Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1065550 | Transport Policy | 2007 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
A review of tourism policy documents reveals three key objectives: environmental, social and economic sustainability. This paper examines the role of scheduled buses in meeting these objectives, using data from a large survey of bus passengers in rural tourist destinations. It finds that buses achieve modest modal shift from cars, allow access to the countryside for people without cars and generate spending in local economies. It suggests how these functions could be improved by market-segmentation, better publicity and service delivery and questions why many such services struggle for funding each year.
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Authors
Jo Guiver, Les Lumsdon, Richard Weston, Maggie Ferguson,