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COACH OPERATORS worried about the failure national and local authorit to consult them when devis tourist management scherr Although tourism is now of Britain's biggest industr the authorities rarely ta coach operators' needs ii consideration and in so cases actively hamper th activities.
So says London Tour Coach Operators' Associat chairman Colin Smith of Sa Coaches. Mr Smith told that there is, for example, one representative fr+ LTCOA on the GLC's coe working party, yet I Association represents ope tors who run more than coaches on London-bat work.
The result has been re ricted and more expens coach parking, poor-qual parks and waiting restrictic which all hinder effich operation.
Yet the coach industry m take some of the blame its writes Noel Miltier. It I failed to promote as effectiv as it might the advantage5 the coach in handling srr groups of tourists, particule if they do not speak Englisl As a result, it has not 131 able to counter suggesti( made in a recent GLC paper tourism, which argued ti tourists should use put transport. Obvious poi which might be made inch the modern coach's effici use of space and energy and improved comrnunicati with a group of non-Engl speaking tourists throu the coach's public adch system.
• see "Winter tours in cliei colours," page 36