Inbound tour operator, Albion, reports that it is experiencing its best year ever, with sales currently 57% up on pre-pandemic levels. Offering UK escorted tours predominantly to the US market, the operator attributes much of the growth to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, which is driving demand to visit the UK this year. Albion is one […]
Contactless ticketing and travel software specialist, TransMach, is launching Bus Tracker. Developed in-house, Bus Tracker utilises the company’s 4G Android ticket machines to pin-point a bus’s precise location via GPS software. Its provider says it is the ‘most accurate in the industry’. As part of its service package to operators, TransMach is making its ‘Bus […]
The Go-Ahead Group has appointed Martin Dean to become Managing Director, UK Regional Bus, with responsibility for all its bus companies in the UK outside London. With more than three decades’ experience in transport, Martin is well suited to his new role and is Chairman of the industry’s trade body, the Confederation of Passenger Transport. […]
Today trade association UKinbound, which represents over 300 UK tourism businesses that service international tourists visiting the UK (inbound tourism), has released new figures for 2022, showing the industry is beginning to recover. In a March survey of its members, undertaken by Qa Research, over one in three (39%) of respondents stated that international bookings […]
FlixBus is launching a domestic service in Canada today (7 April 2022). In addition to an express route between Ottawa-Toronto, the operator is running a Niagara Falls-Toronto line including a stop in St. Catharines, as well as a more comprehensive local line with stops including Waterloo (University of Waterloo), Kitchener (Downtown), Guelph, Mississauga and Toronto. […]
One of the UK’s most innovative transport app providers says that the award of funding Bus Service Improvement Plans may be fundamentally unfair. Amid other critiques of the announced BSIP funding, Alistair Aitken, Head of Sales at UK public transport app and website provider, Passenger, commented: “The fact that less than half of Bus Service Improvement […]
First Bus, Great Western Railway (GWR) and Ticketer have collaborated to provide new electronic ticketing functionality connecting bus and rail services via a single QR code. Passengers can now purchase a rail and PlusBus ticket through their smartphone for their complete journey with First Bus and GWR for travel to and around Weston-super-Mare, using a […]
A new business strategy has been announced by the Go-Ahead Group. The plan is aimed at delivering profitable growth and a sustainable future for the business in what it describes as a dynamic market for public transport. The strategy follows a business review led by Christian Schreyer, Group Chief Executive. The company will reinstate its […]