What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | National regulators and bonding schemes (UK CAA ATOL, Germany's DRSF insolvency fund, IATA/IATAN accreditation, US Seller of Travel… | Per licensed operator, with licensed passenger capacity, renewed annually | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices and labour-force surveys, operators' HR systems, resort-rep staffing agencies | Headcount by occupation, monthly/quarterly per NACE class; per-employee… | public |
| financial filings | Company registries (Companies House, Bundesanzeiger), stock exchanges for listed operators (TUI, Jet2), credit bureaus (D&B, Creditsafe) | Annual/interim per legal entity; credit scores updated monthly | public |
| waste & emissions | Listed operators' ESG/CSRD sustainability reports, carbon-accounting vendors (Squake, ecollective), airline emissions registries (EU… | Annual corporate totals; per-trip carbon estimates in some booking flows | public |
| pricing | Tour operators' brochures/websites, price-comparison and rate-shopping vendors (Kayak, Holidaycheck, Travelzoo, TravelgateX), scraping… | Per package/departure date/room-board combination, scraped daily | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Charter and scheduled airlines, flight-tracking vendors (Cirium, OAG, FlightRadar24), border agencies (International Passenger Survey)… | Per flight leg / per traveller trip; monthly route-level aggregates | purchasable |
| reviews & sentiment | Review platforms (TripAdvisor, Trustpilot, Google, HolidayCheck, Feefo), operators' own post-trip surveys | Per review, per property/tour/departure | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Tour operators (TUI, Jet2holidays), OTAs and reservation platforms, GDS/tour-operator booking systems (Amadeus, Travelport, TravelStudio)… | Per booking/passenger name record, aggregated to weekly departure-date cohorts | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Tour operators' contracting teams, bedbanks and destination management companies (Hotelbeds, WebBeds), charter seat consolidators | Per contracted allotment: hotel, room type, season, release date; per charter… | partnership |
| incident/safety/claims | Travel insurers and assistance companies, operators' health & safety teams, foreign-ministry consular services, regulators handling… | Per incident/claim, per trip; aggregated annual regulator reports | partnership |
| weather-dependent metrics | Operators' revenue-management teams combining meteorological feeds with booking curves; weather data vendors; tourism boards | Daily destination weather joined to daily booking volumes | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Tour operators, charter airlines and consolidators, hotel contracting departments, national tourism boards, industry associations (DRV… | Load factor / allotment take-up per departure, per hotel contract, per week… | partnership |
| customer demographics | Tour operators' CRM databases, loyalty programmes, retail travel agency chains, national statistical offices (outbound travel surveys) | Per customer/booking party (age, origin postcode, party composition)… | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | Operators' marketing departments, ad platforms (Google, Meta), affiliate networks, metasearch partners | Per campaign/keyword/day, with booking attribution | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Operators' hotel-audit teams and third-party auditors (Check Safety First, Preverisk), sustainability certifiers (Travelife, GSTC) | Per property audit, annual or semi-annual | partnership |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.