IoW Tours MD goes live for coaching
Isle of Wight Tours managing director Shirley Winn has just hit the airwaves on behalf of the coach tour industry in broadcasts all over the country...
‘Coaching is a leisure industry’: trade associations
Trade associations representing thousands of tourist businesses, together with the Local Government Association, have written to the Chancellor of...
Where next for coach tourism?
At its biggest conference yet, the Coach Tourism Association outlined what’s in store for European touring after Brexit. The annual event, this...
Judicial Review: DfT under pressure
The High Court has rejected a claim that the Department for Transport was operating an unlawful, non-prosecution policy with regard to Section 19...
Short Distance Exemption a potential trap, says TAS
Director of transport consultants TAS Partnership, John Taylor, has urged community transport operators (CTOs) against pursuing the Short Distance...
HCT and Section 19: here’s your answer
In our feature about HCT in relation to Section 19 licences, Dai Powell asks the question: ‘What’s the problem we are trying to solve?’ It is...
John Wales: Face to Face
John Wales is in sparkling form, bristling with enthusiasm as the new(ish) Chair of the Coach Tourism Association. He’s familiar not only with...
CTOs: the care sector, not transport sector
This could have been anticipated but CTOs are in the care sector, not the transport sector, and should have been better advised by their supporting...