Disclaimer

Last reviewed 20 September 2026.

What this site is

tmcmatch.co.uk is an independent publisher of buyer-side guidance on business travel management in the United Kingdom, and an advertising medium for travel management companies. It is operated as a commercial publication.

What this site is not

tmcmatch.co.uk is not a travel management company, a travel agent or a tour operator. It does not sell, book, arrange or take payment for travel of any kind, it holds no client money, and it holds no ATOL. The prohibition in regulation 9(1) of the Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers' Licensing) Regulations 2012 applies to a person who “makes available flight accommodation”; this site does not do that, and so needs no ATOL. It is not a member of ABTA and holds no IATA accreditation, because none of those apply to what it does.

Nothing on this site is procurement advice, legal advice, tax advice, health and safety advice or financial advice, and nothing on it is a substitute for taking advice on your own facts. The pages describe how the rules are written and what to ask; they cannot tell you what is right for your organisation.

How this site is funded, in full

The only payment tmcmatch.co.uk accepts is a fixed advertising fee for each enquiry passed to a travel management company, agreed with that company in advance. It cannot vary with the size of any contract that follows, with whether any contract follows at all, with anything a supplier charges you, or with any commission or supplier income a supplier earns on your bookings. We receive nothing at all from you.

We do not rank, score or recommend suppliers, we do not operate a shortlisting or matching service, and we do not publish reviews, ratings or awards. Enquiries are passed only to travel management companies that have agreed to those terms, without independent review by this site, and this site does not attempt to identify the “right” supplier for you. Any assessment of whether a supplier suits your organisation is yours to make, which is why every criterion on this site is published with a route to verifying the answer yourself.

What happens to what you send

Details submitted through a form on this site are passed to no more than three travel management companies, and only to companies that have agreed to the terms above and are taking enquiries like yours, so that they can contact you about the requirement you described. Each may contact you once about it. If no such company is taking enquiries, we pass your details to no one, nobody will call, and you can ask us to delete them. We do not sell, rent, publish or otherwise disclose those details to anyone else, and we do not add anyone to a marketing list.

Consent is not a condition of anything. Every page, table, diagram and template on this site is free to read and use without sending anything. You can withdraw consent at any time by replying to any message you receive or by writing to contact@tmcmatch.co.uk.

On the point of law: the Information Commissioner's Office takes the position that the electronic mail marketing rule in regulation 22 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations does not apply to corporate subscribers, but that an email to a named individual at a company may still be to an individual subscriber. We therefore take consent from everyone rather than relying on the corporate-subscriber position.

Accuracy, dates and corrections

Every figure and quoted provision on this site carries the source it was read from and the year or tax year it belongs to. Rates change: Air Passenger Duty is uprated annually and the rates published here are the ones in force from 1 April 2026. Regulations are amended. A figure quoted here against a later year may be wrong for that year, and the date on each page is the date its sources were last read end to end.

If you believe something on this site is wrong, write to contact@tmcmatch.co.uk with the page and the source you think it conflicts with, and it will be checked against the primary source and corrected or removed.

External links

Links to legislation.gov.uk, GOV.UK, the Civil Aviation Authority, ABTA, IATA, the ONS and Companies House are provided so that you can read the source rather than our summary of it. We are not responsible for the content of external sites and the links imply no relationship with the organisations behind them.