25 new jobs to be created as coach tour operator extends coach fleet with £2.5m investment
The exponential growth of coach tourism remains strong in Scotland with the country’s leading coach tour operator investing more than £2.5million to enhance and upgrade its coach fleet and seeking to recruit a new generation of driver-guides trained to tell ‘Scotland’s story’.
Timberbush Tours, which specialises in day and multi-day coach trips across Scotland and the North of England as well the private and corporate travel sectors, has placed orders for seventeen new coaches of varying capacity. The new vehicles, from manufacturers MAN, as well as agents BASE Coach Sales and Coachtraders are scheduled for delivery in March and early April.
The vehicles will be distributed across its three Scottish locations – Inverness, Glasgow and its Granton, Edinburgh hub.
Additionally, the company is about to embark on a recruitment drive. It is seeking to employ driver guides who will be trained by the company to enhance the visitor experience. Driver guides provide a fun and informative insight into Scotland’s historical places of interest, ancient culture, and breath-taking natural landscapes.
In total, Timberbush Tours will look to recruit and train 25 driver guides, to be based at each of its centres.
Commenting on its new investment round and recruitment strategy, Steve Spalding, CEO of Timberbush Tours, said: “We are excited to invest in new state-of-the-art vehicles to bolster our fleet and they’ll be manned by driver guides who we consider to be the best in the Scottish coach tour business.
“Our training will be intensive and rigorous in preparation for the season ahead.
“We want our customers to see the very best of Scotland narrated by driver guides who inject fun and their own personality into the experience whilst they sit back and enjoy the experience of travelling in the most environmentally advanced coaches available.”
