About Us

Archers Direct is part of the Cosmos Holidays group, the UK's largest independent travel group and part of the award-winning international Globus group of companies which remains family owned with headquarters in Switzerland.

Our founder, Antonio Mantegazza, started his business back in 1928 with a fleet of 12 coaches which operated local excursions for European tourists around Lake Lugano. By 1950 he had expanded throughout Europe. His son and grandchildren now run what is the world's largest European coach tour operation with escorted touring programmes and holidays throughout Europe, North America and worldwide in new exciting destinations such as China (take a look at our dedicated China section!), South America and Australia.

We at Archers Direct are proud to be part of this extended family and passionate about making you, our customers, feel part of it too when you travel with us, wherever that may be.

With our worldwide buying power we offer you the very best value for money with prices which are kept even lower because you are booking direct with no travel agent commission included in the price. In fact, we are so confident that we offer the very best holiday value available that we guarantee to match the lowest available price of any identical holiday. For full details see our Archers Direct Price Pledge .

Rest assured, we look after you all the way. We have a bond lodged with major banks and insurance companies to protect your payments and cover repatriation. We are a member of ABTA (membership number V4848) and are ATOL protected by the Civil Aviation Authority (ATOL 2862).

Our people are our organisation's greatest asset. We invest in the development of knowledge, skills and motivation of our employees and encourage them in the decision-making processes to enhance the future productivity of our organisation.

On behalf of everyone at Archers Direct we look forward to welcoming you on a holiday experience of a lifetime!

Paul Jolliffe
Managing Director, Archers Direct