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Record Year for Scots Coach Tours

29th April 1949, Page 12
29th April 1949
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Page 12, 29th April 1949 — Record Year for Scots Coach Tours
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riESPITE fuel restrictions, advance L./bookings placed with the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., for tours and private hire indicate that 1949 is going to be a record Scottish tourist season. Mr. James Amos, general manager of the company, stated that Scottish day and extended-tour bookings from Edinburgh and London were well ahead of the figure at this time last year.

Nearly 100,000 meals had already been booked at Scottish hotels and restaurants for private-hire parties alone during the coming season, a new record for the company.

Increased advertising in England and abroad, particularly in the U.S.A.',:was bringing satisfactory results. Ovet 350,000 pieces of literature on tour, were being distributed this year.

The company's tours programme includes 15 departures per weekfrom London on Scottish tours varying from 6 to 16 days; IS departures weekly from Edinburgh on tours of 3 to F days; and three departures weekly from Edinburgh on a special extended toil/

exploring the Highlands.

The programme also allows for 3( departures daily from Edinburgh on day and afternoon tours, giving a minimum capacity of 1,000 seats per day and a maximum, with the available duplication,of 3,500 per day.

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People: James Amos
Locations: Edinburgh, London

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