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This was followed in April 2005 with Wallace Arnold merging with Shearings in a £200,000,000 (equivalent to £377,194,000 in 2023) deal to become WA Shearings, claiming a 14% share of the UK coach holiday market. [1] [11] [12] In 2007 the Wallace Arnold name was dropped, with the company name simplified to Shearings Holidays. [13]
Leger started operating coach tour holidays between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, from their base in Rotherham, South Yorkshire since 1983. [3] [7] [8]The parent company, as of 2022, is Leger Shearings Group which is 70% owned by Ian and Kathleen Henry, with the remaining 30% owned by company directors, Liam Race, Andrew Oldfield and Chris Plummer.
[2] [1] Acklams subsequently expanded into providing event transport and coach tours, [4] operating over 250 "door to door" coach holidays across the United Kingdom and Europe by 2019, [5] and would acquire the operations of Kingston upon Hull-based Jim Bell Coaches in 2016 and Driffield-based BusKing in 2019. [6]
Shearings (legally Shearings Travel Limited) [1] is a coach tour operator, part of the Leger Shearings Group, based in the United Kingdom.The tour operator brand specialises in holidays including escorted tours, unescorted tours, short breaks, self-drive holidays and river cruises throughout the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Ireland and Continental Europe.
Since 2005 statistics are no longer collected for UK non-local bus services. Unlike the UK rail market, which has seen massive growth since 1996, long-distance coach travel has continued to decline (from a low base). Vehicles travelled 1.6 billion km in 1996/1997, falling slightly to 1.5 billion km in 2007/2008. [33]
Cosmos Tours was founded in the UK in 1961 by Sergio Mantegazza. The company was created to provide British customers with affordable package holidays by coach and air travel to Europe. Destinations included Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Austria by motor coach from London's Victoria station, and by flights from Southend and Lympne airports.