Travel Channel International Limited (abbr. TCI) is a commercial television broadcasting company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The company operates travel-themed television channels in the EMEA regions and Asia Pacific, spanning 21 on-air languages, under the Travel Channel brand. Despite the name, it had no relation with the American television channel of the same name, until the company was acquired in May 2012 by Scripps Networks Interactive in Knoxville, United States, which acquired the American channel in 2009.