How to start a tour company (1 sources)
The Tour Operator Licensing Register carries 1 published figure read from 2 sources' own pages, from 1,674 to 1,674 count, read 12 October 2026.
Excurvo sells its own paid plan in this category (our pricing). It is not counted here: every figure in this index is another provider's own published price, read from its own page.
2 of the 21 named sources read in full publish a figure; 19 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
Every figure, with its source
One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| ATOL (CAA consumer scheme site) | 1,674count | 2026-10-12 |
| Ireland Point of Single Contact: travel agents and tour operators | 300EUR | 2026-10-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (2)
- ATOL (CAA consumer scheme site), read 2026-10-12:
A total of 1,674 businesses in the travel sector are licensed under the ATOL scheme according to new figures released […]
- Ireland Point of Single Contact: travel agents and tour operators, read 2026-10-12:
The fee for tour operator license applications is set according to the "projected licensable turnover" of the applicant company, however they start from €300 and increase depending on projected turnover.
Read in full, publishes no figure
19 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- UK Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- UK CAA ATOL requirements for the travel industry, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- UK CAA ATOL holders search, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK set up a business, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- California Attorney General Seller of Travel programme, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Washington State Department of Licensing sellers of travel, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Hawaii DCCA travel agency programme, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Florida Sellers of Travel statute (Chapter 559 Part XI), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Florida Administrative Code Chapter 5J-3 (Sellers of Travel), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- TICO registration overview and requirements (Ontario), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- TICO registration and renewal fees, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- CCPC guidance for businesses: travel, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- business.gov.au registrations, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- US SBA apply for licenses and permits, read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Government of Canada start a business, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ABTOT: the CAA franchise route to an ATOL, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ATAS accreditation (Australian Travel Industry Association), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- the licensing authority per market, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ABTA membership, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
2 of the 21 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 19 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in count (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 8 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per jurisdiction: the scheme name, the administering authority, whether registration is compulsory or voluntary, the application and renewal FEE as that authority's own fee schedule states it, the bond or trust requirement, and the count of holders where the authority publishes a searchable register.
The figure nobody publishes is the CROSS-MARKET COMPARISON built from it - what it costs to become a legal tour operator in each market, ranked, with the US state registrations at one end and the delegated-authority provinces at the other - beside a second derived column, whether the scheme protects the CUSTOMER'S MONEY (bond or trust) or only registers the seller, which is what decides whether the operator also needs failure insurance.
Changed-since on every fee schedule, which is the news when a regulator reprices.
8 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (22)
- UK Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- UK CAA ATOL requirements for the travel industry(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- UK CAA ATOL holders search(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ATOL (CAA consumer scheme site)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK set up a business(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- California Attorney General Seller of Travel programme(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Washington State Department of Licensing sellers of travel(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Hawaii DCCA travel agency programme(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Florida Sellers of Travel statute (Chapter 559 Part XI)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Florida Administrative Code Chapter 5J-3 (Sellers of Travel)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- TICO registration overview and requirements (Ontario)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- TICO registration and renewal fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Ireland Point of Single Contact: travel agents and tour operators(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- CCPC guidance for businesses: travel(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- business.gov.au registrations(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US SBA apply for licenses and permits(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Government of Canada start a business(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ABTOT: the CAA franchise route to an ATOL(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ATAS accreditation (Australian Travel Industry Association)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Florida FDACS Sellers of Travel programme(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- the licensing authority per market(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ABTA membership(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Tour Operator Licensing Register carries 1 published figure read from 2 sources' own pages, from 1,674 to 1,674 count, read 12 October 2026.
2 of the 21 named sources read in full publish a figure; 19 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
Cite as: "Excurvo Tour Operator Licensing Register", updated 2026-10-18, https://excurvo.com/datasets/tour-operator-licensing-register/.
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