Did you know? Ten key facts about the coach tourism industry
Ten key facts about the coach tourism industry:
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The number of people employed in the UK ‘s bus and coach industry has increased over the past ten years, from 145,000 in 1997/98 to 173,800 in 2007/08. This covers drivers, maintenance and all staff. Source: Department for Transport
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The total number of miles travelled by passengers on buses and coaches throughout the UK has increased from 4.1 million miles in 1997/98 to 4.3 million miles in 2007/08. (Source: Department for Transport)
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The coach industry offers a range of roles including driving, customer facing (customer services assistant), operational (operations officer, planner, performance organiser), and engineering (technician, senior technician, engineering manager). Source: CareersinPassengerTransport.org
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273 million people went on a coach for leisure purposes last year while nearly seven million people spent £1.15 billion on a UK coach touring holiday.
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In addition there were 266 million day trips by coach with each passenger spending more than £50 on the trip.
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The increased popularity of London’s theatres had been helped by coach passengers who account for 10 per cent of theatre visitors.
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Coach travel is the greenest travel option in the UK today with the lowest carbon dioxide emissions per passenger per kilometre of any mode of transport.
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A coach is twice as efficient as a train, nearly four times more efficient than the car and six times more efficient than air travel.
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Coaches help cut congestion – a coach carrying 50 passengers takes the place of 20 cars on the road.
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Safety: Coaches are seven times safer per mile than a car. They each get a maintenance check every day, and a full examination every four to six weeks.