Blackpool-based specialist educational travel company Next Generation Travel, has acquired Essex-based Anglia Tours for an undisclosed sum.
Anglia Tours provides guided history tours for UK schools.
The acquisition sees the Next Generation increase its 2017/18 turnover to £17 million and annual passenger figures increasing to over 50,000.
Next Generation, which includes the WST Travel and FHT Travel brands, organises school trips throughout the UK, Continental Europe and the US.
This latest deal follows the group’s expansion in 2013, which saw it purchase FHT Travel, a Cambridgeshire-based specialist tour operator which runs trips for students in further and higher education.
Managing director Deborah Beckett said: "We are delighted to join forces and look forward to growing the business and maintaining the exceptional standards customers have come to expect from the brand."
Alain Chissel, chairman, Anglia Tours, added: "We now have in place the secure foundations for the next stage in our development, enabling us to focus on what we care about most, our customers, our staff, our suppliers, the places we visit, the stories we tell and the organisations we work with."
