An independent fully licenced and bonded travel agent and tour operator trading since 1969 with a mature well travelled dedicated staff to find the right holiday for you and to ensure that you have the best possible deal for trouble free travel.

Not only Europe’s premiere organiser of bridge and bowling holidays, but a specialist for commercial travel, trade missions and arrangements to trade fairs worldwide.

The air holiday packages (or flights) shown are ATOL protected, since we hold an Air Travel Organiser's Licence granted by the Civil Aviation Authority.  Our ATOL number is ATOL 1869.  Please see our booking conditions for more information  ATOL protection extends primarily to customers who book and pay in the United Kingdom.

ATOL protection does not apply to all holiday and travel services shown on this webiste.  Please ask us to confirm what protection may apply to your booking.

As members of the International Air Transport Association (IATA 91-22606) we issue our own airline tickets and as members of the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA 32471) and there is additional protection there from the ABTA bonds and the services and standards provided by that association to ensure that travel is organised and managed to a very high standard.

As a travel agent we have dedicated staff to arrange ordinary family holidays and personal travel as well as a specialised corporate division arranging groups sponsored by UK Trade and Investment, a government department so the standard and quality of performance from Mercian has to be exceptionally high and we proudly display the symbols in the information column on the right hand side of this page the various bodies of which we are members.