1-5 days a week in office
Luxury travel platform
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Luxury travel platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
1-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Secret Escapes' mission is to enable every member to experience inspiring escapes.
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Secret Escapes' mission is to enable every member to experience inspiring escapes.
Secret Escapes operates a “members-only” site with hand-picked hotel and holiday time-limited offers. Each week it runs short ‘flash sales’ with as many as 140 sales going on at any one time, providing access to boutique experiences even to those who couldn't normally afford them.
The difference with online travel agents like Booking.com, is that Secret Escapes inspires travel by communicating great travel deals, rather than existing as a place where people visit to book trips they already have in mind. In fact, the majority of people who book through Secret Escapes say that they weren’t even planning trips to those destinations before doing so.
Like many of its travel market companions, Secret Escapes was affected by the pandemic, but survived due to an injection of investment from previously secured backers. The company smartly used the onset of mass customer service requests to better its customer service channels, and it now seems set to pursue the success it was on-course to achieve before this major upset.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
May 2020
$72.4m
SERIES E
Jul 2018
$68.5m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
This company has top investors
Founders
Alex Saint
(CEO)Started his career in marketing at Unilever before founding a travel deals company in 2005 and then Secret Escapes in 2010.
Tom Valentine
(Marketplaces CEO)Studied Psychology at Oxford before starting his career at eBay in Strategy & Business Development.
Joined as a Talent Acquisition Partner before being promoted to Head of Talent after just 2 years.