Transport provision is an important part of the travel industry. Firstly if there was no transport available nobody would be able to travel around the world and go on holidays. Also the tourism industry wouldn't make as much money as they are now. However, there are a range of transports that you can use to travel to various destinations around the world:
Road - private car, coach, taxi, bus, bicycle.
Rail - regional services, intercity routes, high speed services, steam trains.
Sea - ferries, cruise ships, barges, yachts.
Air - scheduled services, charter flights, low cost airlines, air taxis.
Road Travel:
Road travel is the most popular type of transport used by tourists in Britain. Since the 1950`s there has been a dramatic growth in car ownership. However one of the main problems is congestion and pollution in urban and rural areas, and because of this historic cities and national parks have introduced traffic control measures. For example park and ride schemes, cycle hire etc. Organisations that provide road transport are national express coach company, Shearing’s, Metro taxis in Bolton and transport for London cycle hire (Boris's bikes).
Rail Travel:
Rail travel has been under investment over many decades in Britain's rail network. The government is now investing over £60 billion to develop a bigger, better and safer railway system. Network rail maintains the infrastructure such as the tracks, signalling, bridges and tunnels. Also there are train operating companies (TOCs) who run the trains, deal with ticketing and any rail enquiries. Some examples of TOCs include Virgin Trains, GNER, Arriva trains, First Great Western etc.
Sea Travel:
Sea travel in UK tourism is dominated by the ferry companies, which operate services between the UK and Ireland, Scandinavia and the near continents e.g. France, Belgium and Netherlands. There is fierce competition on the cross channel services between ferry companies and the channel tunnel as cruising from the UK ports is growing in popularity. e.g Irish Ferries, Stena Line and P and O Ferries In 2009 1.5 million British people took a cruise. Some of the major cruise companies include Cunard, Ocean village, Thompson cruises and P and O.
Air Travel:
There has been a rapid growth in international tourism over the last 50 years and is closely linked to the growth in air travel. Deregulation of air travel has increased competition between airlines and helped to keep fares low on an expanding network of routes. Britain has a number of world class airlines e.g. British Airways, Virgin Atlantic airways, easy jet etc.
Types of air travel services:
1.) Domestic - Air travel within a country, for example a flight from Manchester to Stansted.
2.) International - Flights between different countries, for example London Heathrow to New York.
3.) Scheduled - Services that run to a published timetable (includes low cost airlines).
4.) Charter - Services linked to package holidays, where tour operators contract with an airline for a specific route for a specific reason. e.g. Newcastle to Alicante.
Road - private car, coach, taxi, bus, bicycle.
Rail - regional services, intercity routes, high speed services, steam trains.
Sea - ferries, cruise ships, barges, yachts.
Air - scheduled services, charter flights, low cost airlines, air taxis.
Road Travel:
Road travel is the most popular type of transport used by tourists in Britain. Since the 1950`s there has been a dramatic growth in car ownership. However one of the main problems is congestion and pollution in urban and rural areas, and because of this historic cities and national parks have introduced traffic control measures. For example park and ride schemes, cycle hire etc. Organisations that provide road transport are national express coach company, Shearing’s, Metro taxis in Bolton and transport for London cycle hire (Boris's bikes).
Rail Travel:
Rail travel has been under investment over many decades in Britain's rail network. The government is now investing over £60 billion to develop a bigger, better and safer railway system. Network rail maintains the infrastructure such as the tracks, signalling, bridges and tunnels. Also there are train operating companies (TOCs) who run the trains, deal with ticketing and any rail enquiries. Some examples of TOCs include Virgin Trains, GNER, Arriva trains, First Great Western etc.
Sea Travel:
Sea travel in UK tourism is dominated by the ferry companies, which operate services between the UK and Ireland, Scandinavia and the near continents e.g. France, Belgium and Netherlands. There is fierce competition on the cross channel services between ferry companies and the channel tunnel as cruising from the UK ports is growing in popularity. e.g Irish Ferries, Stena Line and P and O Ferries In 2009 1.5 million British people took a cruise. Some of the major cruise companies include Cunard, Ocean village, Thompson cruises and P and O.
Air Travel:
There has been a rapid growth in international tourism over the last 50 years and is closely linked to the growth in air travel. Deregulation of air travel has increased competition between airlines and helped to keep fares low on an expanding network of routes. Britain has a number of world class airlines e.g. British Airways, Virgin Atlantic airways, easy jet etc.
Types of air travel services:
1.) Domestic - Air travel within a country, for example a flight from Manchester to Stansted.
2.) International - Flights between different countries, for example London Heathrow to New York.
3.) Scheduled - Services that run to a published timetable (includes low cost airlines).
4.) Charter - Services linked to package holidays, where tour operators contract with an airline for a specific route for a specific reason. e.g. Newcastle to Alicante.