Hays Travel is one of the most familiar brands for the best in holidays in the UK. As the largest independent travel agent, it provides second-to-none service, great value and quality holidays. Hays Travel employs over 800 people, has 43 branches throughout the UK, two call centres in the north east, and 300 homeworkers. All that from modest beginnings in a small retail shop in County Durham in 1980. The Hays Travel Independence Group was founded in 1995, to allow independent retailers to operate under the company’s licence and bonds.? PurpleTravel.co.uk is a trading diction of Hays Travel LTD and operates under ABTA numbers K5728 and L572X.