Travel firms ranked the UK's 'best companies to work for'

Travel firms have featured prominently in the recent Sunday Times survey highlighting the UK’s best companies to work for.

Three companies featured in the top 20 medium sized companies and four made the top 25 large companies.

Red Carnation Hotels was the third best company to work for in the mid category of 250 to 3,000 employees, while travel comparison site, Skyscanner, came in 5^th.

Holiday Extras was in 20^th place.

Travel agencies and tour ops also featured with Flight Centre being ranked 55^th, Hays Travel being 60^th, Kuoni getting 89^th place and Audley Travel getting 91^st.

The Lancaster Hotel was 72^nd and Parkdean Holidays were 85^th.

Bourne Leisure came 4^th in Britain’s top 25 ‘best big companies’ (3,000 plus employees), American Express came 6^th, Marriot Hotels International in 9^th place and attraction operator, Merlin Entertainments Group came 14^th.

The Sunday Times’ 16^th annual survey ranked Britain’s employers in response to feedback from their staff.

A total of 241,361 people filled out the anonymous questionnaires asking about their bosses, their working conditions and their employer’s values.