Our Company
The Tripadee Travel Group is a travel technology business. Our mission is to connect accommodation hosts with customers looking for a special place to stay. We use our technology to promote those special places through our portfolio of online travel brands, and then complete and manage the booking with our Bedful booking system, wherever the transaction happens: on the host's website, over the phone, on one of our channels, or elsewhere. Our headquarters are in Shoreditch, London, where a growing team of talented travel professionals oversee the development of the portfolio, build relationships with travel businesses throughout the UK and beyond, and continually refine our products to ensure we are ahead of the game.
Our longest-established brand is Cool Camping, founded by Tripadee CEO Jonathan Knight in 2006. With tent camping not well catered for and glamping not yet 'invented', Cool Camping tapped into a specific target audience, bringing beautiful places to camp and unique glamping accommodation to the attention of this sizeable niche audience. It is now the go-to brand for tent camping, and one of the leading online campsite booking engines in the UK. Since then, the portfolio of brands has grown, with each aimed at a specific travel sub-vertical. Consumer travel brands include British accommodation website Cool Places, luxury outdoor accommodation brand Glampingly, and non-curated camping and caravanning website I Love This Campsite, currently in development.
We see a huge opportunity to grow the Tripadee Travel Group, particularly in the verticals of camping and glamping, where online bookings are in a high-growth phase. We will continue to develop our existing portfolio of brands, and will add to them wherever we see an opportunity to develop a specific market.
Tripadee Timeline
2006
First Cool Camping books published under the Punk Publishing name
First Cool Camping website launched - it just sold books!
2008
Cool Camping wins IPG Specialist Consumer Publisher award
2009
New Cool Camping website launched with searchable campsite content
2012
Cool Places website launched
Website re-launched with improved search, image galleries and other features
2013
Cool Camping is named 'Best Camping Website' in the Daily Mail
2015
First booking taken on the Cool Camping website on April 3rd!
2017
Bedful booking system product is launched
2018
Glampingly website launched
Bookings forecast to hit £10m
Punk Publishing changes its name to Tripadee