World With all pros and cons: The return of bus trips

School bus experiment brings hope to French estates

Three sprawling estates have been part of a social experiment to improve education for children.But each morning, from Monday to Friday, they are taking part in an extraordinary social experiment.

With a screeching halt, they came to a halt, in a figurative sense. Nobody knew when and how it would go on. Now they roll again and finish since summer gradually returned to the track track.

© Andrea Warnecke / dpa tmn driving, look, listen, like to switch off sometimes: Coaches are an all-inclusive package with fixed planned schedule.

This refers to coaches who want to continue where they left off before the corona crisis. Long boomed the industry, but in the destinations, not everyone has cheered. Bus travel stood for annoying overtourism. Her participants caused stuffed old town stations, castles, cathedrals and café terraces. Many echauffierte also on the regular onslaught on breakfast buffet when the departure was already scheduled at 8:00 am and there was little time.

At least 45 people killed in bus blaze in Bulgaria

At least 45 people, including a dozen minors, were killed after a bus caught fire south of the Bulgarian capital early Tuesday morning, officials said. A cause has yet to be determined but officials believe a fire broke out on board and the bus crashed into guardrails. There were no other vehicles involved in the accident, which occurred around 2:00 am (2400 GMT) on a highway about 40 kilometres (26 miles) from Sofia, near the village of Bosnek. © Dimitar KYOSEMARLIEV There were no other vehicles involved in the accident "Of the victims ... 12 in total were under the age of 18," national police chief Stanimir Stanev said.

© Andrea Warnecke / dpa tmn revival of a classic: many coaches were on the road again this summer and fall. In coach over the burner © Jens Büttner / dpa central image / Move dpa tmn with surgical mask: the Corona hygiene rules have changed many times - this will probably be in the future.

With Trend Tours from Kriftel Hesse were in the autumn in Italy alone again more than 200 buses in operation. For bread and butter business currently includes group tours in Germany, Spain, Poland and the Netherlands, the organizer says.

For the coming year we will again Fernreisen targeted: The advance bookings for North America, South Africa, the Silk Road or Cuba, Singapore and Malaysia are already good.

all found in their old roles back © Andreas Drouve / dpa tmn bus passengers often provide large crowds - like here in front of the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

The tour guides are happy. And now are back to the same questions as before Corona: Concentrate is among the explanations on the interesting and essential? Or they move with dates and incidentals only the air in front of the mouth?

Holiday bus tragedy traumatises young nation

There is little since North Macedonia's 1991 declaration of independence to compare to this.Almost all of those who died were citizens of North Macedonia, a country of little over two million people.

© Carsten Rehder / dpa / dpa tmn bus tours are a classic - but Corona burdened the industry continues. have come

Likewise out of practice the traveler. Now they can compare the facts presented by the Guide again with the contents of their printed guide. And lodge an appeal: "Here in the band on page one hundred and thirty certain is that ..."

© Alexander Heinl / dpa tmn The advantage of a bus trip: The baggage travels on the bus wherever you go.

Rüdiger Tramsen, Managing Director of Biblical traveling from Stuttgart, looks still under construction, namely in urban and local tours: equipping all travel guests with audio systems. Why this? "To pack formation around the tour guide around to avoid."

But Corona also is of course still an issue. Starting this year, the 2G-rule in Biblical Travel incidentally, without exception. Other providers practicing this concept already.

If the boys get older

If you listen to in the industry to is plain to see that the guests have a large pent-up demand for travel. But what is it with the young in clientele from?

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In Busgruppenreisen the age structure is usually 50 plus. Are younger people in sight? In principle, yes. You will eventually get older and might belong to the clientele in the future. You have enough to wait only until individualists to herd animals are. And know the advantages of a bus trip to appreciate.

If you travel by bus, you have to worry about anything. He has chosen to be round care: Transportation, accommodations, food, opening times. Just look out the window, to participate, to listen. If the tour guides are one of those who fill their guests without ceasing with trivial facts, it switches off easy.

bus groups as a symbol of travel normality

You could say that bus groups stand as symbols of the return to normality travel. But the new beginning is not automatic. All the time it is necessary to hone the latest hygiene concepts. And to wipe vigorously at the scene: handles, armrests, headboards - everything is disinfected regularly.

for bus tour operators are the days still not as rosy as the pandemic. But not pitch black as a year ago. Setbacks and cancellations can never be excluded.

Almost 80 percent of respondents of the RDA industry barometer expect an unfavorable course of business for the next six months. The value was due to the stringent requirements corona compared to September "skyrocketed."