including flights, accommodation and match tickets. |
| Globalsport | 0870 080 2337 | Exclusive tailormade trips to top sports events worldwide and exclusive sports and sporting celebrity experiences. |
| Gold Crest | 01943 433457 | UK & European short breaks by coach specialist offering a selection of breaks to Formula 1 races, cycling (Tour de France), and horse racing events such as the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe race meeting in Paris and the Cheltenham Gold Cup. |
| Grandstand Sports Tours - Cricket | 0116 231 1222 | Grandstand is a division of Titan Tours who have been organising sports event spectator tours for many years - in particular cricket and motor sports. Their cricket programme for 2006 features all the major international tours and Ashes matches. |
| Grandstand Sports Tours - Motor Sports | 0116 231 1222 | Grandstand is a division of Titan Tours who have been organising sports event spectator tours for many years - in particular cricket and motor sports. Their motor sports programme for 2007 features MotoGP races in Europe, Formula One races in Europe as well as Malaysia, Australia, and Hungary, Sportscar & NASCAR races (Le Mans 24 hr & Daytona), and classic car races such as the Mille Miglia, and Le Circuit des Remparts in Angouleme. |
| Gulliver Sports | 01684 293175 | Well-known sports tour specialist covering most of the major sporting events worldwide (particularly rugby & cricket). |
| Horse Racing Abroad | 01444 441661 | Independent specialist operator for almost (05) 30 years covering all the key events in the international horse racing calendar. |
| Howzat | 0800 840 1110 | Cricket tour specialist organising travel arrangements for cricket enthusiasts. Official Licenced Travel Operator for the 3 mobile Ashes Series 2010/11 and also Official Travel Agent for the ICC World Twenty20 West Indies 2010. |
| ITC Classics | 01244 355 390 | ITC Classics have a sports division which builds packages around sports events, eg. formula 1, cricket & rugby. |
| Mike Burton | 01452 892057 | Sports event ticketing & travel specialists, covering all the major rugby, football, formula 1, horse racing and tennis events. |
| Motor Racing International | 01304 612424 | Dedicated to motorsports enthusiasts with packages to every Formula 1 Grand prix and many other events including Le Mans. |
| Page and Moy | 0800 567 6638 |  Motor racing breaks (car & bike) to all the Formula 1 Grand Prix events, Nascar, Le Mans, Daytona 24hr, etc. These days Page & Moy is a major operator of mainstream & specialist holidays, but motor racing is where it all began in 1962 when their very first tour was a party of 23 people to see the Le Mans 24-hr. P&M are part of the Kaleidoscope Travel Group which specialises in escorted travel. |
| Pumpkin Tours | 0845 527 3385 | Formula 1 races, Moto GP & Superbike events, and premier Horse-racing events worldwide. |
| Sport Abroad | 08456 803 086 | Specialist sports event division of TUI group, organising and operating supporters tours to selected major Rugby, Motorsport, Cricket and Horse racing events worldwide. |
| Sporting Traveller, The | 01737 244398 | Spectator tours to major sporting events the world over, plus golf and other activity holidays for participants. |
| Sportsworld Group | 01235 554 844 | Tours for groups & individuals to the top sports events such as the Olympics, Commonwealth Games & FIFA World Cup. The group also handles team travel, corporate & incentive travel and organises sports events. |
| Thomas Cook Sport |
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| Thomson Sport | 0845 121 2018 | This is the overall sports trip portal for Thomson Holidays sports brands such as Sportsworld, Sporting Challenge or Sport Abroad, covering between them, most major sports events worldwide. |
Notes
- Mission Impossible are a ticketing agency for worldwide sports events.
- Why Don't You... is the special interest holidays division of WEXAS, the longstanding and well-known holiday club. WDY has a number of sports event tours in its programme each year, often to non-mainstream events such as Rugby sevens in Hong Kong or the Velka Pardubicka steeple-chase in the Czech Republic.
- Black Tomato (020 7610 9008) used to be a specialist sports tour agency offering, in a style all of their own, tours to major sports events and city breaks with a sports focus. They still offer some sports events, but now they dabble in bespoke adventure/experience tours to just about everywhere.