.travel is an sTLD (sponsorised top level domain) i.e. a domain name reserved to an industry or a particular sector of activity.

Eligibility for this domain name is subject to a sponsor, a third-party organisation which intervenes between the registrar and the registry, in order to certify that you do in fact correspond to the sector of activity referred to by the extension.

For the .travel which is reserved to the tourist industry, there are several organisations which authenticate you and provide a UIN enabling you to register and manage your domain names in .travel. These international or regional organisations correspond more or less to the 18 sectors acknowledged as eligible for obtaining a .travel.

18 recognised sectors of the tourist industry

• Airline companies
• Amusement or theme parks
• Houses " bed 'n breakfast "
• Bus, taxi, limousine companies
• Camping
• Automobile rental companies
• Suppliers of travel reservation technology
• Convention and visitor's bureaus
• Cruise companies
• Ferries
• Hotels, Resorts, casinos
• Tourist offices
• Railway companies
• Restaurants
• Tours operators
• Travel agencies
• Medias whose theme is travel and tourism
• Associations of travellers and travel and tourism market research organizations