Hotels and similar accommodation (SIC code 55100)
Hotels, B&Bs, guesthouses and similar paid stays file here. Holiday lets and serviced apartments go under 55201. Campsites and RV parks go under 55300.
18,707active UK companies list SIC 55100 among their codes on the public recordCompanies House · counts as of August 2026
Division 55: Accommodation
Division 55 is where places to stay register. Hotels, guest houses and B&Bs all share 55100. The holiday-let wave shows up under 55209, the usual code for serviced holiday cottages, apartments and hostels. Broader short-stay accommodation uses 55900. Caravan and camping businesses take 55300. One line trips people up, and it is about tenure. Short-stay furnished accommodation for visitors belongs here. Letting a home to tenants on an ordinary tenancy belongs in division 68. A landlord and a holiday-let operator can own similar buildings and still register quite differently.
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Who prospects SIC 55100 companies
Accommodation businesses buy all year, so a wide crowd sells to them. Channel managers and booking software vendors lead. Linen and laundry services, housekeeping and cleaning contractors, utility and insurance brokers follow. Marketing agencies pitch direct-booking websites. Accountants target holiday-let companies over furnished holiday letting rules and VAT thresholds. A new incorporation often marks a property purchase, or a move from personal to company ownership. Both are moments when owners want advice. An accommodation code plus the poor-website filter is a strong opening for anyone selling booking engines or photography.
How to read SIC 55100
SIC 55100 is a five-digit code, and the digits are not arbitrary. The first two, 55, are the division, accommodation. Add the third and you have group 551; the fourth narrows it to a class, and the fifth to the subclass, which is the level Companies House actually asks a company to pick. The whole division sits under section I, accommodation and food service, the broadest tier there is. Reading a code left to right therefore goes from a whole sector down to one activity.
More on how SIC 55100 is built
A company chooses its own codes when it incorporates and can change them on any confirmation statement. It may list up to four, and Companies House does not check whether they are right. That is why 55100 is worth reading as a claim the company made about itself rather than as a verified fact, and why the first-position and any-position counts above differ.
Measured on the August 2026 register, the busiest registered-office post towns for 55100 are London (4,011), Edinburgh (314), Glasgow (296), Birmingham (287) and Manchester (267). Those are registered-office locations, which is where the paperwork sits rather than necessarily where the work happens, so treat them as where to start looking rather than as a service area.
Using SIC 55100 as a filter
18,707 companies is 0.36 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 55100 most used of the 5 codes we track in division 55. That is the pool before any filter. Whether it is a big market for you depends on what you sell, but it is the number every other filter on this page cuts down from.
More on filtering by SIC 55100
Almost everybody who uses 55100 means it: 17,677 of 18,707 companies put it first, leaving only 1,030 carrying it as a secondary code. That makes it an unusually clean filter. You can match on the code alone and trust that the companies you get really are in this line of work.
These companies are spread out. London is the largest single cluster at 21 per cent and the top five post towns together hold only 28 per cent, so the remaining 72 per cent sits across the rest of the country. A regional filter narrows this list without gutting it, which makes it a reasonable code to work territory by territory.
In practice the code on its own is rarely the whole filter. Pair 55100 with an incorporation date to catch companies in their first months, when they are still choosing suppliers, or with a filing deadline to reach them while the year end is on their mind. A worked example for this code: 55100, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 18,707 company pool into a list you can write to in an afternoon. Add the poor-website filter if what you sell is a website, or a recent change of name if you sell signs, printing or branding. Every company you get comes with its Companies House record, a verified website and a verified email, plus the director's name when the record has one, and the ones we cannot complete are not charged.
Where SIC 55100 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE PUBLIC RECORD, AUGUST 2026
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About SIC 55100
Are Airbnb hosts filed under SIC 55100?
Rarely. Most hosts never set up a company at all. Those who do usually file 55201 (holiday letting) or 68209 (other letting). 55100 points to a more traditional hotel operation.
How big is the typical SIC 55100 hotel company?
Small. Most are independents with 5 to 50 rooms. More than 80% file as small or micro for accounts. Hotel chain entities are a separate group and usually carry extra codes.
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