We're a collective of academies, instructors, retreat hosts, resorts and travelers, brought together in one place so martial artists can train anywhere and still belong somewhere.
Martial arts is everywhere. A Muay Thai camp in Thailand. A jiu-jitsu gym in Rio. A jungle mat in Costa Rica. But finding them, and planning a trip around them, has always meant doing it on your own.
MATCO connects them all. Resorts, academies, instructors and the people who train there, in one collective, with a real person helping you plan the trip.
Before MATCO, a training trip meant a dozen tabs. Camps lived on Instagram. Retreats sat on an instructor's personal site. Resorts only sold their own rooms. Transfers and excursions were somewhere else again. And the academy you train at every week had no easy way to bring its people along.
So we connected it. That's the Collective.
Four steps from "we should do a trip" to standing on the mats somewhere new.
Start with Jungle's Edge in Nosara, Costa Rica. Every destination on MATCO is a resort we've been to and trained at ourselves.
Build your own Train-cation with your dates, room and training, or join a hosted retreat with an instructor you already follow.
Send your trip and a MATCO travel advisor confirms availability and the final price. Nothing is charged until you approve it.
Show up, train, recover, surf. Your home academy stays part of the trip, and earns when its members travel.
Our resort partners pay MATCO for bringing them travelers and academy groups. That's how we're paid, so you can build your own Train-cation at the same price as booking the resort yourself, and the planning help comes with your trip.
MATCO is paid by our resort partners, not by you.
Pay the resort's own price and get a real person planning with you.
Get wholesale rates, set your own fee on top and keep what you earn.
Reach martial artists and whole academies, not just one traveler at a time.
Personal planning and support from your first question until you're home.
Stay and train at destinations MATCO works with directly.
Explore your stay, training and experiences in one place.
Pay the same price as booking directly with the resort.
We look at every place the way a martial artist would. Would we train there? Would we send our own teammates? If the answer is no, it isn't on MATCO.
Real instructors and real classes, not a mat in the corner of a hotel.
Mats, equipment and room to train hard every day.
Food that fuels training, a good bed and time to recover.
Hosts who understand martial artists and look after them.
Academies are the heart of martial arts. It's where people find their instructor, their training partners and their second family. MATCO helps academies keep that family together, on the mat at home and on the road.
Take your students abroad under your academy's name, with your instructors leading the training.
When your students travel, they're still part of your academy. Their trips start from your page.
Give your members something to train toward, and give traveling martial artists a reason to visit you.
Whether you run an academy, teach, host, own a resort or just love to train, there's a place for you here.
Want to talk first? Schedule a call or email management@matcotravel.com
